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What is Disk Mode for?
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Sep 5, 2004, 11:20 AM
 
Is that what I would have to put my iPod on to say Boot from it?
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Sep 5, 2004, 06:59 PM
 
what?

Are you talking about the iPod, specifically or exclusively?

In that case, "disk mode" could be referring to having it show up as a regular disk drive on the desktop, so you can access it like a regular Firewire drive, back up files to it, etc.

You switch this function on in the iPod preferences button in iTunes.

If you access it as a regular drive, then, yes, you can install a bootable system on it.

Booting from iPod isn't necessarily recommended, though, since running an OS is a very disk-intensive operation, and iPod drives/controllers aren't really designed for it.

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Sep 5, 2004, 08:25 PM
 
why would you boot an OS from an iPod?
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Sep 5, 2004, 11:14 PM
 
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