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ristoman:
Hi all,

I'm kind of a n00b but I'm not a computer illiterate. I find myself in the interesting position of not having a PC, having a iPod Photo 30 in HFS and a Firewire connection.

Now, I have managed to convert my iPod to FAT32 multiple times (and both iTunes and Disk Utility confirm that, disk use is enabled, blah blah blah), I have used RockboxUtilityQt with success according to the software, I have also tried ipodpatcher through Terminal, but my iPod still can't find rockbox.ipod when all is said and done. I have also tried manually unzipping the rockbox.zip file into the root of my iPod, and I have verified with Terminal that the .rockbox folder is there. But still no cigar.

My only worry is that there is no real iPod Photo 30 partition table in the FAT32 conversion page, so I had to use the Video 30 one. Could that really be an issue? I mean a partition table has nothing to do with the capabilities of the iPod, or at least I would think so. It seems to me that Photo's have a hard time with Rockbox, but I'm desperately trying to add FLAC compatibility so I really need you guys' help! Any clues as to what might be wrong?

GodEater:
Could you post a directory listing, and perhaps the output of fdisk -l?

ristoman:
right now i only have .rockbox in the root folder in /dev/disk3s2/, and the contents are

.                       doom                    rockbox-info.txt
..                      eqs                     rockbox.ipod
backdrops               fonts                   rocks
codecs                  icons                   tagnavi.config
codepages               langs                   themes
database.ignore         rbutil.log              viewers.config
docs                    recpresets              wps
 
fdisk -l gives me that "L" is an illegal option. And I don't know what to put in for the disk.

Llorean:
Well "L" and "l" are different. Are you typing fdisk -L or fdisk -l, because these things are case sensitive.

cool_walking_:
Or maybe that's some strange Mac way of saying "insufficient permissions"? On most (every?) Linux system I've seen, fdisk needs root, so do "sudo fdisk -l".

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