Comments on: My new project: juicyD (maybe)

By: expelledboy

expelledboy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:01:23 +0000

I had the same issue with carrying and throwing away out-of-date CDs as you! I took a different approach though..

I have a preseeded net-boot-installer that uses apt-cacher-ng to store all the needed files to save on unnecessary bandwidth. All this runs on my laptop at no cost to resources. Basically I connect the targeted computer to the same network as my laptop, boot it up and press F12. All automatic. 20 minutes later I have a fresh install.

This however only works with debian derivatives. With other OSs I have to download the iso and write a custom PXElinux entry to get the target pc to load the contents of the file and thereafter it is as if I was installing from cd..
This method is actually quite neat. For example I can load the liveCD of any respective distro off the net just to let people try out the different linux’s and decide which they like the best.

As for the comment on getting it to work on an ipod I am sure you could.. but it would be easier to get it working on a neo-freerunner. I am getting one for example to put into a UAV to control its flight patterns and send back and forth data. Pretty cool!

By: Will

Will — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:05:03 +0000

I might just have to pick one up on eBay and start hacking at it then. :)

By: cmsj

cmsj — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:47 +0000

I don’t have an ipod that could run ipodlinux, sorry :)

By: Will

Will — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:59:31 +0000

It would be really slick if you could get this to run on an iPod – it’s got USB and a good hard drive all built in, and you might even be able to use the interface to pick an ISO image. It’s probably a huge amount of hacking though, even with all the progress the iPod Linux guys have done.

iPodLinux is built on a 2.4.24 kernel, which has USB gadget support, but it doesn’t look like they’ve gotten the USB controller working.