Error installing on first generation iPod - Unknown version number in firmware

[lean]

Dear all, I am attempting to install rockbox on a first generation 10GB iPod. I have converted successfully to FAT32 and have installed the software in the .rockbox directory. When I try to run ipodpatcher I get the following error:

paul@tambo:~/software/rockbox$ sudo ./ipodpatcher /dev/sdb
Password:
ipodpatcher v2.0 with v2.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/sdb
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              32         67583        33.0   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           67584      19529727      9503.0   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[ERR] Unknown version number in firmware (00000003)

I have never upgraded the firmware ever in the last 5 years.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul.

[yapper]

What firmware version do you have installed?

Settings>About>Version should show it.

I've successfully installed on a 20G 2nd gen iPod which has Apple firmware 1.5

[linuxstb]

ipodpatcher won't work with the _very_ first versions of Apple's firmware on the 1st gen - you could either try and fix it (the firmware format is documented at http://ipodlinux.org/Firmware ) or upgrade your Apple's firmware.

I see you're on Linux, so if you don't have access to itunes, you can follow the instructions here:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodManualRestore

(just do steps 2-4 - the firmware upgrade process).

[lean]

My firmware version was 1.1

I followed steps 2-4 of the manual restore process to upgrade to firmware 1.5. After that ipodpatcher worked fine and I know have rockbox installed. (I seem to have a battery problem now, but thats a different issue.)

Many thanks for the help.
Lean.