CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 11
2 Installation
2.1 Overview
There are two ways of installing Rockbox: automated and manual. While the manual
way is older, more tested and proven to work correctly, the automated installation is
based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything for you. It is still
important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the
correct installation options.
There are two separate components of Rockbox that need to be installed in order to
run Rockbox.
The Rockbox bootloader. The bootloader is the program that tells your player how to
load and start other components of Rockbox. This is the component of Rockbox
that is installed to the flash memory of your Iriver.
The Rockbox firmware. Unlike the Iriver firmware, which runs entirely from flash
memory, 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.
Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in in-
stalling.
Fonts. Rockbox can load custom fonts. The fonts are distributed as a separate package
and thus need to be installed separately. They are not required to run Rockbox
itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed.
Themes. The view of Rockbox can be customized by themes. Depending on your taste
you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox.
2.2 Prerequisites
Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. You may
need some additional tools for installation. In most cases these will already be available
on your computer, but if not, installing some additional software might be necessary.
USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your
computer. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail
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