iPod Auto Install

[CodyM]

I decided to write a quick autoinstaller for Rockbox + iPod. It's written in Python, since I threw it together pretty quickly using the wiki as a guide. It's not my best piece of work but it gets the job done easily.

It's very simple. Just save the script in the same directory as ipodpatcher.exe, ipod_fw.exe, and the bootloader for your iPod. It autodetects bootloader software in its directory and spits out a list. You type in the displayed command that corresponds with your iPod and it does the rest for you.

I know this is my first post, so anyone here with a good rep that knows Python can feel free to look over the script to make sure nothing out of the ordinary is going on.

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[mnhnhyouh]

Is this for windows, or mac?

h

[Llorean]

I would assume windows since he mentioned that the files are .exes

[mnhnhyouh]

As I only use computers, I didnt know that macs dont use .exe

h

[CodyM]

I can easily rewrite it to work on Mac as well as Windows. I'll post it here when it's done.

[mnhnhyouh]

Good, I am sure that there will be a number of people wanting a Mac one.

h

[CodyM]

Since I don't have an up-to-date Mac, someone's going to need to test this. Just report bugs here in this thread.

EDIT: Ok, fixed a couple of stupid bugs and added uninstall capability. I'll post the updated versions of both scripts in a moment.

EDIT 2: Ok, the updated versions are attached. Again, please repot any bugs here in this thread.

* Added uninstall capability.
* Fixed a silly bug where dumped boot partitions were screwing with the bootloader list and causing a crash.
* Fixed another silly bug where the wrong variable was being printed, causing a pretend bug.
* Fixed yet another silly bug in the Mac version where some text was displaying at the wrong time.

I'm pretty sure 'dir /B' doesn't work on OS X, but I seem to remember using it in Linux a couple times so I just left it. If this doens't work and someone knows a command that does the same thing, please let me know. The result of dir bootloader*.bin /B is this:

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bootloader-4g.bin
bootloader-color.bin
bootloader-mini2g.bin
bootloader-nano.bin
bootloader-video.bin

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[fresnoa]

please let us know where we can get the auto-install script!  Thanks!

[CodyM]

The latest version is attached to Reply #6.

[Rekoil]

just so everyone is clear, python is an open source programming language, in other words its not limited to macs, pcs, pdas, ipods with ipodlinux basically anything with the python binaries in it. although since it uses executables to actually patch the files that means its locked to windows only since no other operating system can read executables

but i believe both ipod_fw and ipodpatcher are open source which means you could easily compile them for use on a mac or whatever so yeah

[OiKiN]

nah, i got it to work