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60gig ipod with Mac

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alternapop:
tring to install for the first time.  my iPod was formatted with an incompatible format so i ran these commands in the Terminal:

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popstar:~/desktop usershortname$ dd if=mbr-video60gb.bin of=/dev/disk2s3
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.322858 secs (1586 bytes/sec)
popstar:~/desktop usershortname $ newfs_msdos -F32 -v iPod /dev/disk2s3
newfs_msdos: warning: /dev/disk2s3 is not a character device
/dev/disk2s3: 116984960 sectors in 1827890 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf0 spt=32 hds=255 hid=0 bsec=117013560 bspf=14281 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
popstar:~/desktop usershortname $ ./ipodpatcher /dev/disk2s3 -r bootpartition.bin
ipodpatcher v0.5 - (C) Dave Chapman 2006
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/disk2s3
[INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes
[ERR]  Drive is not an iPod, aborting
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i did this once, then opened iTunes and let iTunes reformat the iPod...  apparently this wasn't what i should have done because the i was getting the same error when trying to backup the firmware.

now that my ipod is formatted correctly, and i'm using a mac, what do i do next?

i had a half dozen web pages open but my browser crashed and i forget where i was within the help section.  :(

thanks,
chris

GodEater:
If you run "ipodpatcher --scan" it'll give you the right device name. I suspect /dev/disk2s3 is probably a partition, and not the whole ipod device.

alternapop:
thanks for your response.   i don't think that's the problem.

i first got this error when trying to backup:

Bad boot sector signature

then via the forums discovered that i needed to reformat my ipod with the windows format.  that's when i got the next error...

Llorean:
Yes, because disk2s3 is not an iPod. GodEater is correct, that is not the whole device, just a partition.

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