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2.2 | Prerequisites |
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Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. You may |
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need some additional tools for installation. In most cases these will already be available |
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on your computer, but if not, installing some additional software might be necessary. |
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USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your |
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| computer. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail |
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| during automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On |
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| Windows this means you need to gure out the drive letter associated with the |
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| player. On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player. | ! |
| Warning: During installation, do not connect your player using the cradle but | |
| plug the USB cable directly to the player. | |
For manual installation and customization additional software is required. |
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ZIP utility. Rockbox is distributed as a compressed archive using the .zip format. Your |
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| computer will normally already have a means of handling such archive les. Win- |
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| dows XP has |
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| unless you have installed a third party program that handles compressed les. For |
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| other operating systems this may vary. If the .zip le format is not recognised on |
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| your computer you can nd a program to handle them at |
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| or http://sevenzip.sf.net/, both of which can be downloaded and used free of charge. |
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Text editor. As you will see in the following chapters, Rockbox is highly con gurable. |
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| In addition to saving con gurations, Rockbox also allows you to create customised |
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| con guration les. If you would like to edit custom con guration les on your |
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| computer, you will need a text editor like Windows’ \Wordpad". |
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2.3 | Installing Rockbox |
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2.3.1 | Automated Installation |
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To automatically install Rockbox, download the ocial installer and housekeeping tool Rockbox Utility. It allows you to:
Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox (\Small Installa- tion")
Automatically install all suggested components (\Full Installation")
Selectively install optional components
Install additional themes
Install voice les and generate talk clips
The Rockbox manual | Toshiba Gigabeat F Series |
