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Installation / Removal => Manual Installation => Apple - Installation/Removal => Topic started by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 06:49:51 PM

Title: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 06:49:51 PM
I need help instaling a rockbox for the first time in my ipod nano, can somebody guide me
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:06:47 PM
What part of the IpodInstallation page are you having problems with?

If you ask specific questions, it will make it easier to help.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:08:19 PM
the whole thing cant seem to understand how to do it
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:13:39 PM
Have you read the IpodInstallation page in the wiki?
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:14:38 PM
yes, right now my ipod is hooked up and my computer is windows xp dont know if that matters, what do i do next? what should i download
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:19:00 PM
If you've read the IpodInstallation page, it tells you what to download. You've been here and read it?
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallation (http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallation)
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:21:20 PM
i tried it dont understand, can somebody guide me thru it, do you have aim or yahoo?
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:24:18 PM
The page tells you exactly what to type, and what programs you need to download. It really can't be given much simpler than that.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:25:29 PM
anyone else that can help me
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Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:28:29 PM
What exactly do you want?
The page tells you exactly what to type. The only thing a human being could do more for you is to come to your house and type it in for you.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:34:50 PM
well im not a nerd, i cant get command prompt thingy to work
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:36:37 PM
Well, unfortunately it can only be installed by way of the command prompt.

The instructions tell you *exactly* what to type in the command prompt, as long as you change directories to the folder where you've downloaded those files.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:40:00 PM
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

thats what i get and im supposed to get
C:\rockbox directory (type C: and press enter, then type "cd \rockbox" and press enter).

IM basically stuck in B)
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:41:23 PM
Assuming you saved the files in C:\rockbox, just type
Code: [Select]
cd C:\rockbox
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:48:00 PM
the system cannot find the path, i have the rock box in my c drive? im so confused
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Llorean on March 09, 2006, 07:50:22 PM
Do you have it in a folder called rockbox?

C:\rockbox means "the rockbox folder on the C drive." If you look in file explorer, at the very top in the part where it says "Address" it shows the same sort of thing.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:51:41 PM
rockbox or .rockbox
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 07:58:02 PM
C:\rockbox>   im here wuts next?
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: herz42 on March 09, 2006, 08:04:06 PM
Hi, I've done the installation with the script from this topic:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2801.0

Worked fine for my 5g on win2k...
Maybe this is worth raising to the wiki?

  Ralf
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: dupontracer248 on March 09, 2006, 08:10:55 PM
C:\rockbox>  what do i type next?
 

Title: Re: help installing
Post by: RenatoN on March 09, 2006, 09:10:28 PM
cd C:\Rockbox
as long as that is where you put the Rockbox folder.

The instructions are pretty easy to follow from here:


http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodInstallation


Renato
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: SilleeString on March 09, 2006, 09:34:08 PM
Seriously, it's super easy, or get the script.  I'm not trying to be disrespectful but it'd be a waste of someone's time to basically just repeat all the steps from the wiki...just follow the steps EXACTLY as they're typed.  I suck terribly with command prompts and I got 'er done in one try, you can definitely do it.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: aaronfg on March 10, 2006, 02:46:51 PM
If you can't follow the instructions on the wiki, which are in all honesty as simple as it gets, perhaps an alternate firmware isn't for you.

Not to be mean or anything, but if any issues come up, you're going to have to tinker with stuff, and it sounds like you don't quite get some basic stuff.

You could also use the batch file linked above, since it takes away your need to type anything at all.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: SlaytanicLemmy on March 10, 2006, 05:05:25 PM
dupontracer248,

I don't know how old you are, or what kind of computer experience you have, but if you have a friend or neighbor with any computer experiience at all, they should be able to help you.  It isn't that hard, but you need to undertand the terminology.

If you want to send it to me, I will be happy to install it for you, but you should learn.

Basically, you need all of the files referenced in the instructions to a directory (folder) on your C: drive named rockbox.  Then do everything in BOLD.
Title: Re: help installing
Post by: Hyperbit on March 11, 2006, 06:17:44 AM
I done All Steps but get Error :(
Pls Help

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=2970.0