Chapter 2.
Installation
14
development, you should stick with the release.
Please now go to section
2.2.3
(page
14
) to complete the installation procedure.
2.2.2 Manual Installation
The manual installation method is still available to you, should you need or desire it by
following the instructions below. If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox,
then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section
2.2.3
(page
14
)
Installing the firmware
1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section.
2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that
came with your player.
3. Take the
.zip
file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of
your unzip program to extract the files onto your player.
Note:
The entire contents of the
.zip
file should be extracted directly to the root of
b
your player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the
Rockbox files! The
.zip
file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs.
If the contents of the
.zip
file are extracted correctly, you will have a file called
ajbrec.ajz
in the main directory of your player’s drive, and also a directory called
.rockbox
, which contains a number of other directories and system files needed by
Rockbox.
2.2.3 Finishing the install
Safely eject / unmount the USB drive, unplug the cable and restart.
2.2.4 Enabling Speech Support (optional)
If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file. Voice files allow Rockbox
to speak the user interface to you. Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file, or
you can download it from
http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml
and unzip it to the root
of your player. Rockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with
different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on
your computer. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a
reboot. See section
8.8
(page
58
) for details on voice settings. Rockbox Utility can also
aid in the production of talk files, which allow Rockbox to speak file and folder names.
The Rockbox manual
Archos Recorder
