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2G iPod Installation - Matching partition table

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BdN3504:
On this page, the partition table for the 2g ipod is not listed. Which one should I use, when i try to format a 2g ipod to fat32?

Chronon:
Apparently, no one with one of those players has taken the time to submit that info to the wiki.  Hopefully, someone will happen by with that info.  Depending on how quickly someone can give you the necessary information it might be easier to try to find a friend with a PC.

yapper:
This might help (I'll take a look at updating the wiki tonight):


--- Code: ---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] Scanning disk devices...
[INFO] Ipod found - 1st or 2nd Generation ("winpod") - disk device 1
[INFO] Reading partition table from \\.\PhysicalDrive1
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[INFO] Part    Start Sector    End Sector   Size (MB)   Type
[INFO]    0              63         80324        39.2   Empty (0x00)
[INFO]    1           80325      39054014     19030.1   W95 FAT32 (0x0b)
[INFO] Ipod model: 1st or 2nd Generation ("winpod")
Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall
 or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :
--- End code ---

EDIT: Can someone give some guidance on how to 'dump' a partition table, preferably via Windows, or using Linux via a LiveCD?

GodEater:

--- Quote from: yapper on July 01, 2008, 07:32:21 AM ---EDIT: Can someone give some guidance on how to 'dump' a partition table, preferably via Windows, or using Linux via a LiveCD?

--- End quote ---

The preferred method to do it is using 'dd' which is a standard linux command, but I believe there's a version you can get for windows too. The difficulty then though would be that I don't recall the windows device naming convention. Amiconn might be able to help there - he's used it before.

For the linux command line though you'd do :


--- Code: ---dd if=/dev/sdb of=ipod_2nd_gen_mbr.bin count=1 bs=512

--- End code ---

Where "/dev/sdb" is the device name of your ipod when it's plugged in to your PC.

yapper:
Thanks for the pointers.

I've found a 'dd for windows' here http://www.chrysocome.net/dd but still need the naming convention.

I could use the Linux dd but I would need to point the output file at the iPod as I'd be running Linux from a LiveCD.

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