Hi,

I am fairly a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu on PS3. I have bought an 80GB PS3 a fortnight back. One of the main reason to buy 'fat' PS3 was its ability to install other distros.

I have tried two distros with zero success . Jaunty freezes after splash screen and Ubuntu 8.10 freezes at splash screen. However, I get Kboot in both the distros. It should have been a fairly straight fwd. installation. Right?

Are they not stable? Which is the most stable distro? Am I missing something in these installations? Kindly guide.

P.S. Thank god for hard reset..phew!!!

After flailing around with the daily build of karmic (9.10) (which doesn't currently see the blueray drive) I installed Jaunty (9.04, ie the current actual release) on an 80G-"fat" and it worked fine. I did do this after doing an update of the ps3 itself ("3.0" with the sparkly desktop instead of just the wave) which might matter (at least some of the instructions say "do the update first") but the failures I've had have all had error messages, I haven't seen hangs...

Then mine too has those sparkly little stars. So I guess mine is an updated firmware. I think in my case the problem lies with the media (CD) I am planning to burn a new CD using a different software on a different computer.

But in the meanwhile can you please write the steps that you took to install.

Looking around the forum, a *lot* of people have had trouble with bad media, so that's definitely worth a shot (verifying the media by reading it back in another drive probably wouldn't hurt either...

As for actual install steps:

• (once back at the beginning) repartition the disk (from the ps3 menu), picking "10g for other os" and "fast". I assume this destroys stuff saved on the ps3, but I don't have anything there...
• burn a disk of ubuntu 9.04 "alternate". I used a DVD-R, rather than a CD - faster, and I had a stack of them handy
• stick it in the ps2, find "other os" under system tools, install it (apparently there are compatibility issues with different versions, so doing this each time is probably worth it even if it doesn't look necessary)
• select boot other OS, and boot now (with the CD still in the drive.)
• notice two penguins and a bunch of text, and a kboot prompt; just hit enter here... and in my case, keep hitting enter at most/all prompts until it installed...