Help installing Blackrhino Linux on HDD

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-16-2011,01:46 PM

I would like to do a HDD install of Blackrhino. There are several ways I have tried to do this:

1. I tried using da5eber's installer, but it wouldn't detect my USB keyboard.

2. I tried using a tutorial from kernelloader, but I'm unsure of what commands to type in and the order of which to use them once I reach the command prompt.

3. I tried running xterm after a liveCD launch. However, I'm still unsure of what commands to use and where I should start.

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-16-2011,09:02 PM

I tried again using xterm from the LiveCD.

I managed to put 2 partitions on the hard disc, the problem is I can't format them.

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-16-2011,09:06 PM

**deba5er** · 08-17-2011,09:49 PM

I spent yesterday trying a couple things to get around needing a keyboard in homebrew to use my installer. I first tried using alternate USBD.IRX and USBKB.IRX files (from games) in uLE to see if this would maybe provide better keyboard compatibility in homebrew (uLE, radshell). Instead this locked up the uLE boot, so I don't think game keyboard drivers are compatible with homebrew.

Radshell 0.8 has some bugs, one of which causes the overwrite question to appear no matter if the file exists or not. After some time I was able to get radshell 0.8 to compile using the latest ps2sdk, and merely commented out the overwrite check. Of course this means that files will be overwritten without question, but for my singular use, this is ok. I contacted radad1 to see if I could release his modified radshell, which should solve your problem and I am waiting for his answer. So hang in there, I might have a way to get the installer working for you in a day or so.

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-18-2011,09:26 PM

Thanks for your reply.

If you could get the installer to work for me, that should save me some trouble. I was thinking about getting a different USB keyboard that Radshell would detect.

Here are some other questions I have for you as well.

Will any debian lenny packages work with Blackrhino?

Is there anyway I can modify the sources list from the base image and get that to work with the installer?

**deba5er** · 08-18-2011,09:52 PM

Will any debian lenny packages work with Blackrhino?

No, only the packages from the LiveDVD or by adding this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
:
deb ftp://patriciawindt.dyndns.org/blackrhino stable main non-free contrib

Mega Man is working on a 2.6 kernel, and has a working installer for PS2-Linux 2.6 which works with debian lenny packages, but only in text mode as there are no working video drivers.

Is there anyway I can modify the sources list from the base image and get that to work with the installer?

Feel free to mount and modify the initrd file used by the installer after you've installed the basic setup. After that you can use the ancient "dselect" with the installer.

Check your PM.

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-19-2011,06:35 PM

I'm sorry. It appears I didn't get your message.

**deba5er** · 08-20-2011,10:22 AM

To receive PMs you must go under settings (upper right corner of screen), then My Account, General Settings, Private Messaging; and turn on.

**JaknHaxter13** · 08-20-2011,02:28 PM

I don't know what is wrong with my PM. I to create a new message and got this message:

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

I went to settings like you said, but everything seemed ok. After I saw this message, I didn't see my inbox or sentbox at all.

**deba5er** · 08-20-2011,09:13 PM

Try this. It is a modified radshell.elf and radshell.rsh which will not check for overwrite, and therefore will not require a keyboard to run my installer.

4shared - My 4shared - shared folder - free file sharing and storage

Go into the "test" folder and download radshell.elf and radshell.rsh

Replace the two files of the same name on your usb drive that you are using to install:
\ps2linux\install_config

Run this version radshell.elf from uLaunchELF

If your keyboard works in the LiveDVD but not with homebrew then this should work for you.

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