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Rodney9:
Hello. I am trying to get my 1st gen iPod Nano to work in Linux.

So I followed the instuctions here -

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodConversionToFAT32

however I get the following error

$ sudo mformat -t 2428 -h 255 -s 63 -S 4 -M 2048 -F a:
mformat: Can't open /dev/sdd3s2: No such file or directory

doesn't matter if it is mounted or unmounted.

even though mount shows - /dev/sdd3 on /media/Rodney’s iPod type hfsplus (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

What can I do ? I do not have windows or mac only Ubuntu 64bit 8.10

Should I use /media/Rodney’s iPod instead of /dev/sdd3
if so, do I put the /etc/mtools.conf in drive a: file="/media/Rodney’s iPods2"

Rodney

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Rodney9 on November 27, 2008, 12:01:24 AM ---mformat: Can't open /dev/sdd3s2: No such file or directory

--- End quote ---
it's /dev/sdd3, not sdd3s2. Also, unmount the Ipod first.

Rodney9:
Thank You, that seemed to work -

/dev/sdd3 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)

but now rbutilqt-v1.0.6-64bit tells me "Warning This is a MacPod, Rockbox does not work on this, convert to WinPod"

GodEater:
Sounds to me like you may have skipped the step for re-writing the MBR to the Nano - so while you've somehow managed to write a FAT32 filesystem to the partition, it's not marked as such.

Rodney9:
Well I started back at the beginning now I get the following -

$ sudo mformat -t 2428 -h 255 -n 63 -S 4 -M 2048 -F a:
mformat: Error reading from '/dev/sdd3', wrong parameters?

I think I know the problem, this is for 5gig, what is the linux command for 2gig ?

newfs_msdos -F 32 -S 2048 -v iPod /dev/sdd3 is only for Mac's I think.

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