Installing Rockbox On Sanasa Clip+ Ubuntu 14.04

[Echo]

Hello,
In Ubuntu 14.04 MTP devices are mounted not using the normal mount to /media.
They are mounted to an MTP device accessible only by nautilus.
This is a problem since Rockbox utility can't find the mount point so it can't install the device.

After I could not find a way to mount my Sansa Clip+ properly, I managed to do a workaround so I could install Rockbox.
This workaround worked for me but it may not work for everyone.
Any way, I think this is useful enough to post, hope someone could make it to good use

• Create a new blank folder on your computer to "install" Rockbox to.
• In Rockbox Utility, configure your device manually to the mount point is your newly created folder
• Install Rockbox, Including boot loader
• Connect your Sansa to your computer
• Copy the files from the install folder (the one created in stage 1) to you Sansa root folder
• Disconnect and reboot your device. This will result in boot failure, telling you to connect to USB
• Connect your device to your computer. The device will be mounted to /media as it used to be in ubuntu 12.04
• Reinstall Rockbox, including boot loader, this time to you device
• Disconnect and reboot your device
• Write a bug report to Ubuntu, telling them to make it possible to mount MTP devices normally

Hope this helps someone, for me it did the trick.

Peace and love,
Raz
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[saratoga]

You don't need to do any of that. Just put the device into msc mode.

[Echo]

You are very much correct, my bad.
I thought the correct mode was MTP.
Sorry for spamming.

Peace and love,
Raz