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You need to reformat the entire HDD from the consoles Recovery menu because it doesnt have any free partitions that arent encrypted, and the firmware u are on needs to have a specific patch. You would need to install original otheros++ on 3.55, or install evilnats 4.89.3 CFW which also has that...

Doesnt Evilnats Firmware have the patches to format the hdd for otheros? It definitely had them on 4.89 or 4.90 (its been a while i did something with my ps3)

I think the normal oos doesnt have that much access than oos++ does because oos+ includes much more patches than regular oos, maybe he should install oos++ and something like red ribbon or t2 where all patches are implemented

i did that once, but with ubuntu. Used this script https://github.com/nevik-xx/ps3-debian and modified it to fit my system/replaced debootstrap url to some dir here https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/xubuntu/ports/releases/10.04/release/ but it didnt quite work well as it is pretty old...

Also there is some old versions of petitboot here: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/ Or here: https://github.com/2xsaiko/PS3-OtherOS

You can cross compile a otheros.bld image with the ps3_petitboot_defconfig from geoffs kernel: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux/+/refs/heads/master I used the ppc64-gcc that ubuntu/debian provides: Ubuntu...

Regarding the seperate hdd there is a old oos++ 3.55 firmware somehere which partitions like 80% or more of the drive for oos, idk bout swapping them though

Also the old petitboot image everyone is using has some issues booting newer kernels, and graf_chokolo, original dev of oos++, has turned the otheros.bld you get from compiling geoffs kernel with ps3_petitboot_defconfig into a bin file

https://github.com/2xsaiko/PS3-OtherOS Also for ubuntu you have to debootstrap it on oos++, as the provided old iso images cannot see ps3dd. Compiling a kernel natively is gonna take hours to days, finding the correct cross-compile toolchain for older kernels is hell, precompiled kernels could...

I did the same with a debootstrapped ubuntu install a while ago, debootstarpped because oos++ has a different partition style for installing on hdd than normal oos (ps3dd on oos++; ps3da on oos) Which fucks up the normal installers

Idk, never had that occuring to me, but there was a pkg that removed petitboot from nand/vflash region 5 and made recovery mode work normally, maybe try that: https://github.com/2xsaiko/PS3-OtherOS

Maybe the guy from PS3LINUX.net knows more, hes also using the official otheros with his fedora installation

Weel, that complicates things...

Also do you have a nand or nor models because there is some homebrew allowing you to resize vflash region 5 for otheros

Also there was a kernel abi breakage in kernel of petitboot affecting kexec so you cant boot some newer kernels, thats why i wanted to compile newer petitboot for slim. Youre using a fat model, so this might work...