Whoever said that multiple personalities is a dangerous psychological condition reserved only for humans haven't held an iPod with its endless mod potential in their hands. Be able to boot your iPod as Podzilla (ucLinux for iPod), RockBox, Disc Mode and Apple OS.

The instructions below, made by foxmajik, are simple but will require a lot of patience due to repeated steps and multiple downloads and uploads. Here they are:

• Connect your iPod so it goes into Disc Mode.
• Download the Podzilla Installer.
• Run it and follow the wizard's instructions.
• Right-click on the PC Card with Green Arrow in your System Tray and Safely Remove Hardware.
• Select the USB device your iPod is on and hit Properties.
• Select your iPod and click the button to Stop it.
• Unplug your iPod and let it boot into Linux.
• Download the RockBox Installer.
• Plug in your iPod and scroll to Yes using the mouse wheel, then push Select to confirm you want to reboot into Disc Mode.
• Run the RockBox Installer and follow the wizard.
• Repeat steps 4 through 7 and let your iPod reboot.
• Plug in your iPod.
• Download iPod Application Manager and run iPod Application Manger.bat.
• Follow the wizard and select Loader Manager.
• Select whether you want to use the Latest Beta or the Stable Version (it's up to you, I chose the Beta).
• Wait for the installer to complete.
• Eject your iPod again and let it reboot.

And now your iPod is schizophrenic. Schizophrenically sweet that is.

Download: [Podzilla Installer]
Download: [iPod Application Manager]

viPodzilla is a Podzilla built from the CVS. It also includes features that are not found in the CVS.

Windows

1. Download the viPodzilla Binary to your desktop.
2. Make sure the file is named "viPodzilla.tgz" (without the quotes), otherwise the file will decompress incorrectly.
3. Open it with your archiver of choice (WinRAR is one such archiver that supports tar.gz).
4. Open My Computer, and double-click on your iPod, as to be in the root of your iPod.
5. In your archiver, select all files and drag/extract them to the root of your iPod (the window you opened above).
6. Reboot the iPod into Linux and enjoy viPodzilla.

Mac

1. Copy the new podzilla binary to /Volumes//bin/ overwriting the existing one.
2. Make sure the new binary is executable: In Terminal, do: chmod +x "/Volumes//bin/podzilla"
3. Install the graphics for connect4,keyman and snake by putting the connect4,KMData and nxsnake folder in /Volumes//
4. Install viP by putting viP in /Volumes//bin/ and put viP.conf in /Volumes//etc/

Games

• Snake (Made by Dijaconil)
• Memory (Made by Filippo Forlani)
• Stepmania (Made by

  ssteve

  (http://www.ipodlinux.org/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=905)

  )
• Connect 4 (1) (Made by Djaconil)
• DopeWars (Made by Nuno Sousa)
• Chopper (Made by Paul Hunkin)
• Wheelboard, a text input demo (Made by BlackMac)

• (1) Graphics must be installed.

• KeyMan (Made by Take)

Other

• Credits (very cool credits animation by coob)

You can get it in our iPod Download section.