Install OSCAR on PlayStation3

• OSCAR 5.1
• 2 x PS3 machines or more
• USB key
• OtherOS Installer
• HDMI-DVI connector
• YellowDogLinux(YDL)5.0 (PPC) DVD
• USB Keyboard and USB mouse
• Network

• Download the OtherOS installer specially built for OSCAR
• Save it to the USB key (FAT format) and then hook it up to the PS3
• Power on PS3 on the game mode
  • Settings Menu → System Settings → A partition setting for hard disk: custom
    • 60GB = 10GB(Game) + 50GB(Linux)
  • Settings Menu → System Settings → Install Other OS
    • Click on OK to start the installation
  • Settings → System Settings → Default System and select “Other OS”

• Insert YDL5.0 DVD
• Restart PS3 to boot with Other OS
• Type in “install” at the kboot prompt
• Do the YDL5.0 installation

• Once YDL5.0 is fully installed and up, download OSCAR 5.1
• Follow the ordinary OSCAR installation instruction
  • After oscarimage is created at the oscar installation Step 4, there is one thing to modify the image manually. Just remove the systemconfig.conf file at the oscarimage built
  • At the OSCAR installation step 6. “Setup Networking…”, prepare PS3 client nodes to boot up with OtherOS like we did it on the head node PS3 at the above Step 1.

        chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage
        cd /etc/systemconfig
        mv systemconfig.conf systemconfig.conf.bak
       

• Finish up the OSCAR installation

For the updated instruction, please refer to the wiki page that I wrote on the OSCAR web site.