iLinux

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited May 2006 in Nerdery
Guys I still need help installing Linux on my iPod Nano (2GB). I installed it twice only to find out once that it didn't boot at all, and the second time, it worked, but it wouldn't play music or videos. Please help. Thanks...

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  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Try:
    1) Posting in the right section.
    2) Not bumping your post 1.5 hours after you post. Bumping won't make people respond faster, and if anything, they may just ignore you.
  • bikerboybikerboy PA
    edited May 2006
    this is the second time you've been told that i have seen...
    1st
    i too would try to post it in the right forum...might get some more results

    bikerboy
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited May 2006
    Seriously though, I promised my friend i'd find out how to do it and do it for him, not to mention I want to do it to my own iPod. I looked on Google and stiuff but just can't find anything that works. Please and thanks.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited May 2006
    I tried to google again.. No luck...:bawling:
    Anyone???
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Let's start with some basic information. What, exactly, do you want to do? What have you already done? What isn't working?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Is the distro you're using designed to run on an iPod? You can't just pop any distribution on there and expect it to work flawlessly.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited May 2006
    I want to install Podzilla and Linux on my iPod Nano (2GB). I want to be able to play videos on it to put it simply. Here's the link I found EVERYWHERE. I installed it once (It's a simple GUI Installer), and it booted and everything worked fine, but it wouldn't play music, and the second time, I used a different installer off of a third-party website, and this time, I saw the bootup codes and all that stuff, but at the end it said "no such file: podzilla.(someextension)" So what I need is sort of a step by step guide, not necesarilly 6 pages long, even just a few words per step, on how to install it. Although I found some tutorials, al of them were for either Linux based or Apple based PCs, and the ones for windows were either outdates for the older generations of ipod, or for the regular iPod, or iPod Mini.... Thanks guys.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    According to that site the nano is not officially supported, so chances are you're going to run into trouble.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited May 2006
    Kwitko wrote:
    According to that site the nano is not officially supported, so chances are you're going to run into trouble.
    Yeah, but the thing is I got it to work once, and If you look it up on Google Video, you'll se videos of it. Also, I actually saw it in real life, although this was on the 4 GB version.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I'm not sure I can really help you since I don't have an iPod. Have you tried asking your friend with the Linux iPod how he did it and if he could help you?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited May 2006
    drasnor wrote:
    I'm not sure I can really help you since I don't have an iPod. Have you tried asking your friend with the Linux iPod how he did it and if he could help you?

    -drasnor :fold:
    No mt friend didn't do it, he wants ME to do it FOR him. I just saw it in person on my cousin's friends iPod. And at the time I didn't have an iPod, nor was I planning to get one. I'd ask him now, but he lives 700 miles away, and if I ask my cousin to ask him, well you know how older siblings are?, he's worse than that :D .
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Ok, if I were you I would go back and try the iPodLinux installer again and see if sound works this try. I noticed that iPodLinux does nightly builds so things apparently change on a daily basis.

    -drasnor :fold:
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