Mounting an iPhone on CRUX

Posted: 2022-04-24 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

The old iPhone saga continues. I use my phone quite “lightly”, but every couple of years I think it’s a good idea to clean the photos and videos. Should be easy enough right? Heh… I naively plugged it in and nothing happened. Well, the libimobiledevice project is iPhone’s friend on Linux. So, i decided to prepare a few ports.
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Mounting an iPhone

Posted: 2018-05-07 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, media, slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Due to several reasons that I will not discuss here, I decided my next phone to be an iPhone SE. Of course, I naively expected that when I plug it in my computer, it will behave. Well, it doesn’t. The phone has iOS 11 and in Slackware 14.2 the system sees it, but there’s no way to mount it. In Slackware -current I can access my photos only. Well, I googled a bit and here’s what I did on -current.
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