Another way to get your iPod to work on MEPIS 6.0

I received a iPod nano this past Christmas, and have found a way to get it to work with MEPIS 6.0.

I plugged the iPod to a USB 2.0 port, then while the unit was charging, I typed dmesg to get the device name, /dev/sdb2, for the nano (PC version). Then, I typed "ls -l /dev/* | less" and found the /dev/ipod name, and that it was already linked to /dev/sdb2.

On my system, /dev/sda is a SanDisk card reader/writer, and hence /dev/sdb is linked to the iPod.

Then, I appended

/dev/ipod /media/ipod vfat users,noexec,noauto,rw,sync 0 0

to the static portion of /etc/fstab, created the /media/ipod mount point, then rebooted MEPIS.

The iPod is then ready to be used with amaroK.

Of course, I recommend that you use a MacOS-X machine and iTunes to initialize the iPod.

Next, start amaroK and select Tools -> Configure amaroK.

In the configuration screen, select Media Devices, and configure the iPod entry.

For the mount command, type "mount /dev/ipod" or "mount /media/ipod"

and for the eject command type "eject /dev/ipod" or "eject /media/ipod"