Automated Installation - SanDisk Sansa e200 Series Manual Manual

Chapter 2. Installation
encounter a problem, then the manual way is still available to you.
There are three separate components, two of which need to be installed in order to
run Rockbox:
The Sansa bootloader. The Sansa bootloader is the program that tells your player how
to load and start the original firmware. It is also responsible for any emergency,
recovery, or disk modes on your player. This bootloader is stored in special flash
memory in your Sansa and comes factory-installed. It is not necessary to modify
this in order to install Rockbox.
The Rockbox bootloader. The Rockbox bootloader is loaded from disk by the Sansa
bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox firmware and for providing
the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Sansa firmware in the player's boot
sequence.
The Rockbox firmware. Similar to the Sansa firmware, most of the Rockbox code is
contained in a "build" that resides on your player's drive. This makes it easy to
update Rockbox. The build consists of a directory called .rockbox which contains
all of the Rockbox files, and is located in the root of your player's drive.
Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in
installing.
Fonts. Rockbox can load custom fonts. The fonts are distributed as a separate package
and thus need to be installed separately. They are not required to run Rockbox
itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed.
Themes. The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes. Depending on your
taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox.

2.2.1. Automated Installation

To automatically install Rockbox, download the official installer and housekeeping tool
Rockbox Utility. It allows you to:
Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox ("Minimal Instal-
lation").
Automatically install all suggested components ("Complete Installation").
Selectively install optional components.
Install additional fonts and themes.
Install voice files and generate talk clips.
Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility.
The Rockbox manual
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