Installation; Before Starting; Installing Rockbox - Toshiba Gigabeat F Series User Manual

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Chapter 2. Installation

2. Installation

Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure. However before beginning

there are a few things it is important to know.

USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your com-

puter. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail during

automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On Windows

this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player. On Linux

you need to know the mount point of your player. On Mac OS X you need to know

the volume name of your player.

The installation requires you to change a setting in the original ﬁrmware. Make

sure the option under Setup

gigabeat room. Also, during installation, do not connect your player using the

cradle but plug the USB cable directly to the player.

There are two ways to install Rockbox: automated and manual. The automated way is

the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people. Rockbox Utility

is a graphical application that does almost everything for you. However, should you

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 Toshiba bootloader. The Toshiba 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 Toshiba 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 Toshiba

bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox ﬁrmware and for providing

the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Toshiba ﬁrmware in the player's

boot sequence.

The Rockbox manual

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