We Are Not A Football Team.

I spent the day thinking I had bricked my ipod. I could mount it under linux and gtkpod recognized it but it wouldn’t create the directories or iTunesDB that it needed. Turns out after I partitioned the iPod and dd’ed the firmware on it I unmounted it and set my language and preferences.
When you do this the firmware creates the needed directories but does not create an itunesDB stub. The trick was to remove everything from the iPod’s data partition and then use gtkpod to create the needed files. Not that anyone cares but at least now I can google it and solve this problem in the future… future… future…