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Install OSx86 on your iPod

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I'm not sure how useful this is, but it's got all the geek-ness we’re a fan of here. Check out this guide at Mac OS X Hints on booting your Intel Mac with your iPod. From the article…

 

Curious about how to booting your Intel iMac from either a USB2.0 iPod or an external Firewire drive? It is possible, and here's how. This has been tested with a 5G 30GB USB2.0 iPod with Video and an external FW400 60GB hard disk enclosure.

 

The key issue is the disk partioning scheme that Intel Macs expect to see. GPT (or GUID), remember? Well it appears that the EFI in an Intel iMac also supports booting from Apple Partition Map (APM) partitioned disks as well. The Intel iMac's Install DVD Disk One, for instance, uses an APM and NOT a GPT scheme.

 

I vote that the new Slashdot joke be “Yeah, but does it run OSx86?” Linux is SO 1990’s… :D

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SUBMarcos

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Do you mind in telling me the advantages of it please? please use non technical language becasue that is what I did not get.

Eggman

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I suppose it could be used the same way Damn Small Linux is used on a USB thumb drive. You could use it to boot an Intel Mac on another computer without installing it first. Pretty useless, in my opinion, but still cool! :whistle:

EdFlyer

EdFlyer 0

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definitely, i like the idea for the new slashdot joke.

KENNYB

KENNYB 0

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One of the coolest things you could do on a Mac was boot using firewire target disk mode. Good to see it coming back. You could plug a firewire cable from one mac to another, and be able to see the other's hard drive on your hard drive. It's been a long time since i've done it, but it's always been one the coolest things you could do on a mac.

Mr. Bond

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And you got me excited for a actual OSx86 running on an iPod. :) Buut seriously, that's handy, and I know exactly what you mean KENNYB. It would be nice if ultimately, you could use the that portable install with Hackintoshes too (correct me if you can already). It wouldn't matter whether you were on a PC or Mac, as that install would be completely universal.

A Nonny Moose

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Do you mind in telling me the advantages of it please? please use non technical language becasue that is what I did not get.

 

It can function as an emergency boot/repair disk should the OS on your hard drive ever get fried


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