As one of our members, you receive this mail because the linux4nano project needs your help !
As you probably know, we're working hard to decrypt the nano 2G firmwares, which is the first step to install a fully functional linux kernel on our ipods. In order to better understand how our nanos tick, we have to search as many differences as possible between different nanos 2G (for instance nanos with different colors, storage capacity, selling date, and special offers like the red one ). In order to gather any useful data, we ask you today to do some handling on your own ipod nano 2G. This handling comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY from the linux4nano team. However there is no reasons this handling break your ipod, we all do that handling a lot of times without any problem. __________________________________ 1. Download the extract2g program. - If you're running under linux/MacOS go to this page : http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/linux4nano/trunk/extract2g/ Download extract2g.i386 for a linux i386 compiled binary and it's done. If you're not running under a 386 linux download extract2g.c, extract2g.h and Makefile in a directory. Simply type make and it's done. ;) - If you're running under windows : Just download extract2g.exe and it's done. _______________________________________ 2. Dump the Apple firmwares partitions. - If you're running under linux : dd if=/dev/sdX1 of=dump.img The X in /dev/sdX1 is a letter (usually a) which correspond to your iPod device. dump.img will be create and correspond to the data dumped. - If you're running under windows : You can find another version of dd at http://www.chrysocome.net/dd. Syntax is the same, but we have to use Windows paths: First do the following :
dd --list
And search in "NT Block Device Objects" : \\?\Device\(XXXXXXXX)\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\(XXXXXXXX)\(.....) Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 2048 size is 4060086272 bytes Look for a size of 2Go, 4Go or 8Go depending your nano version. Then note the (XXXXXXX) field (which looks like Hardisk1 or something like that)
dd
if=\\?\Device\(XXXXXXX)\Partition0 of=dump.img bs=2048 skip=63 count=11860 --progress The dump.img file will be your ipod nano flash dump. ______________________________________________ 3. Hash the partitions and send us the result. - If you're running under linux : extract2g -H ./dump.img - If you're running under windows : extract2g.exe -H dump.img The result will look like : ./extract2g compiled at 14:23:05 Feb 3 2007. osos: 0x******** rsrc: 0x******** aupd: 0x******** All you have to do is sending us the result of the command (copy paste it) by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] JD. _______________________________________________ Linux4nano-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/linux4nano-dev http://www.linux4nano.org
