Homebrew Wii U Linux

Billy Acuña

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this is pretty big news why isn't this on the front page, the switch linux tease is already front page, give the wii u a little love it aint dead yet or this wouldn't even exist, still though this pretty sweet.
Because switchax is "cool" and wiiu is an "crappy dead" console.
The whole Switch thing is a non-stop hype train while the WiiU was forget as soon as Nintendo stopped to support it.
I was kinda sad with that fact but ultimately nice wiiu stuff is coming (Linux-wiiu, WiiUPluginSystem and boot1hax) :)
 
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I've managed to get a far as loading the kernel :) but I haven't got Linux set up to write the Distro to USB.
Is it possible to turn the Debian.tar.zx into a IMG so I can write it with Win32Diskimager?
 

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I've managed to get a far as loading the kernel :) but I haven't got Linux set up to write the Distro to USB.
Is it possible to turn the Debian.tar.zx into a IMG so I can write it with Win32Diskimager?
There you go :)
https://mega.nz/#!OIZTnSwR!qoPctyyz-CRpAWmekSBldFd7-NrtXDUx4nAlObkzTh4
Code:
MD5: 46eeaa77c148905686fa30def2c0cba8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA1: 7e7e8a6c584ca791c8d890bafab99891af7a0ff8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA256: 7f4ff507daaf4b802b7b14a22ca1cda2480e873bedd4cca0de39f70765d2c08e  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img

The image is for a 4gib usb drive, so if yours is larger to use the whole space you'll have to manually resize the filesystem on the Wii U after booting linux

(warning: I didn't have any free usb drive to test the image, so it may also not work..)
 

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There you go :)
https://mega.nz/#!OIZTnSwR!qoPctyyz-CRpAWmekSBldFd7-NrtXDUx4nAlObkzTh4
Code:
MD5: 46eeaa77c148905686fa30def2c0cba8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA1: 7e7e8a6c584ca791c8d890bafab99891af7a0ff8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA256: 7f4ff507daaf4b802b7b14a22ca1cda2480e873bedd4cca0de39f70765d2c08e  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img

The image is for a 4gib usb drive, so if yours is larger to use the whole space you'll have to manually resize the filesystem on the Wii U after booting linux

(warning: I didn't have any free usb drive to test the image, so it may also not work..)
Thank You I'll give it a go :)
 

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There you go :)
https://mega.nz/#!OIZTnSwR!qoPctyyz-CRpAWmekSBldFd7-NrtXDUx4nAlObkzTh4
Code:
MD5: 46eeaa77c148905686fa30def2c0cba8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA1: 7e7e8a6c584ca791c8d890bafab99891af7a0ff8  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img
SHA256: 7f4ff507daaf4b802b7b14a22ca1cda2480e873bedd4cca0de39f70765d2c08e  debian-wiiu-2018-02-03.img

The image is for a 4gib usb drive, so if yours is larger to use the whole space you'll have to manually resize the filesystem on the Wii U after booting linux

(warning: I didn't have any free usb drive to test the image, so it may also not work..)
Can I have the ext4 partition along with a fat32 one?
 

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How do you connect the internet? it says in the guide to tether with bluetooth?
Yeah. It's kind-of-slow though (dial-up speeds...)
You can follow standard tutorials online to share internet via bluetoeth with android and linux

Soon enough we should start to include usb net adapters support
 
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Yeah. It's kind-of-slow though (dial-up speeds...)
You can follow standard tutorials online to share internet via bluetoeth with android and linux

Soon enough we should start to include usb net adapters support
Thanks I'll probably wait for that then.. I'm trying to get LXDE or some sort of GUI up an running :P
 

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A port of Linux 4.11.6 to the Wii U baremetal.

simply read here for info : https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-wiiu#wii-u-linux

thanks alot to QuarktheAwesome and rw-r-r_0644.
I keep getting this error.
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