Hello everybody, Because the tutorials from this website are dated and very complicated, I spent my afternoon making a modern tutorial on how to install Linux on the PS4. It's very detailed, but unfinished. I'm missing a lot of links that I'll add in the future. For now, you can find it on my GitHub . Thanks for everyone who's been supporting the community. Cheers!

DionKill wouldn't it be easier to install Linux on an internal drive, run gparted, connect the external drive, first partition fat32 50MB, second format to ext4, label psxitarch, have a distro on the desktop with the name "psxitarch" and one command sudo tar -xvzpf /home/ps4/Desktop/psxitarch.tar.gz -C /run/media/ps4/psxitarch but the guide is ok Qba-yakuza

Elokuba That method can work but not on every PS4 revision (Baikal system can't use the internal HDD), and it's super slow either way, but it certainly is another option, thanks for mentioning. Also I'm still gonna be updating this myself, there's a lot of stuff that's missing, like possible other distros I've definitely missed (I modified yours to fix language and a couple of things but haven't uploaded it yet), or how to update mesa drivers... A lot of stuff yeah.

I've just done a complete overhaul of my guide, at the cost of my sanity. If you want to check it out, you can find it here .

DionKill paranormal activity 😂

DionKill I was also thinking of putting it together good work

DionKill small gift https://mega.nz/file/kisU2CzZ#H0Ewgdg_tcjg7SW78JeN4_tUJ3ytAAoydAhh6b5WUgk and how to https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/enabling-zram-in-endeavouros/37746 🙂

Elokuba Hey that's awesome! I haven't thought of enabling ZRAM. Because Android already makes use of it, and honestly phones nowadays are just as fast as the PS4, it could definitely help with the fact that we have limited memory to work with. Also, I'm also going to try out this newer kernel. Thanks a lot for this! Just a little question, is there a repo for building the kernels or newer versions of Mesa? I think I found some but I'm not too sure.

Elokuba Thanks a lot man. I managed to find saya's account on some french forums I can't read and found quite a bunch of kernels hosted there. Do you know if those are the up-to-date ones? Or if there are plans for more newer kernels like crashniels' 6.15? Could I try to compile these myself?

New Linux Installation Tutorial by me

Elokuba

DionKill zram działa już z poziomu kernela piszę z telefonu sorry że po polsku

Elokuba

Elokuba only on cable

DionKill

Elokuba I used a translator, you say it works at a kernel level, which is true. I've decided to try out if using the bootargs and adding at the end the command to disable the zswap did anything but it stays enabled. I guess we'll live with that for now.

Elokuba

DionKill check this i add fix https://ps4linux.com/forums/d/304-cachyos-ps4-yakuza

Elokuba

DionKill is that what you mean?

Elokuba

Elokuba I am now doing zram and 1G swapfile support 10

DionKill

Elokuba Not really, the Arch Linux website says that ZRAM enables it's own swap called ZSWAP and that needs to be disabled, and normal Swap can stay on, at least that's what I've understood.

Elokuba

DionKill https://ps4linux.com/forums/d/304-cachyos-ps4-yakuza I edit now. That's why I left it with a little swap file support.

Hig

DionKill about on Z

DionKill Zswap is alternative for Zram, but its primarily for use in servers and desktop only. because of its nature, stored cache.

That is why i did not recommend it.
I assume all ps4 owners are a multimedia, gamer Users.

While Zram act has a Ram buffer.

But if i may suggest you can at least give the option to your guide Zram and Zswap

Elokuba

DionKill

Elokuba Nice, I see that it works better maybe? The thing is that to me it shows up as 13.77 GB of swap, where 8GB are the ones I assigned from the drive, and 6.77 GB is the size of the RAM. Does ZRAM count as normal RAM, or does it count as swap?

Elokuba

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Hig

DionKill mostly Zram show as Swap file if you retained hddswap it will combine the total amount.

To show the Zram full status.
Terminal ( zramctl )

Hig

Elokuba sorry for interrupting, for me discord is a bit slow and not accessible by all?

DionKill

Hig thanks, i've joined the discord server (link), and i think the development is going the right way, we may have a 6.15 usable kernel soon.

Hig you mean that zswap is disabled by default, and the additional swap i see is just zram? this is so confusing!

Hig

DionKill
About into newer BzImage/Kernel you can directly try to Chat Saya on discord.

Or in YouTube https://youtube.com/@saya7068?si=cwebcuC5P3jRfr4g

Send my regards tell him PeL-H1N1 😁 the that send you.

Saya he is the one. That makes my Vision on Zram for PS4, Happened. For a greater PS4Linux for all.

Hig

DionKill yes mostly zswap is disabled by default.

Here to give more specific breakdown data type this:

( swapon --show ) for static view.
( watch swapon --show ) for active view.

To exit in active view mode Ctrl + C or just close the terminal.

Elokuba

no, this is an emergency ram for process

DionKill

Elokuba damn i don't get it lmao

DionKill

Hig Yes thank you, I also checked whether zswap was enabled and it seems it's already disabled so no need to change that setting

Hig

DionKill welcome 🙂 And also thank you for updating on how to install a Linux on ps4 for everyone specially for new once into ps4linux.

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