Large bootpartition.bin

[dmaz]

Hi, I tried following the Linux installation instructions, but the bootpartition.bin extraction did not seem to be working correctly so I killed it, which resulted in the following output:

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$ dd if=/dev/sdb of=bootpartition.bin
9716193+0 records in
9716192+0 records out
4974690304 bytes (5.0 GB) copied, 572.898 seconds, 8.7 MB/s

It seemed that dd was stuck in a loop until I killed it, which resulted in the 5.0 GB bootpartition.bin, which seems much too large.
I have a 5G iPod.

Also, the first dd command worked normally, when I extracted mbr.bin.

[linuxstb]

The device "/dev/sdb" is your entire disk - you wanted to do "dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=bootpartition.bin" to read the contents of the first partititon.

[dmaz]

Awesome, all I was missing was the "1". Everything worked perfectly.