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Installing on an 80GB 5G iPod (OSX)

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perryman:
It is not an iPod classic.

I reformatted the iPod on a Windows computer and iTunes says it is Windows formatted.  The Rockbox utility, however, gives me the warning "you are using a MacPod, refer to the wiki to convert to FAT32".  I have never used Terminal before so I am really unsure on the instructions in the PDF manual.

So I tried the manual install hoping that it would magically work, and whenever I try to unzip the build, I do not receive an extracted folder.  I've used Archive Utility and StuffIt Expander to no avail. 

Do I have what it takes to use Rockbox if I can't even get it installed?  I'm not a computer wiz by any means but I'd like to be able to get past this snag and start using it.  Thanks. 

LambdaCalculus:
You'll have to follow the instructions listed here first to convert your iPod to FAT32:

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

Just carefully read the instructions there and you'll be fine.

Also, you are getting a folder, but you're just not seeing it... OS X (and any Unix or Linux, for that matter) hide folders with a preceeding . in their name by default (which, in this case, is the required .rockbox folder).

Once you get the iPod converted to FAT32, start Rockbox Utility again and continue with the installation.

perryman:
Just to be sure, when I click "Get info" on my iPod, it says the format is MS-DOS (FAT32).  Are you saying to go through with the manual conversion? Do I skip to a certain step in that process? 

AlexP:
A manual conversion is not just reformating, you also have to replace the partition table.  There is the manual method LambdaCalculus linked to, or you could restore from itunes on a windows pc.

perryman:
I was unclear in my first post.  I restored it via iTunes on a Windows computer.  Thus, my confusion.  The easy way listed in the link says nothing about having to repartition.  It says to just restore on a Windows computer and presto, it's ready, which I'm finding to not be the case.

EDIT::  In the manual instructions, I don't know what "Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you saved the partition table in step b)" means.  I'm just opening up Terminal and typing in the things it is saying.  As I said, I've never used Terminal before.  I saved the .bin file to my desktop. 

Kudos for everyone's patience.  I appreciate the help.  Thanks again.

EDIT 2::  I have since figured out how to navigate in the Terminal, but after changing it to the desktop, I got this message:

1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 2.429651 secs (211 bytes/sec)

My iPod did not go into Disk mode either.  Should I do the play+select combo myself to put it into disk  mode?

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