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Linux on the Ipod and Carpet Destruction!
Apr. 16th, 2007 04:49 amAfter having been laid low for several days due to what I suspect was "boy-are-my-fucking-furnace-filters-dirty"-related illness, I was finally able to get back out into public today. I used this opportunity to attend a splendid carpet-destroying party hosted by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
austingoddess at her not-new-but-soon-to-be-newly-bought house. Suffice to say, the Mission was Accomplished, and Fun was Had by All.
Except, perhaps, El Carpet.
I don't want people thinking I'm a geek, but I've been trying to install Linux on my new iPod. It's not working, and I believe I've narrowed the difficulty down to a difference in the new 5.5G iPods, which is that they use 2048-byte blocks on their HFS+ partitions instead of 512-byte ones like all the other iPods. Many of the installation tools seem to be hard-coded to only work properly with the default size. My solution is to re-format my Ipod to use 512-byte blocks, but I'm not exactly sure how to do this. I'm currently backing up the entire contents by way of an unrestricted dd dump onto my external firewire drive. I think there should then be a way to re-format the Ipod's hard drive to use 512-byte blocks, then copy the files back over. So the basic question is, how does one take an HFS+ partition currently operating with one block size (2048b) and end up with another block size? (512b) Anyone know how to do this?
Because iTunes, etc., works just fine with a 512b block size for all the *other* iPods, I don't think it will care that my newer one is "improperly" formated with the older size.
Another idea was to find some older 5G firmware before they created the new block size, and see if I could find a way to load it onto my iPod.
austingoddess at her not-new-but-soon-to-be-newly-bought house. Suffice to say, the Mission was Accomplished, and Fun was Had by All. Except, perhaps, El Carpet.
I don't want people thinking I'm a geek, but I've been trying to install Linux on my new iPod. It's not working, and I believe I've narrowed the difficulty down to a difference in the new 5.5G iPods, which is that they use 2048-byte blocks on their HFS+ partitions instead of 512-byte ones like all the other iPods. Many of the installation tools seem to be hard-coded to only work properly with the default size. My solution is to re-format my Ipod to use 512-byte blocks, but I'm not exactly sure how to do this. I'm currently backing up the entire contents by way of an unrestricted dd dump onto my external firewire drive. I think there should then be a way to re-format the Ipod's hard drive to use 512-byte blocks, then copy the files back over. So the basic question is, how does one take an HFS+ partition currently operating with one block size (2048b) and end up with another block size? (512b) Anyone know how to do this?
Because iTunes, etc., works just fine with a 512b block size for all the *other* iPods, I don't think it will care that my newer one is "improperly" formated with the older size.
Another idea was to find some older 5G firmware before they created the new block size, and see if I could find a way to load it onto my iPod.
