![]() ![]() Do so - hopefully all should be fixed, it will automatically mount and Rhythmbox or whatever iTunes equivalent you use will recognise it. You should see a picture on the screen telling you to plug it back in. To format the storage partition type this command: 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "ipod" /dev/sd*2.' This creates a vfat partition of F32 type named "ipod". Unless you like reinstalling your operating system. To install the firmware type this command 'sudo dd if=FIRMWAREFILENAME of=/dev/sd*1.īE 100% CERTAIN YOU TYPE THE RIGHT SD*1 NAME! For example, don't do what I did and try to install iPod firmware on your computer hard disk by accidentally typing 'sda1' instead of 'sdb1'. Then download the right firmware for your iPod from this site. This creates two partitions on your iPod, sd*1 for the firmware and sd*2 for storage. Find out by 'sudo fdisk -l' without it attached then with it attached and note what was added. * You need to know what the device name of your iPod is. Ignore the stuff about HFS unless your iPod was originally formatted under Mac.ĥS Ġ Eventually, after about two days' trying, I finally figured out what to do and was so pleased I decided to post about it to hopefully help other people.įirst, go to this old but useful guide to see how to set up partitions on iPod. Nearly all the posts I found simply said, 'You're screwed, use a friend's Windows machine'. ![]() Nope.Ī quick Google should provide the solution right? Nope. Nope.Īpple, helpfully, no longer supply individual firmware files: you must install iTunes. I tried deleting everything I could find on the disk to no avail, so took the nuclear option of deleting the drive's partitions, figuring it would be easy to restore the original iPod firmware later. There were clearly some remnants left of the Rockbox OS. The simple matter that you can't simply select a 'shuffle' equivalent put paid to it for me.īut after uninstalling, I found my iPod buggy. The Rockbox OS has a lot of admirers but I found it fiddly, buggy and counter-intuitive. So pleased in fact that I decided to port my iPod over to an open-source OS, Rockbox. I have recently moved to linux and been pleased with the results. (copied from a blog post i just wrote to help others. ![]()
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