Taellik wrote:Well, set the way back machine and cue the theme for <any> Indiana Jones movie..dah da dat daahhh, da da daaah
I found a PS/2 lost treasure and got my hands on a PS/2 phat Linux 1.0 kit, full inventory of the necessary hardware and the 2-disks ccomplete except the original box, but who needs a box?
How much did you pay for it?
Heh.
There's some other really useful stuff there too. I'd hurry and grab stuff off the site though. They claim they're shutting it down - in fact - it's supposed to be gone already!
Download everything! I want an archive of the entire site! Sure, mideel's HD has boot sector problems, but I bet the install's disk check would fix em. Or I could just use Junon's HD. I only have 1 PS2 that can boot that frakkin slightly non-standard RTE disc, and it has the regular PS2 HDD in it with the FFXI install on it.
I've had the PS2 Linux kit a
long time. Let me know if you have any questions. CronoCloud's a PS2 veteran, too. We first met over on playstation2-linux.com - who knew we'd end up here?
I figured more of us would, I'm surprised not to see others from the PS2 Linux days.
ppietro wrote:
You plug in the PS2 Memory Card, then boot from a PS2 DVD - like booting a game. This loads a special menu that has your standard boot, emergency boot and any other boots you create. This menu is actually on the memory card, along with the kernel(s).
And you can gzip the kernels to save space, the bootloader supports it.
So - kind of like the PS3 boot - but it requires a PS2 disc and memory card. Unlike the PS3, if you lose that disc - or scratch it beyond repair - you can't boot your Linux system. Treat that disc gently!
Guard it with you life!
Once you've booted, you can take both the disc and memory card out of the system. They are only used during booting.
Cheers,
Paul
Yep, and since the PS2 isn't a power-sucking, shiny piano black monstrosity, you can leave it on to brag about your uptimes.
Taellik wrote:Fortran on the PS2 ! Talk about retro programming, Fortran is about as retro as it gets...created in the 1950's.
Here's a pic of the IBM 704, the machine Fortran was written for...and to think it can run on a PS2 using the PS2 Linux 1.0 kit!
Yep, though it's gnu fortran and old Fortran programs may have to be modified to run on it. There's Fortran on the PS3 too, as the f95 part of GCC. G77 seems not to be installed by default, but installing
compat-gcc-34-g77 will do the trick.
Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)