For some reason this program didn’t work either. I’ve used this program successfully in the past to grab files from my Ubuntu partition. Next program I tried was Ext2 IFS for Windows. I kept getting stopped by the “Windows could not find file specified” error whenever I tried to look in the ext2 partition. It was supposedly able to let me modify the ext2 partition.
Browsing the iPodLinux forums and Google searches led me to a program called LTOOLS. I also tried a program called iPod Manager 2.0.5, but it didn’t even open no matter how many times I tried to open it.Īfterward, I figure I could use a program to see the ext2 partition that iPodLinux makes and delete the modules manually from there. I took out the iPod and booted it up just to see no option for ZeroSlackr in the Bootloader.
FLOOLA AND ROCKBOX INSTALL
I opened the batch file included with the install files and it gave me a message saying installation successful and that I could now boot ZeroSlackr from my iPod.
FLOOLA AND ROCKBOX HOW TO
Rather than searching through this wall of text I just looked up how to install it on Google. I opened up the readme and it gave me the worst formatting I’d ever seen in a text file. After downloading, first thing I did was look at the readme’s to see how to install it.
Then I found out about the ZeroSlackr Project, which is supposed to provide a “simple, coherent, easy-to-use and newbie friendly method of installing iPodLinux on iPods”. What I don’t get is why I’m getting all these errors with my iPod when the developers state that my 5th gen iPod Video is supported. Stupidly enough, the installer refused to let me uncheck any of the options while clearly stating that I could uncheck certain ones if I didn’t want them. So what I tried to do next was to install iPodLinux without this module. Then the iPod later got stuck while initializing some module called “MPDc”. While loading the different modules, the OS would complain about how some modules were didn’t exist or my iPod had run out of memory. The next step was to boot the OS for the first time.
FLOOLA AND ROCKBOX PRO
I then repeated everything I had done so far on a Windows XP Pro machine and was finally able to install iPodLinux. Even after setting compatibility options and running as administrator, the installer wouldn’t work. I figured it was because I was using Windows 7 Pro 圆4.
I had to restore my iPod with iTunes every time this happened. As a result, my iPod was left half partitioned with no OS. Whenever I tried to install iPodLinux, the installer would close while trying to partition my iPod. Once I set up the environment variables, I was able to compile the source code.Īfter compiling the code, I went onto installation. Typing “qmake” kept giving me “qmake is not recognized” error in the Windows command line. I ran into a slight snag here as the installation guide on their site neglected to tell me that Qt would not set the system environment variables needed in order for me to follow the instructions in the guide as is.
FLOOLA AND ROCKBOX CODE
Downloading the source code required the installation of an SVN client, and compiling the source code required the installation of Qt with MinGW. There were binaries available for download, but those were two years out of date. The installation of iPodLinux requires the user to download the source code from their Subversion Repository and then compile it. I also found out that Linux on an iPod comes in two flavors: iPodLinux and Rockbox. I found out that the person was running Linux on their iPod with id Software’s Doom installed (a version ported to the iPod). Sometime in 2005 I saw a video of someone playing Half-Life on an iPod and I thought it was kind of cool that it was possible.
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