Re: PS2Linux boot disc

[bob <sfmc68%bellatlantic.net@localhost>]

Tyler Retzlaff wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:22:30AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:23:59PM +1100, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
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> > > Is the only reason you need a PS2Linux boot disc because the ps2
> > > doesn't read CD-R discs?  Or is there more to it than that?
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> > That boot disk loads a hardware abstraction layer that is needed to run NetBSD.
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> Right, but I guess my question should be more like why can't we just
> burn that stuff to a CD-R?  If say in theory the 'can't read CD-R
> discs restriction' didn't exist?
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> > Martin
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> Tyler
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hate to say it, but Sony has made very aggressive legal sounding 
statements, something about protection of copyrighted material (the 
abstraction layer or pal code in alpha speak).
Now, if we could get them to aggressively market the linux or even some 
bootable non-linux construct for BSD, we would be on the road.  Sure 
would be nice to have ps2 as a floating point resource in an alpha cluster!!
bob

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