ipod on FC3

[Juan Gabriel Florez]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:40:30 -0500, Juan Gabriel Florez
> 
> 
> <jgflorez at gmail.com> 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.
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