ppietro wrote:What's your PS3 model, BTW? There's a few different hardware revisions.
I have a 60GB model.
Although my cousin, who has a 40GB model, wants me to help him install Linux on his PS3 as well.
From the "Yellow Dog Icon" in the top menu bar, select (YDL) --> Windows --> Cleanup Windows.
.... wow, I could have sworn I did this before, anyway, it worked perfectly, thanks.
Which panel are you using? wicd or Network Configuration? If you're using Wicd, Network Configuration settings have no effect. There's a separate "Automatically connect to network" pick in wicd.
Network Configuration, I didn't install anything that doesn't come on the disk yet, want to get my repos in order (my other topic) before I start updating/installing.
Wow - YDL is powerful if it stops your entire house!
Okay - let's answer your question for reals:
If you've loaded down your system with a lot of applications running at the same time - yes - this can happen. Remember - you only have 256 Megs of system RAM until swap is invoked.
Alternatively, if you're using Wireless, you may be getting disconnected and reconnected to the wireless access point. That would cause a symptom like you're describing. Does this happen with Wired connections?
And - Add/Remove software always slows down your system big time - it does a lot of hard disc access that strains the PS3. Especially after you've added
yum-protectbase - that will really slow it down.
DOH! How did I write house? Where as my brain at the time XD
Half the time I am not even running anything when trying to open an app.
It SHOULD (keyword should, if the default installer did what it said it would do) using a 500mb swap partition as well as my vram as swap.
And im actually using a wired connection, haven't even tried wireless yet.
And ouch, adding protectbase will slow it down a lot? The guides I read for setting up the repos for PS3 use recommended I install that.
Ah yes - that's an artifact of the way YDL uses Enlightenment. Since Enlightenment - the default Window Manager for YDL - doesn't have a file manager, they use Gnome's Nautilus. Unfortunately, Nautilus doesn't recognize Enlightenment's shutdown signal. So - you have to manually kill it when you log out. No harm done - just annoying.
If it really bothers you - you might be better off using Gnome. From your login screen, use the Sessions menu to select it - it is already pre-loaded on your system.
I see
Oh well, I can live with it.
How much space would installing Gnome, KDE, etc take? (though gnome was installed, strangely, it lists KDE as installed and Enlightenment as NOT installed, even though I know that Enlightenment is since im using it.... and I chose GNOME and Enlightenment (but not KDE) in the installer.)
Don't log in as root.
Seriously - you shouldn't be logging in as root for normal use anyway. Use your normal user account instead. You should have created that in the second part of the YDL install - after the reboot.
Root should be reserved for system administration operations only. You can always elevate a terminal window to root with the
su -l command.
This might not fix your issue BTW - I never did quite figure out how to fix that one myself in 6.1. But - at least I'll feel better knowing you're not logging in as root.
Also - in my clean install of 6.2, the file explorer didn't automatically open when I logged in as a normal user. But - I haven't tested too much in 6.2 yet - it's on a completely separate hard disc that I swap in my PS3.
Cheers,
Paul
I understand how dangerous it is to be root when on a normal desktop/laptop, but why is it such a big deal on a PS3?
I will mostly be using it for browsing and emulation, its not as if I will be performing credit card purchases, bank management, or anything else on it where security or people not knowing what I am doing would be important, wouldn't being root just make things easier in this case? Ubuntu on my laptop is annoying how it asks me my password every 2 seconds but I don't use the root account because I know the serious security risk that would impose on me if I did.
So why is it important that I am not root on my PS3?
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Oh by the way, one last thing, is there any way I can backup the PS3's linux partition on a FAT32 USB drive (this means that I would need to split the backup files since FAT32 has a 4GB limit, so stuff like DD is out as using it with split backups would be a pain) so if anything happens I can just restore this instead of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything? Would partimage on SystemRescueCD work? (its what I use to backup/restore my other linux and windows desktops). Since YDL created three partitions (system, os, and swap) I am not sure how I would go about this if I could. I am fairly familiar with partimage.
And finally, any experience with petitboot?
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/Would this work well with YDL on my PS3?