What You Need to Know About Installing Linux on PS3
What You Need to Know About Installing Linux on PS3
Before you go ahead with the process of installing Linux on PS3, there are some things you will want to know. One of the first things you will have to do is make enough room on your game console for it, because it will take up a decent amount of space. You will need to plug in a USB keyboard/mouse and use them to go to the XMB menu. After you have confirmed that they are in full working order, you will be able to back up all of the games that you have saved thus far to a USB flash drive. This is a very important step, because you certainly don't want to lose all of the data that you accumulated from playing endless hours of PS3 games.
The second step in the process of installing Linux on PS3 involves formatting your hard drive so you will be able to install the open-source OS on it. You will want to go to "System", "Format drive", then "PS3 HDD". You will then want to go to "Custom" then
"10GB to PS3". The rest of the hard drive goes to the new OS you are putting on it. You should realize that by formatting your console's drive you are wiping off all data and it cannot be retrieved. After you have formatted the drive the console will restart and you will be able to log in with the data that is still there. Make sure you follow the last step to the letter, which is switching Linux to the default OS for your game console. This is an important step that you certainly want to get right the first time around.