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I thought someones you may wait for this tutorial. It's actually not such exciding: WinXP run slow as HELL!!! You can compare it with a pentium 1, and those who reported is runs as fast as a PIII are wrong. I have a PIII and it runs a LOT faster!
Even may i be wrong, but i don't think that there is an accelarator module on ppc(Power PC architecture)
Anyway, what you will need:
1. Your brain. It has a lot of processing power enough to understand more that your pet!
2. A PS3, Don't ask!
3. You must have already installed a Linux, Fedora or Yellow Dog Linux(YDL). If you haven't install YDL. It's the fastest distro.
4. A broadband internet connection. Well you need it actually!
5. Your original copy of Windows XP. Any version. Also Win 2000, Me might also work properly.
So you want to continue? WARNING!!! IT WILL TAKE AROUND 12 HOURS to finish all that! Why? WinXP installation takes 11.5 hours!
Maybe an hour less!
And everywhere in the tutorial remove the ""
1. Boot otherOS-LInux, change the section into GNOME and login into as root(use root as username).
2. Download therepos.zip from here and tranfer it on the ps3 as you like.
Decompress it, and copy all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Overwrite if nessesary. You can also use "yum update" in the terminal, but it will just take a lot of time, so just copy the files(repositories).
3.Open up the terminal(at the top bar: Appilications>>Terminal)
4. Write "yum install qemu" with out the "" and press ENTER
5. After sometime it will ask you about downloading some files. Write "y" and press ENTER.(that mean yes!)
6. After it's finished, put your winXP cd into the ps3 drive. Open up, "Computer"(click the computer icon at the desktop, and double click the cd-rom drive.
7. Take a look at the desktop. Know the cd is mounted and an icon pf the cd will appear. Right click it and select Copy Disk...A dialog box will appear, press Write, and save it as "WINXP.iso" in the Desktop.
8. After it's finished the copy a new file named "WINXP.iso" in your Desktop will appear! Return to the Terminal and close all other applications as we will need a lot of cpu power. Then copy-paste or write "qemu-img create win2.img 2048M" in the terminal and press ENTER. 2gb are enough for a WinXP installation.
9. Then write: "qemu -hda win.img -cdrom /root/Desktop/WINXP.iso -std-vga -boot d" and press ENTER. Continue the installation my your self and install the winXP. when you promped to create a new partition you can format it in nfts. Note: it's an image file ur formating not your disk:P!
10. This installation will take a lot of time. Keep an eye on the installation and turn off the f***ing screensaver. If you don't and it's activated...ur screen gets black and u f***ed up urself. To do this go: System>>Preferences>>Screensaver and uncheck the "Activate screensaver...." box.
11. After you have finished and everytime you start, you can use: "qemu -hda win.img -cdrom /path/to/YOUR.iso -std-vga -boot c" This way you save 5 secs from the propting "boot from this disk" bios message, and you can also mount an image for the winxp enviroment.
For more features on boot, type "qemu" in the terminal and see the other features. Just add them in the "qemu -hda win.img -cdrom /path/to/YOUR.iso -std-vga -boot c".
I hoped i wrote well! Enjoy the images! Attached!
Also don't get weird coz i posted this and in ps3news.com ST0RM53=KaZuyA=3KaZuyA=Snake=Snakecy
my nicknames so far!![]()
The repos(theperos.zip):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mybnz6
press right click >> view image to see the images in there native res.


Last edited by KaZuyA (2007-05-31 19:36:54)
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has ne1 tried tinyxp with this?

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I heard its still slow,infact slower than linux with no hardware support n all.
Thanks for the tutorial also,good work. ![]()
Last edited by Ion (2007-07-16 20:49:35)
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Is it possible to take this one step further and run PC games on a PS3
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yea its possible but it would be incredibly sloW!
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hmm thinking about windows xp being super slow got me thinking....
im not sure about this i think that u could of installed windows 98 on xbox 1 and it worked pretty nicely, so if u installed windows 98 on ps3 would it work as nice or be slow
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lildesiikid wrote:
hmm thinking about windows xp being super slow got me thinking....
im not sure about this i think that u could of installed windows 98 on xbox 1 and it worked pretty nicely, so if u installed windows 98 on ps3 would it work as nice or be slow
Slow,no hardware support because Sony doesnt like sharing with linux that much apparently.But Im just predicting here,I have never used it before so if anyone has tell us how good it is.
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yeah i never tried linux b4 to and i got everything ready to go except i need a keyboard and a mouse for my ps3 to install linux
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the therepos.zip download is no longer available, anyone have this file so i can try this because i prefer windows & would like to try it on my PS3 linux
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Pooky - Just Type "yum update" with out the quotes in terminal.

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nickb827 wrote:
Pooky - Just Type "yum update" with out the quotes in terminal.
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Wow, well thats alot easier.. theres a new trick. ![]()
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yea that's how Linux works. Pretty sweet. Drop Windows. It's gay.
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cool tut
now if it just ran faster
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