Playin' with my iPod

Just installed Rockbox on my iPod mini (1st generation) - I have to admit 
that I'm *really* impressed.

Anyone else here play with this or with the version of Linux that runs on 
iPods?

What about hardware mods - anyone replace their battery (I have, very 
easy to do) or upgrade the flash drive?  Flash drive upgrade might be 
next - an 8 GB CFII card is running about $70 these days, might be a 
cheap way to double my storage.

Wondering what others' experience is.

Jim

-- 
 Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1

Jim Henderson wrote:

>Just installed Rockbox on my iPod mini (1st generation) - I have to admit
>that I'm really impressed.
>
>Anyone else here play with this or with the version of Linux that runs on
>iPods?

I colleague of mine has played with it. He is very impressed with Rockbox, 
but OTOH Linux for iPod seems to be a product you don't want to install 
because it is unstable an is very poor in functionality compared to rockbox.

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Marcel Cox
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:01:19 +0000, Marcel Cox wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>>Just installed Rockbox on my iPod mini (1st generation) - I have to
>>admit that I'm really impressed.
>>
>>Anyone else here play with this or with the version of Linux that runs
>>on iPods?
> 
> I colleague of mine has played with it. He is very impressed with
> Rockbox, but OTOH Linux for iPod seems to be a product you don't want to
> install because it is unstable an is very poor in functionality compared
> to rockbox.

That's been my impression from reading about both - Rockbox also seems to 
have a much smaller memory footprint as well.

Jim
-- 
 Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1

On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:10:42 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:01:19 +0000, Marcel Cox wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 
>>>Just installed Rockbox on my iPod mini (1st generation) - I have to
>>>admit that I'm really impressed.
>>>
>>>Anyone else here play with this or with the version of Linux that
runs
>>>on iPods?
>> 
>> I colleague of mine has played with it. He is very impressed with
>> Rockbox, but OTOH Linux for iPod seems to be a product you don't want
>> to install because it is unstable an is very poor in functionality
>> compared to rockbox.
> 
> That's been my impression from reading about both - Rockbox also seems
> to have a much smaller memory footprint as well.

But on the flip side it also seems to have a serious negative effect on 
the battery life. :-(

Jim
-- 
 Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1

On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:59:45 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:

> Just installed Rockbox on my iPod mini (1st generation) - I have to
> admit that I'm *really* impressed.
> 
> Anyone else here play with this or with the version of Linux that runs
> on iPods?
> 
> What about hardware mods - anyone replace their battery (I have, very
> easy to do) or upgrade the flash drive?  Flash drive upgrade might be
> next - an 8 GB CFII card is running about $70 these days, might be a
> cheap way to double my storage.
> 
> Wondering what others' experience is.
> 
> Jim

Just received my 16 GB CF card - found one for $60 through newegg.  It's 
installed now, just restoring the contents of the microdrive.

This will be interesting - the HOWTOs that I've read suggest using iTunes 
to restore the firmware; the firmware is just stored on a partition on 
the microdrive, though, so my thought is that I *should* be able to just 
image/restore the microdrive itself.  Unless Apple puts a checksum in 
that says what size the drive is when the firmware is updated (but that 
would be weird).  Once restored, I should also be able to use GNU Parted 
to resize the data partition.

Just wish I could tell how far it was in restoring it.  If it works, then 
"dd" would seem to be a way to do this and retain your existing 
configuration.

Jim
-- 
 Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1