Boot from iPod!??
ghyslain (55 pencils) | Thu, 2005-12-08 14:53I just got myself a 4th gen iPod (Firewire) and i was wondering if any of you had success installing OS X on your iPod and booting on the iPod.
The reason why I'm asking this is because I would like to get [url=http://micromat.com/tt_pro_4/tt_pro_4.html]Techtool Pro[/url] and install it on my iPod. This way I could boot on the iPod to run Techtool Pro incase something bad would happend to my HD.
**And of course, still use the iPod to listen/carry music!! :P
Thanks,
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works fine booting off of an iPod. We use an iPod to image machines at work. Its only a bit slow and spotlight is annoying because it keeps trying to catalog every drive of the machines we plug it into but it works, and perfectly for what you want to do.
Also, never used Techtool but I would recommend Disk Warrior myself.
dhayn, would I need to format and/or partition the iPod before installing OSX?
I tried installing it yesterday and when the OS(Tiger) booted from the CD, I couldn't get to the iPod, it didn't mount on the desktop or show in the "available" drives to install on.
You would probably need to go into the Disk Utility in the installer and wioe the ipod clean.
Will
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I don't think the hard drives on iPods are particularly long-lasting, and I've read that booting from one is a sure way to fry it. Be careful.
I'm going to agree with phatcactus on this one, don't use it for very long if you need to.
I didn't set up ours so I'm not sure how it was done but if the installer won't let you do it you could try using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your existing install.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
I will try tonight with mine but just so we are clear, you do have the iPod set up to be used as a disk drive, right?
Thanks dhayn, but since this could damage potentialy damage the iPod, I prefer not to mess arround with this - I might just get a FW lacie d2 to do the job ;)
But if you succeed, you might want to post your method, there might be other users interested in doing this - I would put a "Warning" message saying " this might damage you iPod"
Cheers
I couldn't find my tiger disks either, I'll get around to it sometime or just ask how they did it. lacie I know will work, I've got 2 of the D2's them and do my backups to one using lacie's silverkeeper. It lets me boot from my backup fine.
one thing about those nobody ever told me and I learned the hard way was to format the drive before you use it using the zero all data option (which takes forever). This lets the computer find and mark any bad blocks on the drive instead of trying to use those blocks later and screwing up your data.
It works ok for a while but after a few weeks of doing this you will completely fry the hard drive of the ipod. AND DONT USE IT FOR A SERVER. i tried that once with my old iPod but i got a newer gen after it killed that one too. i think they hate me.
-jimmy
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