Updating a first gen ipod nano

So...

Today i tried to get an old nano to recognize the ipod+nike sensor. This required a firmware upgrade. Wanting to do it the safe way, i booted into my "for bios updates and the like only" windows installation and downloaded itunes.

Itunes did install w/o any probs and looked just enough out-of-place to know this aint gonna work. Why cant anybody use standart widgets anymore? Im serious, all windows media-players look so terribly unusable at first sight! (At least to me) ;-)

And for sure the update didnt work. Unknown error 1417 on the update try, 1418 while trying to restore to factory-settings! All solutions found on various web-sites didnt help, so i decided to just go back to what i know usually works...

1 Google, 1 Download, 1 Unzip and 2 dd's later the ipod happily talked to the sensor thanks to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_iPod_Firmware

Happy running!!
:-)