mounting iPod in Linux

fumbles · 7 Jun 2007 at 02:10

Hello,

Basically I want to mount my iPod to my laptop so it can just charge and play music. I'm using Arch Linux, 2.6.21-ARCH i686, atm I've just put this into fstab:

Code:

/dev/sda2               /mnt/ipod       vfat defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0

Thanks!

fumbles · 7 Jun 2007 at 10:59

Yeah I don't think I've explain it right...

I don't really want to mount it as such, but to have it just charging off the computer. So I can listen to it while on the computer.

Thanks for the help!

fumbles · 7 Jun 2007 at 15:40

EVH said:
Doesn't it charge when you connect it to the USB port?

Providing the USB is active of course.

It does, but it displays that "Do Not Disconnect" message.

fumbles · 8 Jun 2007 at 05:20

EVH said:
Yes, it does that anyway.. perfectly normal message.

The only way it will charge without the message is if you turn off the iPod after connecting it to USB, however, this won't let you listen to the music on the iPod

hmm, so there is no solution? If it was Windows and I had iTunes it would work. I was wondering if the same would work if I installed the open source iTunes clone for Linux programmes? Also wondering if it would take up a lot of system resources, which is very important on a laptop like this.

fumbles · 9 Jun 2007 at 02:00

M0KUJ1N said:
Unmounting it should do the job

unfortunately it doesn't.