Nano ~ ipod linux installation tutoral

[roadkill9191]

First of all I am not responsible if you leave your ipod unusable or anything

I wouldn't advise this procedure if you are not familiar with MS-DOS commands, but as I said, do it on your own risk. (its fairly easy to do ) (this was my first time evr using it nd i did fine)

Step 1.
Download this utility
(credit goes to Daniel Naggy for this handy partitioning tool).
Unzip the exe file to a easy to type path, and remember the path, once extracted rename the file to an easier name such as aes (i will use this name every time I'm refering to this tool in the tutorial).

Step 2. Prepare the necesary files:

-Download this ipl installer (it's just the 4G with updated kernel and podzilla builds).
-podzilla and start files(use the files from the zip file above).
-Apple Updater.
-HP's USB format thingy (optional) (optional)

Step 3. If your ipod holds important information, backup the ipod, this procedure will definately erase all data in the ipod.

Step 4. Kill ipodservice.exe process. (hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete, then click processer the find ipodservice, then click end processer)

Step 5.If your tried to install ipodlinux without success I would recomend you format the ipod using hp's tool, use ipod updater right after to restore normal apple firmawe and allow the ipod booting the apple firmware (do nothing after the updater is done, it should start automatically), after apple's firmware has started restart the ipod (menu + select) and enter diskmode (select + play while booting).

Step 6.Install ipodlinux, select apple firmware start and right after finishing the install, eject the ipod and start it in disk mode.

Step 7.Open a command prompt window and goto to the folder with the aes.exe file, from there type:

aes ? /info (where ? is a number starting from 1)

type this command changing the number until you find the ipod, the 4G ipod shows the following message:

aes 5 /info
EBIOS characteristics (C/H/S): 497/255/63
Total capacity: 3GB

As you can see my ipod is disk number 5, the 2GB ipod should show a similar message but displaying 1GB in capacity, the following commands are based on the fact that my ipod is disk number five please replace this number with the number of your ipod.

aes 5 /show

Should output something like this:
---------------- Hard disk 5
Primary partitions:
No ID Type Dr Label Size (MB) Boot
══ ══ ═════════════════ ══ ══════════════════════ ═════════ ════
1: 00 Empty 0
2: 0B FAT32 0 **
3: 83 Ext2/Ext3/Reiser 31
4: 00 Empty 0

aes 5 /delete:2
aes 5 /pri:3851:fat32
aes 5 /activate:1

Note: if you have the 2GB ipod you should use aes 5 /pri:1866:fat32

Now eject the ipod and start disk mode while it's booting.

Windows still won't recognize the ipod, but now it will promt you to format it, let's format the ipod, select fat32 and quick format, restart and go to disk mode after format is completed.

After the ipod has been formated the ipod won't boot(no linux, no apple), but the apple updater will recognize the ipod without major problems.


Step 8.Restore the ipod, and after restore is complete (meaning you booted from apple's firmaware at least once), restart the ipod and go to disk mode.

Install linux again after its installed, eject the ipod and go to disk mode,
copy podzilla and start files, eject, restart and boot linux (rewind).
Linux should boot fine and Windows should now recognize the ipod normally.


Note:If you experience anomalies while using the ipod under windows, just format the ipod, using just windows, not the hp tool or the ipod updater.
Good Luck.

if you need help just post nd i will deffinitly help asap
(credit is due ~ tequilaguru from the ipodlinux forums made this amazing tut)( but i fixed a little bit of the confuzing parts)

if you fail nd eather formater doesnt work Use this method

and for the video uncompression use this tutoriall

First of all I am not responsible if you leave your ipod unusable or anything
I wouldn't advise this procedure if you are not familiar with MS-DOS commands, but as I said, do it on your own risk. (its fairly easy to do ) (this was my first time evr using it nd i did fine)

Update*** for iboy-nano use this tutorial

[Starrs_Boy]

my ipod must h8 me, cause i've tried this what...18 times and it still doesn't work

[Nanohacker]

Two questions 1) What can u do with linux on your ipod and 2) is it worth all ofthat installing.... :s

well u can do like 100 things with ipl and ya its worth installing.....

[Ashex]

Here's another tutorial I found.

a iPw user was having trouble installing it and using this tutorial saved their iPod

Tutorial

HP format utility referred to in tutorial

[roadkill9191]

that is the same tutorial as mine but mine is more elabrite (explanes more) nd i have a link 2 the hp format utililty tool in my post

[Ashex]

Ah my mistake. your looked different so i assumed it wasn't the same.

Should have read a little more closely

[WIGGSIE]

i wanna no b4 i mess wif my nano wats the worst thing that could happen and when linux is on my nano will my nano still be able to store all my music and be able to play em n stuff wat im sayin will it still do all the normal nano stuff and play videos???????

WIGGSIE

[WIGGSIE]

sry bout the posting thing i havent used forums much sry bout that but i cant get the thing to work it just doesnt wanna work so ill guess ill wait for the linux thing becomes rdy for nano insted of rushin it kk thanks ne way.....

[Kingstone]

Hmm i don't get, is this tutorial for people who installed linux and ****ed up their ipod or a brand new installation?
Cause if it's brand, it sure looks like this tutorial is too long and could be trimmed easily. Like why do format so many times? what's the point... beats me.