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** HOW TO INSTALL EMACS ON YOUR NINTENDO WII **
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2019-12-15
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the nintendo wii is my favourite video game console, because its hardware
design is fascinating, and it is by far one of the easiest consoles to
jailbreak and root
also its controllers, with all due respect, were revolutionary, and really
made video games more accessible to an enormously broad and diverse
audience
the console encouraged innovative human-computer interface metaphors, many
of which were completely speculative, experimental, and entirely novel.
it is a fascinating and unique piece of hardware :-)
my main desire for getting linux on this wii was to read emails and listen
to internet radio etc on it, and use it primarily as a very low power
desktop computer!
so i suppose what i'm carrying out isn't really an absolute, universal
good, for all people - but i am certainly able to now use this device to
pirate a great many games, and utilise its exceptional graphics processing
performance for things, like watching videos etc etc
but yes! aside from that, there is no real use, apart from practising
software freedom, really!
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okay this is what you do to get linux working on your Wii:
- download the debian distribution prepared for the Wii here:
https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx
the kernel version is pretty old, it's 3.15 or some verison of 3.X
but once you do that, make 2 partitions on an SD card:
(1) - FAT16 (for booting the exploit which loads the kernel, basically the
hacked bootloader which you got access to once you rooted your console).
i'd recommend making this boot partition about 50MiB big
(2) - some ext3 or ext4 partition, of a nice large size - i'd recommend
using a 64GiB SD card, because you'll need a really big swap file for this
install
put the bootloader ELF files in the FAT16 partition, and put the linux
root filesystem in the ext3/4 partition
slap dat SD card in, and select the kernel image from the BootMii menu you
installed when you rooted your console.
>Welcome to Linux. (~ o w o )~ _/
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what to do in order to update the system:
this is what your /etc/apt/sources.list file should look like:
`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main
`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid main
`deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports experimental main
this is because Debian, in true bastardy, has removed support for PowerPC
CPUs. you need to get the apt repository that they've archived.
but once you'd done that, and you've got your networking going, (which
most would be able to do because it's debian), you should be able to:
`apt-get update
and then All Should Be Right In The World. with a simple
`apt-get install emacs
you should now be able to use emacs on your Nintendo Wii
:-)
