Tried to look at my ipod on puppy linux 5.2 It is detected and reports ipod but also unknown device

Please can anyone tell me what I need to do to start under puppy?
Many thanks Chris

for starters puppy is a VERY minimal distro

under 200 meg
it dose NOT come with anything "extra"

also puppy 5.2 is OLD !!! and from Jan. 2011
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux...nux/puppy-5.2/

-- if this is the slightly newer 5.2.8
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux...x/puppy-5.2.8/
it is only slightly newer April 2012

the current is 5.7.1
-- royally messed up web address ( blank spaces in the name )
"http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm"


as to an "ipad" it is using the Apple HFS+ partition format
( like Windows 7 uses the Microsoft format NTFS )
that software will need to be installed

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John Thank you for your kind reply
I was trying to use an old ipod player rather than the ipad. I will try the newer Puppy distro you suggest to see if that will work but I dont think I will get into creating new partitions just for the ipod.

I am ancient but am a long time novice Linux user and like to try new distros on a couple of spare oldish machines from time to time. I like Puppy as it is so small and is ok for a office applications and surprisingly quick from switch on. I have tried some heavier Fedora and Ubuntu LTS distros which are more comprehensive.

[QUOTE=John VV;5009348]for starters puppy is a VERY minimal distro

"I was trying to use an old ipod player rather than the ipad."
my mistake

if the ipod was activated on a Windows xp machine then is is formatted as Fat32
if it was activated on an Apple computer it is formatted to HFS or HFS+

even on old version of puppy should be able to read a fat32 partition

as for USING an older ipod
you will NEED to be running "GTKpod" or rhythmbox

gtkpod trys to replace itoons

Thanks john that sounds like the solution I want I will try it