My experience of install Gentoo using the experimental PPC64 ps3

This is the install CD I used

http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/experi...nimal-beta.iso

Stage4 tar (64 version)

http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/experi...3_64ul.tar.bz2

Since there is already detailed instruction here, I will not repeat the full story. But I DO want to point out something that is really important, if you are following the instruction from

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=500729

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• It seems that only 10G is possible to be allocated in PS3 for other OS
• There is no need to use otheros.self if you have upgraded your PS3 to 1.6
• If there is no network connection, the booting process will be freeze at dhcp error for sometime, but i will go on in the end anyway
• When you are performing fdisk, there is something interesting
  Ultimately, you want your HDD partitioned like this

  Device Boot   Start     End   Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1        1    8584   8790000  83 Linux
/dev/sda2      8585    10239   1694720  82 Linux swap / Solaris

• But if you input +10000M as the instruction said, the start and end number is not the same as the above table. You have to input +9000M to get the same thing...

mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1

• mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1 - don't forget that it is a DOT between mkfs and ext3. I thought there was a dust on the screen and missed it, and I was in big trouble: the size of HDD is incorrect and I can not untar the tarball
• If you don't have network connection, you may want to transfer the tarball file using SD/MS. Remember to insert them at the very first, and mount them (as some threads teach you here)
• There is a HUGE problem in fstab modification: the sample fstab is VERY different from the one in the instruction webpage. They labelled some text you need to add in bold, but far from enough. Just make sure the fstab is exactly same as following (I ignored the beginning which is not important)

# .......
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs>         <mountpoint>  <type>     <opts>     <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
 /dev/sda1       /        ext3      noatime     0 1 
 /dev/sda2       none      swap      sw       0 0 
 /dev/sr0        /mnt/cdrom   iso9660     noauto,ro    0 0 
 /dev/sdc1		/mnt/memstick	auto		noauto		0 0 (60GB version only!)
 /dev/sdd1		/mnt/sd		auto		noauto		0 0 (60GB version only!)
#/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy   auto      noauto     0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc          /proc      proc      defaults    0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for 
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm           /dev/shm    tmpfs      nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0
none  /spu  spufs  default  0 0

That's all for now, please leave any comment and advice if I was incorrect.

good luck!

[js321]

how do u transfer the tar file from SD card to the gentoo folder?

edit: I have read the instruction avforums. I have solved my problem. Thanks

[lwb7590d]

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