Blackrhino USB install with Kernelloader

[TnA]

This is already how it works. You highlight the url in dillo, by holding down the left mouse button at the first letter, dragging right to the end and releasing the left mouse button. This loads the url into the clipboard. You then right click outside the dillo window in the fluxbox background to bring up the youtubes menu item and left click it. This runs a script which uses xclip to put the clipboard contents (url) into the python script which downloads the .flv video to the $HOME directory. The youtubes script backgrounds this operation and sleeps for 15 seconds (maybe needs more for slower usb or network boot systems), whereas the youtube script waits for the download to finish before running mplayer to play the video.

THX, good to know.
I know, how the two scripts work, but was interested in the user-handling, how to start, or download the youtube-videos.
Glad I wasn´t "off track" with my guess, that it probably could be (relative) easy/fast accomplished/finished.

The end result is two mouse clicks plus one scroll wheel use (put cursor over toolbar at bottom and scroll to switch to new workspace). That's equivalent to putting the url in a "box" and is very quick. Have you tried it?

No, I was mainly interested in some stuff, which I wrote you in the PM and had to test some other stuff too + for all bad things, my PC is infected and I need to use a "backup-solution" yet.

But as soon as your v0.8 is released, I will test it thoroughly.
If it atleast installs properly on most/all versions, this is a big step.

[Peterpan]

@ deba5er

I tested a few days the "ps2linux_usb_v0.7_1G256M32M.imz" installing on a 2 gb sandisk usb drive. It´s importend to use "quality" usb sticks (verbatim, sandisk etc). Cheap givaways usb sticks don´t work fine for me! Installing and booting is simple and pretty fast for usb 1.1. I think the image install distro with the ext3 filesystem is the easiest way for normal users with no linux background. I have the same pixel failure/glitches on my V17pal console dlanor describes. Maybe my pal console is booted in ntsc, because i can´t change the win3 and dillorc files in Home/adent, they don´t exist. I fix the resolv and interfaces files (network/ip...) in xterm with vi (pretty cool), and dillo and mms works fine for several hours (without sound). I surf the net with dillo, play with mms and my own pls list, copy files, flubox menus and so on. Sometimes dillo crashes, but i can always reboot without problems. I think the 0,8 image distro from you is the next milestone (new dillo, joymouse, sound? etc.) For me the system is stable and nearly perfect. Thx for the great stuff! I never believed i can boot linux on my slim console. My next step is try to mount a smb share you describe on "p2.nuclearfalls", but i don´t no how. SMS shares works great for me in other ps2 applications (argon and sms player).

[deba5er]

@peterpan and dlanor

I actually bought a 1GB Verbatim Store-n-go to see if it would create a slightly smaller 1GB image which would transfer to another brands 1GB device. But it turns out that I can't go back and forth between either of my 1GB USB flash drives using the USB Image Tool I use to transfer the device images. So a 1GB image will only go onto a 1GB drive of the same make (my theory for now), otherwise it will complain about size problems. This is why I recommend loading a 1GB image on a 2GB or larger drive.

For the files like win3 and dillorc, these are intended to be modified on the usb drive FAT installer directory ps2linux (partition 1) of the image, then select and load the install_slim/config.txt, select "i" for image, and it should copy the files into the proper places on your Linux ext3 filesystem on partition 3. However, manual use of vi after booting will work if you can handle NTSC. So I assume you just went straight to the select/load of the run_slim/config.txt, which skipped the important configuration step. If not, let me know as the script worked for me in tests.

locations you requested: /usr/local/bin/win3 and /home/adent/.dillo/dillorc

Although I did not load the latest dillo, I replaced the old image on ps2.nuclearfall.com with a new 1GB image - [ Verbatim will work for you dlanor ;-) ] which has the virtual keyboard, joymouse, mplayer, youtube(s) installed and on the fluxbox menu. I think it is worth the download, but without sound maybe not so much so. I asked Sarah at http://playstation2-linux.com/forum/...p?msg_id=51025 if Sony would consider releasing the RTE binaries to the PS2-Linux community but have received no response (yes it is a very long shot that Sony would do this). If you have the RTE binaries you would have sound on your Slim PSTwo in PS2-Linux. Maybe you would post a request on that thread to let her know how important this is?

Lastly, I have some further automation to make the windows share version work well. I really don't recommend it unless you like being frustrated and can modify initrd scripts. I'll get it to near production quality in a week or so. Alot of tough problems, tests ending in dead ends lately. Fortunately Mega Man has taken an interest in some of the usb testing and maybe would be able to help resolve the usb loading problem which would make Windows share boot of secondary importance. Thanks as always for feedback - I get sidetracked easily and need to have feedback to keep me on the items which people desire most.

[Peterpan]

@deba5er

Thank you for your quick replys. I can only fix the files (resolv/interface/menu) in Linux via vi. The dillorc file doesn´t exist at all in home/adent. I install exactly how you describe (change and fill with my entries install/run files and the other files(menu/dillorc/interfaces/resolv etc).
Then i booting with the slim install.txt and kloader on mc. Choose the "I" and enter because i wanted the ext.3 file System. Your new image distro on ps2.nuclearfalls works not for me! I change the values try to install and then it shows me differnet failures (kernel panic ). Btw in your new install slim.txt i have to change the root for kloader from mc to mass.

[deba5er]

@peterpan

Apologies, the new image contains the incorrect config.txt for install_slim. Using the one from ps2linux_v0.7.zip will fix this for now (simply copy over the one one the image). Using the new vmlinux_fat_and_slim_v2.gz allows me to copy the run version of the config.txt files to mc0:/kloader based upon responses during installation. I am working on this part now for v0.8.

[EJM]

Has anyone with an HDCombo Slim PS2 tried this yet to see how it works? I'm definately going to try it on mine, but first I need get a USB keyboard. I plan on looking for a USB keyboard tomorrow, I'm really excited to try this on my PS2.

Do I need a USB keyboard or is there a virtual one built in already?

[deba5er]

@EJM
The two main .bz2 files have not been updated with the virtual keyboard yet, but it is long overdue for an update. It is already placed into the usb image file on ps2.nuclearfall.com. I am trying to clean up how configurations are generated to simplify installs at the moment so the updates may have to wait a little.

[Peterpan]

@deba5er

Thank your for your help. I try it with the old 0,7 slim install txt several times ,but i can`t
get it work. I think i wait for your 0,8 distro image file.

[deba5er]

@peterpan

I uploaded the corrected image if you have the bandwidth and time to download and retry. I verified operation of mplayer, youtube script, virtual keyboard, joymouse, dillo, added some default dillo bookmarks, resized dillo for X/Y margins of 16 to not be off of the screen, fixed conky config so conky will run correctly, fixed the menu to include the virtual keyboard and youtube script. I also fixed the config.txt files which gave you the problem originally.

[peter bostwick]

Hey I have following along reading all the posts. I had two slims in the past. I have two fats know and used your .bz2 files to install with and mega mans kernels. I was suprised that the base image i downloaded from source forge worked I was able to update and install dpackeges from playstation2 linux.com using dselect. They say they are going down. and blackrhino site has not been working. Have yet got the settings right with XGSConfig file. I know this is a usb install thread but your files work on the hard drive. If at least could any one connect me with the right thread. I got dmesg to show the loaded sound driver but no sound with your xmms. Ps had a problem when i fluxbox auto config menu forgot binery . itis in usrlocal sbin. I lost file browser. I do not have kit just fmcb loading k loader thanks. sorry for grammer. Peter