The Flash/Gadget community's own Phillip Torrone posted a How-To article over at Engadget on using your fancy Apple iPod as a bootable drive. A pretty good read, but the downside is that it only seems to work with OS X, so if you don't have an Apple, then you can only look at the pretty screenshots and move along.
The article also comes with this dandy disclaimer/warning:
Before we get started, we should warn you that doing this can and will use your iPod in a way it was not intended and may severely shorten the life of your iPod. The reason is that the little iPod hard drive wasn’t meant to be a full-time operating system drive. It’s okay to boot from it from time to time, but the little drives are rated to about 20,000 hours while desktop drives are usually rated to 750,000 hours or more.
[via Engadget]
Posted by peter on August 17, 2004 at 12:18 PM