Heres how to install a custom build of rockbox and a few extras. This will install extra fonts, a few themes, and the freeware version of DOOM for rockbox!
Uses this build
Extras from here
Themes from here and here
Step 1: Run all this stuff. It makes a folder named rockbox in your home folder and puts the main files in it.
Ipod Video 5, 5.5 gen 30GB:mkdir rockbox
cd rockbox/
wget http://home.centurytel.net/tdtooke/rockbox32.zip
unzip rockbox32.zip
Ipod Video 5, 5.5 gen 60GB / 80GB:mkdir rockbox
cd rockbox/
wget http://home.centurytel.net/tdtooke/rockbox64.zip
unzip rockbox64.zip
Step 2: Run these for video ipod models (all: 5, 5.5 gen , 30, 60, 80 GB)
wget http://download.rockbox.org/daily/fonts/rockbox-fonts.zip
wget http://download.rockbox.org/useful/rockdoom.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/ROCKBlocks.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/Theme_X_HighBar.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/cabbie-ipod.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/45rpm.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/ubuntu.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/yobunny.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/phkFORUM.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/phkOSC.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/phkAMP.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/phkGUITAR.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/phkTAPE.zip
wget http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/WpsIpod5g/slant.zipunzip -o rockbox-fonts.zip
unzip -o rockdoom.zip
unzip -o StainPack.zip
unzip -o Theme_X_HighBar.zip
unzip -o cabbie-ipod.zip
unzip -o 45rpm.zip
unzip -o ubuntu.zip
unzip -o yobunny.zip
unzip -o Cool_Blue_v1.2.zip
unzip -o phkFORUM.zip
unzip -o phkOSC.zip
unzip -o phkAMP.zip
unzip -o phkGUITAR.zip
unzip -o phkTAPE.zip
unzip -o slant.zip
Step 3: Open your home folder. Open the folder named rockbox. Press Control+H to display hidden files. observe the file named '.rockbox'
In a seperate window, open your ipod
Drag .rockbox to the root of your ipod
There are a few ways to allow rockbox to load, but the prettiest, fastest, and most user-friendly way is what happens automatically when you follow my install ipodlinux guide, which is as follows:
good luck!
mkdir ipodlinux
cd ipodlinux
wget http://de.dataghost.com/ipl/dg-installer/dg-linux-installer-20070311.tar.bz2
tar -jxf dg-linux-installer-20070311.tar.bz2
sudo ./installer.sh
Step 4.5: if you are having trouble loading rockbox and / or ipodlinux, make sure you have followed all the above instructions and have a file named 'loader.cfg' with the following contents in the root of your ipod. if you do not, create it.
Apple OS @ ramimg
iPodLinux @ (hd0,1)/linux.bin
Rockbox @ (hd0,1)/.rockbox/rockbox.ipod
Disk Mode @ diskmode
Sleep @ standby
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You could also use rbutil (Rockbox Utility) to install rockbox on your player. Its even easier..(one click install) and works on Linux/mac/windows...
you can find this tool in the wiki of the rockbox.org page.
greetings,
domonoky
true, but this installs a custom build with patches, and has some themes that only work with patched builds.
Would be nice, if you could help me get ipod linux running on my ipod 4g color. With this grublike loader I can choose between rockbox and ipodlinux, but linux doesn' t boot correctly but hangs up. I would really appreciate a tared image file for my linux partition.
Cheers, Stephan
Well, on my existing ipod linux partiton, I untared your ipl-nopartitioning-1.1-20070311.tar.bz2 file. In IPL Loader I changed the boot option /vmlinux to linux.bin and booting ends up with kernel panic:
vfs mounted root (vfat filesystem),
mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2
freeing init memory: 64k
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
Any help appreciated. Cheers, Stephan
i'm sorry, I don't know whats going on there. I didn't create this installer, only the commands to download and use it. For better help, I would suggest posting in the ipodlinux forums.
Okay...........
I thought, you might know, as you' re familiar with ubuntu. After I tried updating from an old rockbox build I' m now facing problems loading it. Seems the ipodloader.conf of ipl2 isn' t unable to load from /.rockbox/ -well, at least it can' t find the file there. So, as a result, both ipodlinux and rockbox aren' t bootable anymore. I don' t get it.
Cheers anyway, Stephan
Que buen tutorial, lo estoy usando ahora mismo, haber que resulta...
This tutorial rocks, I'm using it right now. I'll let you know what happen...
Hi, I'm an official ipodlinux and rockbox user since one week!!! I'll translate your tutorial to spanish in this week to make easier the use of alternative firmware in our iPods using Ubuntu.
I have a question, I have been trying to install a new scheme for ipodlinux but I'm having some problems, could you make a tutorial about it for ubuntu?
Look at this scheme
http://ipodlinux.org/Special:Scheme/macosxtiger
It needs this IconUI
http://ipodlinux.org/Special:Module/iconui
Thanks in advice for the help!
how EXACTLY do i create the loader? I made a folder names loader.cfg, but what do i put in it? A text doc? another folder? And just to clarify, I put it in media/ipod, right? thanks.
a confused person
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