Chapter 2. Installation
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2. Installation
Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure. However before beginning
there are a few important things to know.
2.1. Before Starting
USB connection.
To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your
computer.
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.
2.2. Installing Rockbox
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 Olympus bootloader.
The Olympus bootloader is the program that tells your player
how to load and start the original firmware. It is also responsible for any emer-
gency, recovery, or disk modes on your player. This bootloader is stored in special
flash memory in your Olympus 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 Olympus
bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox firmware and for providing
the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Olympus firmware in the player’s
boot sequence.
The Rockbox firmware.
Similar to the Olympus 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.
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
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