[Cialug] HFSPlus and Linux

[Jim Asbille]

That would be interesting to me.

On 6/18/07, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/18/07, Jim Asbille <jim.asbille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I first got my iPod it was formated for Mac and I was using it
> under
> > Suse 10.0.  It never did work.  I formatted it for Windows and it has
> been
> > bliss ever since.  I currently use OpenSuse 10.2.  The Mac format is
> > supposed to be supported in Linux, maybe it is a Suse thing or maybe the
> > support is dodgy overall.  If you can format it for Windows then do.
>
> I just run Rockbox on my iPod and use vfat.  No problems, once you get
> past the install procedure (command line alert).  The best parts are
> that it plays every reasonable media format (including my ogg/flac
> collection) and it just uses a normal filesystem heirarchy instead of
> iTunes.
>
> http://rockbox.org/
>
> The interface is a bit clunky on an iPod because there are not enough
> buttons, so there's stuff like "hold center for 1 second" and such to
> get to extra functionality.  Apple just generally never gives enough
> buttons (see their mice).  In the rockbox text editor, you can
> optionally enter text with morse code tapping, though, which is pretty
> cute.
>
> Putting Rockbox on is something like Linux in the olden days; you run
> a good chance of losing all your data if something screws up, so make
> backups.  It installs a bootloader (rolo, analogous to lilo) which can
> optionally boot into the original Apple firmware, so you can still go
> back to the old ways if you like.
>
> I could give a talk about it at a meeting if there is interest.  I
> have several of my own small patches against their code, though over
> time they've managed to improve it such that I only need two of them
> anymore.  And I haven't pulled the svn head in a couple months, so
> maybe I don't even need the remaining ones.
>
> --
> Nathan P. Stien
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> Embedded Systems Electronics and Software
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