[Ipodlinux-devel] ppc ipod questions

[Florin B. <fl...@bn...>]

hello everybody!

i finally managed to build a toolchain for arm (arm-uclinux), compile 
the kernel with patches for build from ppc (as described by steven in 
his email), patch the firmware etc.

my question is: what about partitioning? mac ipods have a different 
partitioning. do i have to repartition my ipod to match the win-ipod 
version?

and if i do: are there any restrictions about partition sizes, layouts 
etc? or is it sufficient if i make a firmware partition of ~35 megs and 
split the rest of the disk into different partitions?

i'm asking because... well, since i'm going to destroy my mp3 collection 
anyway (or maybe not -- i could do a dd from my 3rd partition [data 
partition on an mac-ipod] and mount it read-only via loopback to get 
back my data -- there is a HFS+ filesystem patch somewhere around the 
net which seems to work well in ro-mode :-) i'd like to change 
partitionig scheme. i want my ipod to have different partitions, i.e. 
for / /var and /home/music. / and /home/music could be mounted read-only 
(i assume ipod-linux will be just as upset about power-off while system 
is running as any other linux) and only mount a small partition (about 
200 MB?) rw, for files that need to be accessed rw access while system 
is running (like several log files, and maybe some address books...)

best regards,
florin (with a strong desire to irrecoverably destroy his ipod).