iPod Video - Reformatting to FAT32 Help with terminal needed!

[jamiie]

I'm on a Mac Os X 10.4.9 computer. Wanting Rockbox on my ipod. and this has been pissing me off....

I'm trying to reformat my ipod and i've done the steps in the instructions (http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32) up to step C

when i push all that stuff into the terminal, here is what i get...

Welcome to Darwin!
admins-Computer-2:~ jam_boy$ cd /Users/jam_boy/Documents/
admins-Computer-2:~/Documents jam_boy$ dd if=mbr-video30gb-2048.bin of=/dev/Leela
dd: /dev/Leela: Permission denied
admins-Computer-2:~/Documents jam_boy$

Leela is what i named my iPod and that file is in the Documents folder

please help, I am new to this!!!

thank you!

[scorche]

Well, it doesn't seem like you have administrative rights in your terminal.  I am not sure how OSX does this, but you should be able to do something like "sudo" or "su" in the terminal.  A bit of Google searching would likely be good to figure out exactly how to get administrative rights.

[GodEater]

Also not that (afaiu), it doesn't matter what you've called your ipod, the disk device will always be /dev/disk(n), where (n) is a number.

ipodpatcher --list should be able to tell you which device on your machine the ipod is.