Jailbreaking the iPod touch

Tuesday, May 13. 2008

This is my first post from my new iPod touch. It took around 5 minutes and was surprisingly easy. Apple have really made a useable web browser on a pocket device!

Jailbreaking the 1.1.4 32gb iPod touch is so easy its hardly worth mentioning here. Still, I won't let that stop me.

If, like me you want to be able to ssh to and from your iPod then fear not, you are just a few steps away.

1 - google for the latest version of ziPhone
2 - restore your iPod to factory settings. Then close itunes.
3 - run ziPhone and click the jailbreak button
4 - sit back and let it do its thing
-this includes a couple of verbose reboots
5 - once the iPod has booted you will see the installer icon, start it and go to all packages. Here you
search for the vt100 terminal. Install the package. And we are all done.
6 - Go to the home screen and run the terminal.

Ssh to the iPod with username root, password: alpine

Yippee! UNIX with openssh!

Posted by Jonathan Cowper-Andrewes in Home at 20:10 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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