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Message 3082 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | 10:31:11 UTC

First of all i just d/l the new firmware 2.50....
I tried to boot the pen drive version on my ps3 with no luck it just hangs at kboot:... nothing comes up when press tab either...

Anyway i got angry at this after multiple goes at the pen drive version....

sooo wat the hell i'll try the YDL...

Soooo now after installing ydl wat do i do now??? i just get to a log in promt put in Username: root...
password: ^^^^^ to what i set it and then bam it comes up with some sort of command line...

How the hell do i get onto the desktop or whatever of YDL or just simply how do i get boinc running at this point????... its bloody frustrating!!!!

and btw i'm a linux noob... but i did follow all the instructions... and i just get to this login thing then bam theres a brick wall????... wtf....

please help...
cheers guys..

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Message 3083 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | 10:53:49 UTC - in response to Message 3082.

Hi,

It seems you have installed YDL in text mode and not in the GUI mode...
But that's not really a problem. For security reasons you should not use the root account for crunching and the normal use of YDL, so the first thing would be to add a "normal" user account. To do that, log in as root, like you already did and then create a new user account with -


useradd "username"
passwd "password"


without the quotation marks, and instead of "username" and "password" you should use your desired username and password.

After that type

exit

and hit the enter key.

Now you should be at the login prompt again. Now you can login with your newly created useraccount, and then type

startx
.

This should load the GUI.

Here you can download the BOINC client for the PS3. Just download it and unpack it. Double clicking on the downloaded file should open the Archive manager automatically.

Unpack the archive to your home folder, then go to your home directory and rename the boinc_bla_bla_bla folder to boinc.

to start the boinc client open a terminal and type


cd boinc
./boinc --daemon (this starts the BOINC client and it will also run if you close the manager)
./boincmgr (and this starts the BOINC manager)


Attach to PS3RID, and that's it. ;)

If you need more help or are stuck at some point, just let us know and someone will hopefully be able to help you.

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Message 3084 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | 11:22:14 UTC - in response to Message 3083.
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Ok i got it to attach... thanks heaps for your help man...

PS3 is now crunching!!! woohoo...

Cheers...

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Message 3088 - Posted: 17 Oct 2008 | 15:26:22 UTC - in response to Message 3084.

Great! I'm glad i could help you a little bit... :-)
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