[madshaun1984]

its easier to install gparted (sudo apt-get install gparted), find your device in the gui, and format it to swap that way, then just mount the device rather than a swap file.

[vaalir]

well, ok.. tried sudo apt-get install gparted, but it did not install anything!
"gparted already installed"
"0 upgraded 0 installed 0 removed"

then i write
gparted (in terminal)
"all polling failed. only uid 0 is authorized"

also, editing the fstab, after i save it i get a gtk warning."attempting to store changes in ...... but failed......."

[madshaun1984]

ignore the gtk warning, the changes are actually saved. And use sudo gparted to format your device.

[advocatusdiaboli]

What is the fastest of the card readers of the PS3? Is there a list somewhere saying the speeds for each card reader?

[allyourbasekris]

Many thanks madshaun, the usb vfat mounting has worked. Obviously I hadn't set up my fstab correctly.

[thistleknot]

Trying to combine the 10 img files to one, any help would be appreciated.

Hi. I've finally figured out how to mount all the img files to loopback devices; however, when I used mdadm to create a raid 0 device, the partition comes up as unknown (which is what shows up if I boot to ubuntu on the ps3 with your 10 img files). So I figured I'd dd it to an img file, but if I try to boot from the one .img file in linux, it doesn't boot, something about tty and a #.

PS.

Just use gparted on a windows box to format a flash with swap, and when you boot up the ps3 with the usb swap device, it will USE IT AUTOMATICALLY!

Then use

sudo mkswap /dev/ps3vram
sudo swapon -p1 /dev/ps3vram

to get 254MB more of swap space on your ps3vram!
To make changes permanent, add the commands to sudo gedit /etc/rc.local before the "exit 0" statement.

[OEAC]

Is this ubuntu (2.5 packed and 10Go unpacked) pre-installed ? or we have to install it ?

[Dusky]

I seem to have problems with this. The video you showed is running 5 times faster as what I'm seeing. I can't even go on Mozilla Firefox. I click on it, it pops and disappears.

Help?

[madshaun1984]

Did you read the README? you likely havent created a swap device and edited your /etc/fstab as instructed in the readme (Its available both on my first post in this thread, and on the desktop of the install).

Also I forgot to remove mozilla and install a better client (firefox seems to hog to much ram, and does slow everything else right down. You'll notice a speed increase once you have closed it. I recommend you do...

sudo apt-get remove firefox

then

sudo apt-get install chrome

not sure the second cmd will work as im not 100% there is an apt package for it, but you can compile from source.)

[Dusky]

Ah, ok I see the problem now. Thank you.