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irc.gitbrew.org (ssl) #otheros - Official IRC channel for OtherOS++ support.
Video tutorials - http://gititbit.ch/tube

Necessary Initial Setup:

OtherOS Setup

Experienced Users:

Debootstrap Install

Flashing Petitboot from Linux:
1. Install ps3-utils
2. ps3-flash-util -w

Automagic Install:


Before you do anything, in GameOS run in this order:
delete_vflash6
delete_vflash6
create_vflash5
create_vflash6
delete_vlash7
create_vflash7


This will download our packaged Debian ISO, partition your newly created vflash, mount the image, unload all drivers and then boot the Debian image.
1. cd /tmp/
2. wget gititbit.ch/boot
3. chmod a+x initimg.sh
4. ./initimg.sh update
5. ./initimg.sh auto

After installing Debian...
umount /dev/ps3vflashh3
mount /dev/ps3vflashh3 /tmp/petitboot/mnt/ps3vflashh3

1. cd /tmp/petitboot/mnt/ps3vflashh3/
2. wget http://7track.org/~glevand/public/ps3linux_kernel.tar.bz2
2a. tar xvjf ps3linux_kernel.tar.bz2
3. cd /tmp/petitboot/mnt/ps3vflashh3/etc/
4. wget gititbit.ch/kboot

initimg.sh supports the following functions - ./initimg.sh $function
auto - runs all functions
update - grabs latest petitboot image and flashes it
getimg - grabs debian img
partition - creates PReP, SWAP and Rootfs
prep - mounts image, creates kboot.conf
unload - unloads all drivers
boot - boots into installer via kexec



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