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[Afro Thunder]

Looks like iPod fever has caught on to Big Blue. IBM has a yet unreleased iPod-based software for rescue, restore, and recovery of failed Windows PCs. I read this description of the software on Amit Singh's blog, whose group at IBM apparently created this stuff. If I understand this correctly (and I think I do), the iPod contains IBM's rescue software along with Linux. A crashed PC boots into Linux from the iPod, after which you get all kinds of rescue & restore functionality ... web browsing and all, even if the PC's drive is totally hosed. All this while the iPod keeps working normally as a music player as it would. The blog has pointers to further information, including a Windows Media demo of the thing.

From here: http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/

 

[ckohler]

Very cool. Incidentally, I've booted my Mac before using my iPod just for kicks. Works flawlessly except that the poor iPod HD tends to get kinda hot.

 

[SKluck]

It really isn't that difficult of a concept. You can break it down to a usb hdd, and many many systems can boot from USB.

 

[Joe]

nothing really special, you can do that on with a thumb drive.

i heard installing windows on a 1gb thumb drive will give you like 5 second boot times and make your computer a ton faster.

i wanna know if this is possible with windows? also what about the thumb drive failing? can you read/write/access the thumb drive limitless times?

 

[Phoenix]

I've both used my iPod to boot OSX 10.4, Linux, and run iPodLinux on my iPod. As a device its extremely versatile.

Yeah and I think I have some music on it somewhere

 

[Neo_ZX]

USB drives die when you write to them constantly.