I was trying to imagine some fun things I could do with an old 10GB Ipod classic that has been sitting around my place gathering dust so instead of taking the ipodlinux route I decided to try something different and believe it or not this old Ipod is now functioning as a USB based boot device for Knoppix live (not an OS install). So now I have an arsenal of ways to impress my unsuspecting family members over the holidays.
Here is what I did. First mounted the device (varies according to every system, which USB port etc). In my case the Ipod mounted as /dev/sdb1 -> /media/usb0. So I umount the device and then fdisk: fdisk /dev/sdb p d 1 n p 1 <series of enters> t 6 (FAT 16) a 1 p (make sure it looks right) w then mkfs on the device mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 now mount the device mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 I tried for days to create a chroot usb boot OS using syslinux and grub and because the systems the device was connecting to varied so much, I was finally forced to dig up a tool that does all the work for you and I must say it is a pretty decent app called "UNetbootin" at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/. Once you download the Linux binary, locate the file where you downloaded it do and make it executable (chmod 700 unetbootin-linux-377) and then start the app and you should get a minimal gui that allows you to choose what build to install and to what device. There are a couple of dependencies for this application to work (mtools and p7zip-full). Download the most recent Knoppix .iso and then point the iso location in the app to the Knoppix .iso recently downloaded. Now simply connect up the Ipod to USB, reboot your system and choose to boot from USB and wait for your friends to cheer you on with golf style applause. ~ Jen _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
