Booting Linux off iPod

[Mike]

Originally Posted by nathanielreindl

You know, if you're willing to go that route, a bus-powered USB hard drive might do you just enough justice as an iPod would. You should be able to pick up a 20GB 2.5-inch 4200RPM Samsung drive (read: a drive with a warranty of at least 3 years) somewhere for relatively cheap, and the enclosure is something like $20-30 on top of that. Just an idea. Might even be cheaper and/or worth the little bit of extra cash even.

Heh, I just wanted the bragging rights of saying "I booted Linux off an iPod" Figuring out how to do something is half of the fun.

Here's a tutorial I found on partitioning the iPod, unfortanetly he does it via linux. So maybe I'll boot knoppix off a CD, partition my iPod, load the knoppix image on my iPod, set BIOS to go to my USB drive, and try to boot from the iPod... who knows, it might be crazy enough to work.

Tutorial (From googles cache):
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Tt8t2giTHiUJ:www.codepoetry.net/archives/2004/08/27/partitioning_the_ipod.php