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Offline miacrow

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trouble converting ipod 5th gen 80gb to FAT32
« on: October 11, 2008, 03:20:42 AM »
i am following the tutorial on
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32
 i am pretty unfamiliar with the language being used, but i am ok until i get to step c.  i do everything the instructions say to do but once i run this command
dd if=mbr-video80gb-2048.bin of=/dev/ipod1
i get this message
dd: /dev/ipod1: Permission denied
 does anyone know what to do

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Offline bluebrother

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Re: trouble converting ipod 5th gen 80gb to FAT32
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2008, 03:22:19 AM »
You don't have the required permissions, as the error message says. Get them ;) Usually you can do this by becoming root.
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Offline miacrow

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Re: trouble converting ipod 5th gen 80gb to FAT32
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2008, 03:26:37 AM »
what are these permissions that i need? how would i go about getting them?  what is root? 
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Offline yapper

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Re: trouble converting ipod 5th gen 80gb to FAT32
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2008, 04:49:09 AM »
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/linuxterms/index/root.html
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Offline cool_walking_

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Re: trouble converting ipod 5th gen 80gb to FAT32
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2008, 07:24:15 AM »
Quote from: yapper on October 11, 2008, 04:49:09 AM
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/linuxterms/index/root.html

See point 2 here:
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html
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