damn small linux on psp

[MonkeyPoo]

hey does anyone know about damn small linux? cuz want to use linux on my psp do do some mobile pen testing :cool: and would like to use dsl on the psp and run kismet and stuff.

here the thing i have my psp set to run linux, u need custom firmware and a program called bosch to emulate a pc. now i need to configure binary filas and stuff like that but umaa... im kinda lost. you can run win 95 easy but i dont want win!!! in you google it the first site that usally comes up is helpfull


its a cool project, exept i dont usdersatnd everything about linux yet so i would apreciate if somone could read up and tell me in non techie english what ineed to do.

[Re@lity]

Yellow Dog makes the PS3 *nix platform, so maybe they do something for PSP too?
Just an idea (I don't own either of them!)

[MonkeyPoo]

darn i googled it for a lil and saw from only search results that its only for the ps3. which i dont own...

[balding_parrot]

Not sure how you could have done any meaningful searching in 3 mins, including the reply.

Someone like an Administrator (who posts very little) take the time to give you their opinion on somewhere that may help with what you are trying to do, and all you can give it is a lousy 3min.

That's like saying FU, just tell me where my solution is.

[MonkeyPoo]

Not sure how you could have done any meaningful searching in 3 mins, including the reply.
well thats the thing its wasnt meaning full. just by the headlines on google, there was no metioning on runnignit on psp

anyways the psp has only 32 megs of ram, unlike the ps3.

[Re@lity]

No prob - like I said, it was only an idea. I don't own either, so have had no interest in either!
I have to agree though, it might take a little more research time!

It seemed a logical link that if Yellow Dog have an "agreement" with Sony to produce an OS for the PS3, then just *maybe* they might develop something similar for M$'s other toy - the PSP. Especially seeing as Yellow Dog have concentrated on PSP game compatibility with their PS3 OS.

Does the PSP have standard 802.11? What's the chipset?

(Have you looked at the GP2X, which is a native *nix platform. Again, it's just a vague suggestion, as it too is a handheld games platform. Although it doesn't sound like you're too familiar with cross-compiling, etc. Personally, I'd stick with the Zaurus ;) )

[balding_parrot]

No prob - like I said, it was only an idea. I don't own either, so have had no interest in either!
I have to agree though, it might take a little more research time!

It seemed a logical link that if Yellow Dog have an "agreement" with M$ to produce an OS for the PS3, then just *maybe* they might develop something similar for M$'s other toy - the PSP. Especially seeing as Yellow Dog have concentrated on PSP game compatibility with their PS3 OS.

Does the PSP have standard 802.11? What's the chipset?

(Have you looked at the GP2X, which is a native *nix platform. Again, it's just a vague suggestion, as it too is a handheld games platform. Although it doesn't sound like you're too familiar with cross-compiling, etc. Personally, I'd stick with the Zaurus ;) )

I think you mean sony ;)

[MonkeyPoo]

no yellow dog doesnt have anything to do with PSPs

and yes the psp has a wifi, its a b but i have no clue on what the hardware is.

linux cant run on the psp. the hardware isnt like a pc, but if you have one of the earlier firwares like i do, you can upgrade to a homebrew firware. from there you can run homebrew games and apps. there is an app which is called bochs. it emulates a computer, bios hard disks, cpu and so on. from bochs, you can host an OS. so get this the psp is running its firmware, which is running and application, which is running an os on an emulated computer. cool right?

but the thing is the damn config file. well this is what it is

################################################## #############
# bochsrc.txt file for DLX Linux disk image.
################################################## #############

# how much memory the emulated machine will have
megs: 8

# filename of ROM images
romimage: file=ms0:/VM/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: file=ms0:/VM/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest

# hard disk
ata0: enabled=1, ioaddr1=0x1f0, ioaddr2=0x3f0, irq=14
ata0-master: type=disk, path="ms0:/VM/hd10meg.img", cylinders=306, heads=4, spt=17

# choose the boot disk.
boot: c

# where do we send log messages?
log: ms0:/VM/bochsout.txt

# disable the mouse, since DLX is text only
mouse: enabled=0

i grabbed this one off of a tutorial on some site. this is for a diff version on linux, but i want to put dsl, so i can load it with pen testing software.

im almost geting it on right. just play with it some more.

[Re@lity]

I think you mean sony ;)

Yes, I think so too!!

./heads off to hit the "edit" button ;)

[balding_parrot]

Yes, I think so too!!

./heads off to hit the "edit" button ;)

Don't fix the quote though :p

[Re@lity]

So it's just a virtualisation app, like Parallels, VMware, Xen, etc.

Have you looked through their site?
There are many ready-rolled images of Linux, Debian, Slackware, also NetBSD, OpenBSD, among others - there's even a FreeDOS.

It sounds from your post that you're trying to customise DSL onto it, which is why I would suggest starting with a ready-rolled image of something to give you a grounding in the subject.
Why don't you just start with the small Linux image (4mb) and build on that?
If you have room, maybe go with the Slackware version, if you want it to be similar to BT.
If your main purpose is to run wireless tools, like Kismet, I would first pay great attention to the compatibility of the wireless chipset.
Do these things have USB?

[MonkeyPoo]

ok i think i found my problem for real, hahah for this whole time ive been specuutaing but not really concrete. the problem is the directroies of the bios, the thing is that i had to download the source of the bochs app and config it for myself. i was usign a genic one i got from somewhere, i dont even remeber. lol but wheni get it working ill say

theni can try to get slackware and stuff

then find out the chipset to the wireless and do all my fun activities!

[MonkeyPoo]

ok i got happy for no reason, that wasnt the problem. im thinking about quiting and starting over from the begining

[MonkeyPoo]

yessssssss i did it!

now there is one issue, the fact that the psp has no keyboard... but that is going to ok because it has IR, and i can run a home brew app to make my wireless keybard work with it! i cant wait.

for now im running DLX linux, beacaus ethat was in the tutorial, but now im going to try slackware, and also get my keybard working! lol im so excited!

[Baxter]

I'm gonna have a go too. i dont have a IR keyboard but i do have a gpsp. i wonder if that would work on dlx linux. i guess i'll find out tomorrow:cool:

[MonkeyPoo]

so baxter did it work?

i saw there was a slaware release for the psp, and i downloaded it, and it was about 600 megs! i didnt realize it was the whole damn os, i assumed since it was for the psp it was desaturated like the 4 and 10 meg linuxes, whatever... i dotn have a memory card big enough for that any ways :(

what do you mean by a gpsp? like wireless G, or typo?