Why do you need to erase it? I in stalled the Panther developer preview when it came out back in the day on my iPod, and I didn't have to erase the contents of my iPod first — I just plugged it in in Firewire Disk mode, and selected it in the installer. It just put a system folder in the root directory of my iPod and left everything else there.
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Why do you need to erase it? I in stalled the Panther developer preview when it came out back in the day on my iPod, and I didn't have to erase the contents of my iPod first — I just plugged it in in Firewire Disk mode, and selected it in the installer. It just put a system folder in the root directory of my iPod and left everything else there.