Re: tivo surgery advice sought

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Ant wrote:

> Having finally made it through a 19 episode backlog of ST:DS9 my Tivo
is now
> nil-by-mouth and ready for surgery.
>
> I plan to install a tivonet card and replace the HD with something
meatier.
>
> I'm far too lazy to read tivocommunity, so can someone tell me what
the
> current state-of-the-art hacking tools are?

2 main options.... the full monty described on Tony's site
www.freeranger.co.uk which takes longer and preserves your recordings
etc, or the faster, no recordings saved option, where you take a backup
(around 300MB) to a FAT partition and then restore it to your new drive.
Full details of making a backup and restore are on Hinsdales at
http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

Personally, I'd recommend doing a backup whatever, incase of future
problems..... I had to use mine when one of my HDs went a bit dicky.
I've also had *countless* people with b0rked Tivos with no backup
downloading my image from my ftp.

Tony's site has the links to the latest TurboNet software, it really is
a piece of p*ss to install... :-)

> Oh, and is it best to do the ethernet card first or second?

It's up to you...... (assuming using the backup method, not dd as on
Tony's site) I'd take a backup (for safety) as soon as the drive is
pulled, after that, if you wanted to turbonet, then upgrade, you'd need
to turbonet your current drive, then take another backup, then restore
and expand to new drives. Personally, I did backup, restore & expand,
then turbonet, but that meant when I had to re-use the backup, I needed
to re apply turbonet.

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Doogie