Gentoo live USB for the PlayStation 2

If you wish to test Gentoo out on the PS2 then an image is provided which is still in the alpha stage, so while it works there are still issues such as networking not fully working yet.

Please report any issues and bugs you find to here as it will speed up development.

Setup

Download image at https://archive.org/download/gentoo-ps2-liveusb-alpha1

Linux Users

Use the follow commands to write the image to a USB flash drive (currently a minimum of 8GB is required):

$ tar xvf gentoo-ps2-liveusb-alpha1.tar.xz
$ sudo dd if=gentoo-ps2-liveusb-alpha1.img of=/dev/sdX status=progress

Replace sdX with the correct name for your drive on your system i.e. /dev/sdc but make sure you write this to the correct device as dd will happily replace your main OS install with this image if you select the wrong drive.

Windows Users

Uncompress the image using 7zip and write the image to the flash drive (currently a minimum of 8GB is required) using win32diskimager.

Running

This guide assumes you already have your PS2 softmodded but if you haven't then check out this guide.

On the PS2 use your ELF launch such as wlaunchELF and navigate to the mass:// option and from there select either the NTSC or PAL elf depending on which your TV supports.

Once booted just login as root to enter the system.