Where is the mount point of IPhone
 

Hi folks,

IPhone 3GS
KVM
Debian 5.0 - host
Ubuntu 9.04 - VMs


After connecting the USB cord to the Virtual Machine IPhone can be detected. Photos and Video on the IPhone can be download to the PC, the host.

But I can't find the mount point of the IPhone either on /mnt or /media. "fdisk -l" can find it as well.


I'm now following following thread to sync IPhone to PC;
How to connect iPhone/iPod Touch (Using USB) in Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-con...epidhardy.html

Unfortunately I don't have a spare PC for this testing. Therefore I install iFuse on a VM of the Virtual Machine. The installation is completed, no problem encountered. However after connection via the USB cord IPhone can be detected by the host. Photos and Video on the IPhone can be download to the host without problem. But IPhone can't be detected by the VM. Neither can I find the mountpoint of the IPhone on the host. I'm still struggling to sort out this problem. Where is the mountpoint. If without result I have to find a spare PC for this test.

Please advise. TIA


B.R.
satimis

Hya,

Have you tried "mount"?

Happy Penguins!

Hi kaz2100,

Yes, I succeed mounting the IPhone with following steps on a desktop PC running Ubuntu 8.04

1) Install iFuse
2) On console run;
$ sudo usbmuxd
$ suto mkdir -p /media/iphone
3) Plugin the IPhone
4) $ sudo ifuse /media/iphone

Then I can read the directories on IPhone. Proceed further steps as follows;

$ cp /path/to/.mp3 /media/iphone/iPod_Control/Music/F01
also

$ cp /path/to/.mp3 /media/iphone/Podcasts/

Music file has been copied. It can be removed without problem. However on starting the IPhone, IPod can't read them.


Proceed furthermore;

$ sudo aptitude install gtkpod

Start gtkpod. Copy music files on Podcasts. Still the music files can't be read on IPhone. I think IPod has been encrypted.


I came across a video on YouTube (or on Internet, I can't recall exactly) before. It instructs how to decrypted IPod.

Any clue other than running iTunes 9 on Windows/VirtualBox.


B.R.
satimis