Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Can't mount iPod.

[Adam S. <ipo...@ad...>]

Zach Hobbs (za...@fi...) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I bought a 10 gig "Mac and Windows" iPod and an IEEE 1394 card that is 
> on the list of suported hardware.  When I fdisk /dev/sda I see the iPod, but 
> not the partitions.  It says it's not of a known file system type.

I think it has trouble understanding the partition table.

> Do I have a HFS+ iPod?

Yes, the latest generation iPods come preformatted as HFS+.

> Most instructions for converting the HFS+ to FAT32 have you dd 
> /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda2 doesn't exist for me.  

It does once you've created it with fdisk as per the instructions
(e.g. the ones on the GNUpod page).  It all worked perfectly on my
30GB model.