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nilss
3y ago
I did this. You could just dd a binary to the iPods drive (with some magic numbers) and the iPod would execute it on boot. Someone figured this out for older iPods already. The USB storage mode was still available so this was quite safe.
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nilss
3y ago
That was me. The iPod 4G was very similar to its predecessors. The software was stored on the internal drive, kind of like the MBR of a PC. In addition, the iPod had a mode where it would act as a regular USB storage device (or firewire). T