Hi all,
I am in the process of teaching myself computer science, currently studying servers and databases using Lynda.com videos. I am interested in creating a home server to play around with, and while looking at what old hardware I have lying around I noticed my Wii U gathering dust.
Since nobody has powered it on in over a year, I have no interest in preserving the native OS and gaming functionality. I want to use it as a Linux home server for learning purposes. I am fairly tech savvy, have successfully installed and done basic troubleshooting for an Ubuntu install on an old MacBook, and am comfortable with the command line.
I have looked around for instructions, and the stickies in this board and others are very well developed, but since I am trying to do something slightly different (wiping vs. running homebrew) I need some help to adapt the existing instructions to my particular situation.
A few questions:
1) Is what I want to do currently possible?
2) If possible, would it make sense to do this, or are there problems I am unaware of that would make it too much of a pain in the ass?
3) I see that FlimFlam69's kernel exploit uses the SD slot, and I see elsewhere that SD cards can be used for the installation media. What else would be required for running the installer?
4) After a lot of Googling, I could not find any tutorials or instructions that seemed to pertain to my situation, but if you know of any, can you please post a link?
Thank you!
I am in the process of teaching myself computer science, currently studying servers and databases using Lynda.com videos. I am interested in creating a home server to play around with, and while looking at what old hardware I have lying around I noticed my Wii U gathering dust.
Since nobody has powered it on in over a year, I have no interest in preserving the native OS and gaming functionality. I want to use it as a Linux home server for learning purposes. I am fairly tech savvy, have successfully installed and done basic troubleshooting for an Ubuntu install on an old MacBook, and am comfortable with the command line.
I have looked around for instructions, and the stickies in this board and others are very well developed, but since I am trying to do something slightly different (wiping vs. running homebrew) I need some help to adapt the existing instructions to my particular situation.
A few questions:
1) Is what I want to do currently possible?
2) If possible, would it make sense to do this, or are there problems I am unaware of that would make it too much of a pain in the ass?
3) I see that FlimFlam69's kernel exploit uses the SD slot, and I see elsewhere that SD cards can be used for the installation media. What else would be required for running the installer?
4) After a lot of Googling, I could not find any tutorials or instructions that seemed to pertain to my situation, but if you know of any, can you please post a link?
Thank you!