BT4 Boot Loader? - PS3 situation

[mcjon3z]

I have read some forums where folks have successfully used VMWare on top of PSUbuntu to "run" Windows XP, however the posts I read indicated that RAM limitations mentioned earlier made it basically unusable. I would imagine that running BT on top of it would have a similar effect.

My personal experience in installing Kubuntu and Yellowdog on the PS3 just ended up ticking me off in terms of visuals and performance, and that was just trying to load Firefox...I found out real quick that, just because you can don't mean that you should! 'Course confirming the "can" is half of the fun, right?

[nivong]

Man if this was possible we could crack Whole World network with the power of the PS3 :P

[clevers]

Might be interesting though to see how a PS3 stacks up performance wise with password cracking. It might turn out to be a very viable solution for those who can't use cuda and own an older computer.

The PS3 has a Cell B.E which pyrit can use. There is a video of someone running pyrit on a PS3 on the pyrit blog posted recently.

[dafatman]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I could not find I way to directly install BT on the PS3, but I did emulate it in Ubuntu. Ubuntu is very slow just by itself on the PS3 because SONY forbid the use of the video memory within their Other OS function. This made the emulation of BT CRAZY slow, and not even worth it. It doesn't matter anyway, because with the last PS3 firmware update, the Other OS function has been discontinued. Thank you for all your insight, everyone.

[slackerforlife]

backtrack 4 R2 on the PS3

well there are new developments in the PS3 community and you can compile
Linux distro's to run on the PS3 via a image file using AsbestOS v1.5 and lv2-v9 patcher
can someone tell me how to do this. compile backtrack 4 R2 image for PS3.


I am shore myself on others would be willing to donate to this cause.

[aureon]

i will first donate to that project man
and i think there are smart people on this forum who can build r2 for sony easly but i dont think that is legal ,maybe im wrong