Wii Linux and Hard Drive?

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 13:03

Hello everyone.

Once again (this won't have been the first time, that's the least I can say lol) I'm asking you for a little question.

So actually I heard about Linux on wii and I was interested because apparently it has no problem launching firefox (that's the only thing I'm interested in) that would let me finally watch flash videos with my wii, daillymotion...etc (since a MOD or an update for the internet channel doesn't exist.)

Anyway my problem is with installing this linux, because of an accident my SD reader is unusable, and so I'd like to know if it's possible to install and use Wii linux without an SD card using only the usb port?

thanks in advance.

Post by **TGbot** » Wed 2 May 2012 13:34

The answer is....YES!

However HDD access is a bit slower than on the sd. You'll also need a USB keyboard.

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 13:40

... YYEEEESSS! mwahahaha!

lol

^^" thanks for your reply, it made me jump!
I have the keyboard and no worries about the slowness!
now I need to figure out how to install it, I don't even know which one to pick, I need to get the wifi-compatible linux...

can someone guide me a bit?

thanks in advance!

Post by **TGbot** » Wed 2 May 2012 15:12

It's true there are a bunch of versions (distributions).

To install it, you'll need a fat32 partition on your hdd with an apps/linux folder or the name of the distro.

If you type Wii linux into Google, you should find what you're looking for.

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 15:36

Exactly, you're right, I'm doing the steps right now, I'll see what it gives (I really hope to manage to get wifi working...)
thanks for your help (:

Post by **Ayatus** » Wed 2 May 2012 15:47

You'll certainly need an ext3 partition and a swap on your hdd.
I recommend distros based on Debian.
Wifi shouldn't be a problem.

Do you already have experience with linux?

P.S.: it would be nice if you could use a different color for your posts, it strains the eyes.

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:01

that's exactly it, I'm formatting my hard drive in fat32 right now (and another partition in ntfs but that'll be for later with wbfs manager.)

Uh, swap? I don't know that at all.

I have no experience with Linux lol that's why I'm looking for help..
I thought about using whiite as the image, what do you think?

(and there, color changed!)

Post by **Ayatus** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:23

You clearly won't need a swap partition, I was also thinking of WL:whiite-linux.

Given you have no experience at all, we're not out of the woods yet.

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:28

Lol exactly... if you help me I'd be very grateful ^^"

Ok so I'm extracting the whiite file...

I'm going to launch it with boot it, is that right?

EDIT: at first I was going to install bliight with a tutorial I saw on another site, apparently it's simple to install but I don't know if wifi is supported that way?

EDIT2: whoa whoa! there are tons of errors...ah, I figured, you need a linux system...

I guess I have to go with the linux images after all?

Post by **TGbot** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:34

Since nobody here uses linux on Wii!

It's going to be tough!

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:36

lol darn...

I'll do my best anyway...

Post by **Ayatus** » Wed 2 May 2012 16:36

Whoa, did you correctly prepare your hard drive as described in the tutorial, a first primary partition in FAT16 and a second primary partition in ext3 of at least 256MB?

Post by **Oops** » Wed 2 May 2012 17:00

going to all that trouble to run a system where hdds perform worse than an SD

Post by **Ayatus** » Wed 2 May 2012 17:04

The problem here is precisely the unusable sd card, but doesn't Opera for wii play flash videos?

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 17:33

actually I extracted the archive into a folder on my desktop... and there were tons of errors...

but by any chance can't the images launched with boot it run the internet?

the wii has flash player but it's too old and apart from youtube very few videos play.

Post by **TGbot** » Wed 2 May 2012 17:46

Yes because adobe didn't provide any help to devs for the wii.

Getting the sd reader replaced in a shop must cost around forty euros.

Have you taken a look inside the sd reader?

Post by **speendash** » Wed 2 May 2012 17:54

I know I could get it repaired but for now it's not my priority..

I'd like to first try to get linux working with my hard drive and with the image I can't manage it even though I'm following this tutorial... https://www.wiigen.fr/wii-linux-wii-ver ... 820-0.html

I type "bliight.img" as requested... then there's code scrolling by very fast underneath and it goes back to the main menu... any idea?

EDIT: ah it's fine, it launched, but when it finished I got a message in English telling me it couldn't find the x server (or something like that), maybe that's the graphical interface? weird... is there a file missing that needs to be added somewhere?

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