Ipod partitioning, Duel O/S's

mekopolis · Jun 30, 2008, 12:19 PM

wouldn't it be cool to have two O/S's on the ipod, in a partitioned environment much like you could do on a PC. you could boot either your original/legal one...or the jailbroken one

i dunno, just an idea...dont even know if it exists or not...but I am sure it will come at some point

Osarkon · Jun 30, 2008, 12:44 PM

It's been done for years, with iPod Linux. Though I don't know if it's available beyond the 5th generation of iPods.

jpseyf04 · Jul 1, 2008, 08:17 AM

i had mine dual booted until rain caused a restore. I had 2 firmwares, 1.1.2 and 1.1.4. if u want the instructions on how to do this follow this guide.

http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum...one-25447.html

be carefull though, this is very dangerous and could leave ur ipod dead.

hope i helped

-john

pete44444444 · Jul 1, 2008, 11:22 PM

I was thinking about the same thing. There is an os called damn small linux that would run perfectly on the ipod touch. The only problem is how to install it. Mabe we could install it via the installer. But idont really know.

PMB · Jul 2, 2008, 10:11 PM

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well, the actual code to support the arm processor would need to be built in, as well as the drivers for the wifi, and touch screen
it would be its own linux, and it would have to rebuild the iPod from the ground up, and totaly wipe the memory

Jun 30, 2008, 12:19 PM	#1
mekopolis macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2008	Ipod partitioning, Duel O/S's wouldn't it be cool to have two O/S's on the ipod, in a partitioned environment much like you could do on a PC. you could boot either your original/legal one...or the jailbroken one i dunno, just an idea...dont even know if it exists or not...but I am sure it will come at some point
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Jul 1, 2008, 08:17 AM	#3
jpseyf04 macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2007	theres a way!!!! i had mine dual booted until rain caused a restore. I had 2 firmwares, 1.1.2 and 1.1.4. if u want the instructions on how to do this follow this guide. http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum...one-25447.html be carefull though, this is very dangerous and could leave ur ipod dead. hope i helped -john
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Jul 2, 2008, 10:11 PM	#5
PMB macrumors 65816 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3) well, the actual code to support the arm processor would need to be built in, as well as the drivers for the wifi, and touch screen it would be its own linux, and it would have to rebuild the iPod from the ground up, and totaly wipe the memory __________________ Week 40 iPod touch, Alienware Aurura, triboot, 7, Ubuntu, OSX. Atom powered Server.
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Jun 30, 2008, 12:44 PM	#2
Osarkon macrumors 68020 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wales	It's been done for years, with iPod Linux. Though I don't know if it's available beyond the 5th generation of iPods.
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pete44444444 macrumors member Join Date: Mar 2008	I was thinking about the same thing. There is an os called damn small linux that would run perfectly on the ipod touch. The only problem is how to install it. Mabe we could install it via the installer. But idont really know.
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