Is it possible to boot from Sandisk Sansa Clip ?
Hello all,
I would like to purchase a Sandisk Sansa Clip mp3 player.
I would like to format it and create partitions:
one partition: FAT32 or whatever the player needs to read music from .
a second partition: ext2 to install DSL or Puppy or Ubuntu
or whatever on.
Maybe a 3rd partition for another Linux distro.
And then install a bootloader (I plan on GRUB),
so I could also use the player as a bootable flash disk,
boot from it, and run Linux .
I want to know if anybody had tried it,
and if it works ?
Does the player still works after I took some Gigs from it
and assigned them as a Linux partition ?
Does the player remains a player after installing GRUB on its MBR ?
And if I screw up everything, can I still format everything,
return to the beginning, and have my original MP3 player again ?
If it works, then I'll buy the 8GB version and do the above.
If it doesn't work then I'll buy a smaller volume
(and cheaper) player, and also purchase a dedicated pen drive
for the Linux installation. I'll then have to compromise on 2 pieces
of equipment instead of one.
thanks in advance,
Babypeng
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