Playstation 2 PS2 Linux DVDs - For Testing

ISO images of the 2 DVDs in the Playstation 2 Linux kit for North America. These images are UNTESTED and have been posted for the PS2 hacking community to find a way to boot and install from them. The PS2 Linux kit was last produced by Sony in 2004. I have tried unsuccessfully to boot from DVD1 using Swap Magic 3.6 and a flip top case. Good luck and thanks for your help! Discussion thread to follow.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

zabadoh (2006-12-15)

Discussion thread for testing or improving these images

zabadoh (2006-12-15)

According to a different upload of the same DVDs, you need a modchip or to use the Action Replay Max exploit

childofstrings (2007-12-22)

I haven't tried it, but I have heard from someone else selling the kit that you need to hold R1 and select in order to boot on a TV screen.

hlmindustries (2008-11-24)

Why am I uploading nearly double than what im downloading? sure theres only one seed, but peers can upload data to others freely...
in other words... DONT RESTRICT UPLOAD LIMITS please!

hlmindustries (2008-11-25)

OMFG seriously!?
im getting a 1kb/s Download... OMFG

Shamanskunk (2009-01-14)

Everywhere I read if you have a Slimline model SCPH-70000 or newer it won't work! Because there's no way to configure and install it with out a hard drive!!! And no where did it mention that Usb hard drives work!

SynMonger (2012-03-23)

The original retail discs ran on kernel 2.2 which has NO support for external USB hard drives. This means that slim PS2 cannot install linux using these discs.
It also required the network/IDE adapter from the kit to be able to get online, which you need to do in order to download the kernel modules to get the modem/network/IDE adapter to work.
If you were ever able to get that far, then you could set up the blackrhino 2.4 kernel that had usb storage support.