booting dsl on ipod shuffle (fat32)

Forum: USB booting
Topic: booting dsl on ipod shuffle (fat32)
started by: hallodslipod

Posted by hallodslipod on Mar. 14 2006,01:06

Hi,
got dsl working on an Apple iPod shuffle mp3 player. works just fine, I really impressed.

But is it possible to use the ipod as a music player/data storage AND a bootable USB stick at the same time?

The standard usb-installation from the live-cd gives a fat16 filesystem. I believe the iPod shuffle's standard is fat32

Anybody got a hint how to do it?
Found a good idea on < http://cool-stuff-or-not.blogspot.com/2005....ol.html >

but I'm not experienced enough to do this. (especially with grub)

thanks,

n.

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 14 2006,06:33

Last I knew, the DSL USB bootloader, called SYSLINUX, did not work on FAT32 partitions, only regular FAT ones.

So it is likely that you would need to use something like GRUB to do your bootloading of DSL from a FAT32 USB device like a Shuffle. It should be do-able, but would require manual configuration.

Posted by mogen317 on April 03 2006,16:51

I'm interested in this too. Another solution, although you might waste a few megabytes is to create a 50mb partition for DSL. Hopefully this might stop itunes from eraseing DSL when you click add songs.

Posted by mogen317 on April 04 2006,20:44

check out my topic: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....592;r=1 >