[ydl-gen] yellowdog-general Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3

[Gaurav Khanna]

Kai

I have no idea why the new Blue Ray didn't work. I'm confused too.  
The drive responds, but was unable to mount anything.

Gaurav

On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:00 PM, yellowdog-general- 
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> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:21 -0600
> From: Kai Staats <kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] ydl on PS3 without optical drive
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> Gaurav,
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>> Surely it is still returnable as thePS3 has not even been out a year?
>> Anyway if it is a spare off ebay, remove the hard drive, plug it  
>> in your
>> working one and install linux on that. Then remove the drive and  
>> plug it in
>> to the broken one.
>
> Confused. If your BlueRay is broken, why did the new BlueRay not  
> work? Try
> swapping a standard CD player for the BlueRay drive.
>
> kai
>
>
>> On 02/08/07, Gaurav Khanna <gkhanna at umassd.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Any advice on how to install ydl on a PS3 that has a broken blue-ray
>>> drive? I managed to get this extra PS3 on ebay but am struggling  
>>> with
>>> installation. I figured that there must be a way to load the ydl  
>>> iso on
>>> an external USB drive or something and have the installer use those.
>>>
>>> Any tips would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Gaurav
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> GAURAV KHANNA
>>> UMass Dartmouth, Physics
>>> (508) 910 6605
>>> http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/
>>>
>>> "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright
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> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:39:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Steve Singer <ssinger_pg at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] ydl on PS3 without optical drive
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Gaurav Khanna wrote:
>
> See my experiences with this at:
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/ 
> 2007-January/021125.html
>
> I got YDL working on my PS3 without using the optical drive (my PS3  
> was
> fine, but I didn't have any way of burning the YDL DVD)
>
> If you want to use an external USB drive instead of the network  
> steps should
> be similar.
>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Any advice on how to install ydl on a PS3 that has a broken blue-ray
>> drive? I managed to get this extra PS3 on ebay but am struggling with
>> installation. I figured that there must be a way to load the ydl  
>> iso on an
>> external USB drive or something and have the installer use those.
>>
>> Any tips would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Gaurav
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> GAURAV KHANNA
>> UMass Dartmouth, Physics
>> (508) 910 6605
>> http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/
>>
>> "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright
>>
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GAURAV KHANNA
UMass Dartmouth, Physics
(508) 910 6605
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright