[hellmachine]

i really want the ipod. it’s the optimal solution for someone like me me who listen to music all the time, may it work, home or in betreen....

BUT: i’m also a macuser using a mac at work, at home and in betreen

so the most interesting feature of the ipod besides listening to music is to use it as firewire device and install osx on it.

so my first question is:
has someone tried it? does the osx installer recognize the ipod volume? have u booted from it after installing?

the next question would be:
has somebody put the a copy of the users folder of osx to the ipod?
you should then be able to create a new user in osx and edit the user path via netinfo to the users folder on the ipod.
this would be great too, because at work or when visiting my parents i could plug the ipod in the mac, log out and in with my the created ipod user and so while working on a foreign system, my user experience, applications and documents would be all there!

when this does not work it is hard for me to accept the price/features aspect. i wish this will work. it will be a whole new experience moving all your important files and your personal user experience with you in your pocket!!

[sanford]

This should work. Apple's iPod FAQ notes that you can use the iPod as a FireWire boot disk; it's not supported, but it works.

i know it’s theoretical possible, but i’m very interested in facts.
apple doesn’t say which os runs. os 9 should be no problem. just drag the system folder to the ipod. but osx needs an installer. if the installer doesn’t recognize the ipod, chances are bad to get a running osx on the ipod
besides that the potential to just copy the users folder to the ipot and use netinfo to root the user path to the ipot is sweet. you work with all your prefs etc. with os 9 you have to completly boot from ipod to get your prefs running...

[zac4mac]

I tried dragging the system folder off my 9.2.1 partition onto the iPod, and it wouldn't boot.
Ran the installer for 9.1 off the CD, still won't boot from Pod.
Ran the 10.0 installer and it boots from the Pod... this is odd.
Why would it boot from 10.0 and not 9.1?

Originally posted by zac4mac:
<STRONG>I tried dragging the system folder off my 9.2.1 partition onto the iPod, and it wouldn't boot.
Ran the installer for 9.1 off the CD, still won't boot from Pod.
Ran the 10.0 installer and it boots from the Pod... this is odd.
Why would it boot from 10.0 and not 9.1?</STRONG>

I tought the iPod minimal OS requirements was OS 9.2.1 or OS X 10.1. Maybe a 9.2.1 installer CD would make it work...

[timmerk]

10.1 boots off it.

Don't have a 9.2 installer, just updaters.
Most recent full install CD's I have are 9.1 and 10.0

zack

[scarab]

Hm... I thought Mac OS X wasn't able to boot from external FireWire drives? Or is the iPod just an exception?

[edit: tried booting 10.1 from my VST FireWire drive and it works]

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: scarab ]