Before we start
- Download ubuntu-9.04-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso
- Burn ISO on CD (edit: burn cd from image, or it will not boot. Do not burn DATA CD )
- Backup your PS3 content
- Connect wireless USB keyboard and mouse to PS3
Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on PS3
- Insert cdrom
- Settings – System Settings – Install Other Os
- Default System – Other Os
- Boot from cd
- Type install and enter
- Select Keyboard
- Guided – Entire Disk
- Create user and password
- Remove cdrom
- Reboot PS3
- Login with user and password
Connect Sixaxis controller to Ubuntu on PS3
- Download Sixaxis Bluetooth Package.tar.gz and extract to desktop
- Install bluez-sxaxis-bin_powerpc.deb
- Install bluez-sixaxis_rc1.1_deb
- Applications – Accessories – Sixaxis-Gui
- Setup menu
- Setup First Connection
- Task menu
- Connect SixAxis to PC
- Press PS button on controller (if connect it keeps blinking)
Install SNES9X Emulator
- sudo apt-get install snes9express snes9x-x
- snes9express
- Load your rom and your ready to play
You now have Ubuntu 9.04 on your PS3. To switch back to PS3, open a terminal and type: sudo boot-game-os
To switch from PS3 to Ubuntu: Settings – System Settings – Default System – Other Os
Hi there, I have installed Ubunto 9.04 on my PS3 but my wireless keyboard and mouse don’t seem to respond after I log on using my username and password. They work only a few seconds after I enter username and password… then stop
Help!!
When booting the PS3 disconnect all other USB devices, like playstation eye, bluetooth headset, etc.
Or take a look at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ps3-port/+bugs
How do i get in the sudoers file so i can go back to the ps3
I installed ubuntu 9.04 on my ps3 without a problem, but the username i made has no authorization to do anything. How do I grant authorization to myself if i don’t have the authority to grant authorizations? Why don’t I have admin status?
In Linux (and Unix in general), there is a superuser named root. The Windows equivalent of root is Administrator. The superuser can do anything and everything, and thus doing daily work as the superuser can be dangerous. You could type a command incorrectly and destroy the system. Ideally, you run as a user that has only the privileges needed for the task at hand. In some cases, this is necessarily root, but most of the time it is a regular user.
By default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu. This means that you cannot login as root directly or use the su command to become the root user. However, since the root account physically exists it is still possible to run programs with root-level privileges. This is where sudo comes in – it allows authorized users (normally “Administrative” users; for further information please refer to AddUsersHowto) to run certain programs as root without having to know the root password.
This means that in the terminal you should use sudo for commands that require root privileges; simply prepend sudo to all the commands you would normally run as root. For more extensive usage examples, please see below. Similarly, when you run GUI programs that require root privileges (e.g. the network configuration applet), use graphical sudo and you will also be prompted for a password. Just remember, when sudo asks for a password, it needs YOUR USER password, and not the root account password.
i put the iso onto a usb stick how dfo i boot to that after installing other os
cheers
scotty
it looks that you guys know what your are doing..can anybody help to get BT device setup wizard to work. I am new to Ubuntu 9.04 and cannot get any BT device recognized with a Dell Inspiron 6000 running only Ubuntu 9.04. Have the following files..bluez-4.47.tar.gz.. bluez-firmware-1.2.tar.gz.bluez-hcidump-1.42.tar.gz.patch-2.6.27-mh1.gz on my desktop but have no clue if this is for Ubuntu 9.04 and if yes how the commands would be to install manually? Application add/remove I cannot find Bluez. How can I try to install and in which sequence? Win is so easy double click and there it goes but here I am stuck ..also I do not know how to check if BT on Dell has power with Ubuntu 9.04? Who can help me? sorry but I am a complete idiot with Linux.
ok can some one help me out plz. ive done everything said here. and from various other websites. when i get to the kboot menu and type “install” codes come up and seems to be ok untill the screen eaither just freezes at the last line of code on the kboot menu. or the screen just turns black and stays like that. ive also tried in stall ubuntu 9.10. and got further into the install untill i get to the step of decting cd-rom or something. i want ubuntu because it seems to be popular other wise id have to go with YDL or Feadora.
Did you burn your CD with the Alternate powerpc version? Follow the link in the post above..
Disconnect all USB drives, eyetoy, bluetooth devices. Just connect the USB keyboard and mouse.
I can get to the kboot prompt at start of installation, but when I type install and press enter the screen goes blank after a few seconds and the PS3 stops doing anything!?
I can’t even boot into gameos now!
Can you help please?!
Hİ,i tried to install ubuntu-9.04-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso
but i have read some errors like ‘zlibig’ data was corrupted,and will you install this software without a kernel?
What must i do?Reinstall the ubuntu 9.04 ?I have installed ubuntu 9.04 from ubuntu’s official site(of course ps3 version of ubuntu)
But ps3 didn’t read the disc.
admin,please help me?
Is the link dead you gave above?(ubuntu-9.04-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso)
Why i read some errors like ‘zlibig’?
The link in the post is still alive. Use a cd burning program to burn the ISO file.
Insert the Ubuntu PS3 disc before entering the Kboot menu.
Type in boot-game-os to return to your PS3.
Then, shut your PS3 down and insert the Ubuntu PS3 CD.
Once the disc is in your PS3, go to the Other OS (Kboot Menu) and hit enter on your keyboard. Don’t insert the disc at the Kboot menu or else it will not detect it.
@dplumb
Insert the Ubuntu PS3 disc before entering the Kboot menu.
Type in boot-game-os to return to your PS3.
Then, shut your PS3 down and insert the Ubuntu PS3 CD.
Once the disc is in your PS3, go to the Other OS (Kboot Menu) and hit enter on your keyboard. Don’t insert the disc at the Kboot menu or else it will not detect it.
Hi, is it possible to use bluetooth mouse&keyboardn to install Ubuntu 9.0.4?
Thanks.
I have the Ubuntu 9.04 disk I ordered from them, wiped/partitioned for the other OS, try to install and it says it can’t find the installation program even though the disk is in, and if I go to the Other OS for start up it gives me an error message saying that it can’t find an installation program, along with 3 possible reasons for the error. I’m dying here.
Hi,i have installed ubuntu 9.04 on my ps3.Now i need to install java and adobe flash player.How can i download and install them.Admin please help
Hi, thanks for the installation guide. I installed ubuntu on my PS3 and everything went well. I have a SDTV connected to the PS3 and when I now reboot Linux it will ask me for the login and password, however it will not start the graphics and stay in the terminal command. Can anyone say how to start it?
Thanks!
i used the link above and burned it to a disk, my ps3 picks it up as a data disk under video,music, pics in the xmb….but when i go to install OS, it picks up nothing. can u help me here plz
it keeps saying “no applicable installer found”
hi, I’m having a problem installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my ps3…even with the link at the top. I burned the file as a data disk and it even appears as one on the XMB under video, music, and photo. But when i go to Install OS, it keeps saying “Applicable installer not found”. Can u please help me on this.
@Brad
A DATA CD will not boot.
You must burn a CD from an image file or the disk will not boot.
When you burn the disk, try using a CD-R instead of CD-RW (or DVD-RW). I had problems with the RW disks.
@Andi
It should boot in the GUI, try startx command
@AndriySheva7
Installing Java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
Installing Flash
If you visit YouTube or some other sites, it will redirect to the Adobe Flash plugin website.
Select file with .DEB extension, then hit agree and install now button.
ok, thank you for all your help. I got ubuntu 9.04 installed successfully on my PS3 (exept for wifi-had to go to ethernet) but any way im am having problems with the terminal. When i enter ant command via sudo, it asks me for sudo password. i enter my user passwork as in the same password i use at log in screen and the only password I have at all on here and it keeps sayin not in sudofiles. can you plz help me so i can get the java and flash player working?
srry not “ant” just “a”
I too have this problem:
I can get to the kboot prompt at start of installation, but when I type install and press enter the screen goes blank after a few seconds and the PS3 stops doing anything.
How do you get to the kboot menu?
all u have to do is if u wont to get back to the ps3 system is switch it off from the back of the consel then when u switch it pack on hold the pwer button for 20 seccons till it bleeps….follow the instruction a volla it is back to the ps3 system
I downloaded from here the ubuntu file, and installed it.
Now it just returnd into Kboot.
I have read about a bug so I filled in /boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/sda1
but nothing works,
I also can’t return to my game-os
help help can’t do anything with my ps3
Have you tried tuning it off and on again with the switch on the back?
When booting hold the front button for 5 to 15 seconds until you hear a second beep. Let me know if it worked.
yes it worked and I did the total installation again and it works now. Thanks
tried installing 10.04 [I think from daily updates ubuntu]. installed then….”kernel missmatch”, then tried 8.10 [x8 nero burn], begins install then black screen heard ubuntu bootup sound yet screen still blank [using HDMI??, worked with 7.10 ubuntu if i remember right]
Am I missing something …did install otheros, then changed default to otheros and restarted typed install….ubuntu logo appeared on black screen then white circle “spinning” for a while….then ubuntu “jingle”about 20 mins later …now nothing 1 hour has passed since install started….any Ideas???
no sorry its 9.10 not 8.10 I am having probs with
Hi…Can i burn iso on a DVD???
I Can use HDMI with this ubuntu version???
I have installed KUbuntu 9.04 on my PS3. The installation was really smooth, but when I tried to install other programs like mplayer or just update KUbuntu ask me for my password but every time I enter my password give me an error of my account does not have sudo privileges. How can I add my account into sudo group. If I open the “User Manager” ask me for the password with root privileges?