New PS3Grid Pen drive ISO image? When?

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WallyWallWhackr Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 20 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 763 - Posted: 19 Jan 2008 \| 3:56:07 UTC
	It\'s right there in the title. When are you guys going to fix the pen drive so it no longer has the new firmware issue? Also, all the new kernels use new, different partition naming conventions, and are also better optimized for the cell CPU, so it would make for faster crunching, and I thought that was your main goal? Granted, I can put your client into any one of my many hard drive installed distros, but that isn\'t the point. Please advise as to the timeline for any new advancements in your realm as I would like to become involved, and would like said involvement to be via booting from a USB stick. Since most folks have much larger than 512MB sticks, it would be wise to partition a larger stick up with a swap partition, and a partition for crunching data saves, and even the client, no? I am quite anxious to get into this, but I need the help of the PS3GRID folks to facilitate it. Sincerely, Wally
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zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 209 Credit: 4,095,161,456 RAC: 15,032,590 Level Scientific publications	Message 786 - Posted: 24 Jan 2008 \| 23:59:16 UTC
	Any news? ____________ Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 800 - Posted: 27 Jan 2008 \| 21:47:32 UTC - in response to Message 786.
	Any news? Well, we will fix the new firmware issue soon, but it is unlikely that will substitute the kernel. gdf
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WallyWallWhackr Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 20 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 803 - Posted: 29 Jan 2008 \| 0:10:09 UTC - in response to Message 800.
	Any news? Well, we will fix the new firmware issue soon, but it is unlikely that will substitute the kernel. gdf Well, reading Geoff\'s information (He is from Sony), he appears to state that the old kernels are part of the problem. It was not merely a boot loader issue, and besides, the newer kernels should perform this process faster as the cell CPU is in the kernel tree now, and it was not with the currently used kernel. I can\'t see why you wouldn\'t use the most recent kernel in goeff\'s git branch on kernel.org. The new switches included in the configurator for the kernel leads one to believe that it would easily run the client faster, and the client could probably use some updated tweaking as well toward this end. Linux on the PS3 has come a lot farther than when you guys started this thing. Anyway, the graphical kboot front end \"petitboot\" is also newly updated, and he even used the newer kernel and all that is is a boot loader.
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 830 - Posted: 11 Feb 2008 \| 19:32:04 UTC - in response to Message 803.
	Any news? Well, we will fix the new firmware issue soon, but it is unlikely that will substitute the kernel. gdf Well, reading Geoff\'s information (He is from Sony), he appears to state that the old kernels are part of the problem. It was not merely a boot loader issue, and besides, the newer kernels should perform this process faster as the cell CPU is in the kernel tree now, and it was not with the currently used kernel. I can\'t see why you wouldn\'t use the most recent kernel in goeff\'s git branch on kernel.org. The new switches included in the configurator for the kernel leads one to believe that it would easily run the client faster, and the client could probably use some updated tweaking as well toward this end. Linux on the PS3 has come a lot farther than when you guys started this thing. Anyway, the graphical kboot front end \"petitboot\" is also newly updated, and he even used the newer kernel and all that is is a boot loader. The aim of the pendrive is to have a minimal system working. We have just updated the live image with the new bootloader which works on firmware 2.10 (please post any problems). It does not seem to be slower than others. For a fully featured system we have to stick to other distributions like YDL because we do not have resources to maintain it. Best, gdf.
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Natronomonas Send message Joined: 25 Dec 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 156,080 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 1100 - Posted: 17 May 2008 \| 0:27:38 UTC - in response to Message 830.
	Are there any plans to install wireless drivers in the USB-stick version? It\'s not an option for me to use wired, and I\'d rather first try the USB version to installing YDL (which has wireless).
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