Installing Rockbox from a Mac

[jbrandtp]

Hello Forum

If you are a Mac-user, you will face a couple of problems, when installing the Rockbox-software.

When you follow west.acre's excellent instruction at:
http://www.misticriver.net/showpost....1&postcount=24

The first problem arises at #2, where you must patch the iriver-firmware with the fwpatcher.exe file. This is not possible from a Mac. You have to use a PC for doing this, or get a finished patched ihp_120.hex file from someone.

Then copy this file to the root of yor IHP.

Now get the most recent rockbox build.
When you extract this zip-file, the next problem arises:

The zip-file consist of the rockbox.iriver file and a .rockbox directory with a lot of files in. But the Mac/Unix file-system make the .rockbox directory invisible!! And therefore you can't copy it to your IHP.

Here is my sollution:
1. copy the .zip file to your IHP and extract it.
2. The unzipped file has created a directory called something like "rockbox-h120-20051205 Folder". Change the name to something easier like RB120
3. move the rockbox.iriver file out into the root
4. Open the terminal
5. Change the working directory to the RB120-directory on the IHP
6. if you write ls -a you should be able to see all the invisible files including the .rockbox directory
7. Then you move the .rockbox directory to the root with the command:
cp .rockbox ..

Now the Rockbox software should work.

Enjoy

jbrandtp

[the_winch]

Since you have to use the terminal anyway just use unzip to extract the zip.

The drive label determines where the drive will be mounted. Mine is "H100" so it is mounted to /Volumes/H100
One method to find this is to just do "ls /Volumes" while the H1x0 is connected. It should be fairly obvious which directory is your H1x0.

Once you know where the H1x0 is mounted you can use unzip to extract directly to it.

unzip -uo rockbox.zip -d /Volumes/H100/
Where rockbox.zip is the filename of the rockbox build you want to use and /Volumes/H100/ is where you player is mounted.

Since you are there you can also eject the H1x0 directly from the command line.
hdiutil eject /Volumes/H100

[jewman]

You could also type this into the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES

This shows all the files/folders that begin with a period. You might have to restart Finder for it to take effect. To reverse it, just type in the same thing but replace yes with no.
Hope this helps.