the first thing I did when I bought my ipod was convert it to FAT32 and I'v been having all these problems with my ipod on FAT32 On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:47:28 -0400, Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:40:30 -0500, Juan Gabriel Florez > > > <jgflorez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, I have triyed for several months to use my ipod (gen4 40GB) > > with FC2 and now FC3 wothout any success, but recently I forn this > > post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213012&perpage=15&pagenumber=3 > > in which they give a tip for recompiling the kernel without the EFI > > partition option, I tryed it and it wotks, but after doing that some > > other stuff in FC3 stoped working so I had to stop using my EFI > > disabled compiled kernel. Is there a way to disable EFI patition > > without recompiling the kernel, or does anyone have and rpm for a > > kernel compiled without EFI that works? > > I have found the EFI thing to be a bit of a red herring... you can > effectively work around the problem by converting your iPod to FAT32 > (i.e., a "Windows iPod"). This is easily done if you have access to a > Windows machine with iTunes. Once the conversion is done, you no > longer require Windows. > > The downside to this is that it requires deleting all the data on your > iPod and re-loading it. > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves >
