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Topic: I cant boot from my Ipod, I am newbie, sorry

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Someone

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Posted: June 23 2006,09:18

Ipod uses HFS+ (or something like that) file system, if that is not supported by dsl then you cant use it with dsl. You could always format it to fat32, but it might brake it, so don't try it unless your Ipod is ready to get killed.

btw, you never used the Search button on the upper right corner? Make a search with the word "ipod"

palermi

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Posted: June 23 2006,16:30

when seach about ipod in the forum, only appears this post

Someone

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Posted: June 24 2006,08:57

Yes because you searched only for this months topics, there is option to search from this years topics or for the beginning, beginning means all posts, so search again.

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Posted: July 18 2006,17:46

Not quite an issue, yet, but my situation is similar. I have a Creative Zen Micro, 6 gigs. There's this removable drive function (you probably all already knew that), with it set to 1G. This box has XP with a 74G HD, and I can't really make the XP partition smaller, so the question is pretty much, how to get DSL onto the Zen Micro?

I haven't actually tried DSL yet, but it sounds great, and I just want to be sure right now that it will work, as opposed to what happened with Mepis (see below)

P.S. To find out more about my Linux troubles, go here http://www.mepis.org/node/10558

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Posted: July 19 2006,00:22

If you _first_ installed your ipod on an apple machine, it will use HFS+ (not supported by DSL by default); if Windows, it will use fat32. It will then create 2 partitions, 1. the O/S ( and savestate if your ipod uses it ) ~80mb, 2. the rest for data, music, etc. (folders are hidden)

I have repartitioned mine to use 1. firmware+bootloader 2. fat32 - data and rockbox o/s 3. ext2 for ipodlinux and linux data.
Given that I could do this, I wouldn't see how using a ipod would differ from using a normal usb drive - however I have not tried to install DSL on this personally (yet).

The only thing you have to confirm is if your drive is which format, and ask yourself if you want to repartition it, or convert it, etc.

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