Installation / Removal > Sandisk - Installation/Removal
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Rydian:
Yeah, except that I just moved here, have made no new friends yet (I work at home so I don't get out much), my old ones moved away, and my only spare computer ran 98 and now refuses to boot off external media, so until I get a new one, or perhaps a floppy to flash the bios, I have no spare.
Rydian:
Alright, I have an XP machine to use, and...
Still cannot install bootloader. Â It can't autodetect my sansa (no matter if it's in MSC mode or not), but if I mount it manually it can install rockbox, but I'm still getting told the bootloader is up to date...
EDIT: The clarify, it tells me "no sansa found", both when trying to install and remove the bootloader.
I have upgraded to the latest official firmware.
Strife89:
This might be a little more involved than you would like, but you could probably install Xubuntu (a light-load version of Ubuntu) and try to install Rockbox through that OS. In Ubuntu, I have had no problems doing so with the very Sansa model you're working with.
If you're interested, go download a Live CD image of Xubuntu 7.10 at http://www.xubuntu.org/get#gutsy . Be aware: it's a ~560MB download, and you must have a program that can burn .iso files ready. (IMGBurn is wonderful freeware for this: http://www.imgburn.com/ ) After that, enter your BIOS setup and put your CD-ROM drive at the top of your boot sequence, then boot from the CD. Xubuntu will load a workable desktop, but won't touch your hard drive(s) until you tell it to install (or acess it manually with the file browser). Installation is fairly fast and very easy; and you can keep Windows 2000 for a dual-boot setup if you want.
If you can do all that, try the Linux versions of the Rockbox tools and hope it works.
Rydian:
Psh, like I'm going to try a *buntu livecd.
I've got knoppix and DSL and puppy and various other GUI-less ones, I'll try it with knoppix first when I get the chance.
Even running xubuntu off the harddrive is a chore on this machine, and I would not recommend an *ubuntu livecd to anybody for any reason other than to use the graphical installer, if it even came to that.
EDIT: Alright. The XP machine wasn't mine and was in use, so I had to use my machine. I forgot there's soemthing odd with the motherboard, and the standard 2.6 versions of the linux kernal used by xubuntu and knoppix don't work with my PS/2 mouse, anmd I don't have a USB one. I could have used text command, but even with a 1 gig swap partition I've set up previously, navigating the web and such was a chore with the keyboard.
So I changed to puppy, because I can't find my DSL CD right now.
And wow, it reminded me just how much puppy has to suck to fit in 50 megs. XD After wrestling with it's odd window manager and icon system for maybe 10 minutes, I finally got the bootloader installer to work. And work it did.
My player is FINALLY rockbox'd. And it was actually worth it. The ability to turn off that blinding-as-hell (yet preyy) set of blue LEDs o the menu buttons is worth it. Also, better screen control and such, too. I can deal with the less than ahlf battery life.
AlexP:
--- Quote from: Rydian on February 13, 2008, 03:40:55 PM ---I can deal with the less than ahlf battery life.
--- End quote ---
Eh? Where did you get this from? We are fast approaching the Sansa claimed runtime on the E200, and I'm going to assume that the C200 is similar or not much worse (I suspect pixelma will be able to confirm/correct me), but either way you should much more than half battery life, not less.
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