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Newbie Esleed install
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Posted by: melvis64

Hello, I have an unmodified DSR 6000 running 3.1. I would like to load the caller id program esleed on it. What would be the best way to load the program onto my stock DSR 6000. If getting a turbonet card would be the easiest, then I will get one.

Posted by: Lord Nimon

Read this:

http://www.stevejenkins.com/tivo/newbie.html

After you've thoroughly read the whole thing and have hacked your TiVo to get a shell prompt, then we can help you.

Posted by: atreyu

I did it without getting a shell prompt or installing TurboNet, by using the TurboNet installation CD, the instructions here and Dylan's Boot Floppy, found here.

A warning -- for all I know I complicated this unneccessarily, but hey, it worked!

First, I did steps of 1-9 of the TurboNet software install directions. The author of elseed told me I needed to do this because elseed won't work on a DirecTivo until the PROM has been flashed (done on step 6).

Couldn't figure out how to access the TiVo volumes just using the TurboNet software, though, but managed to access them using part of the "newbie" instructions Lord Nimon referenced above. I first followed steps 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, adding elseed, elseed_forever.sh and my pre-prepared elseed.conf file (custom number-name mappings) to the files copied to the DOS disk (btw, if your A drive is unlocked, you don't need qunlock.exe, and the DOS disk doesn't have to be a boot disk).

Then I followed steps 2.4 through 2.10, copying elseed and elseed_forever.sh to /var/hack (/mnt9/hack), as well.

I then copied my elseed.conf to /mnt4/etc and /mnt7/etc .

Then (whew!), using section 2.11 as a guide, I jumped to the elseed INSTALL instructions, found in the elseed download tar. Step 2.

I quickly figured out that the TurboNet install had done some weird stuff to the rc.sysinit in /mnt7/etc/rc.d, so I only did my mods on /mnt4/etc/rc.d, which was clearly (to me) my active root partition.

Through alot of trial & error, I finally got elseed to run reliably by using the "alternate" installation method (Method B), elseed_forever.sh and a custom modem init string like this:

/var/hack/elseed_forever.sh -i 'AT+FCLASS=8;+VCID=1' &

Oh, almost forgot! That won't work, either, without a minor mod to elseed_forever.sh -- just edit it using joe, and change the '/var/hack/bin' reference on the 'export PATH' line to '/var/hack'.

Anyway, it worked for me... good luck to you!

Posted by: TomP

Lord Nimon:
You know, you had rather waste the time to post so bull than to help someone. If you can't answer the mans question, don't answer at all, and thats goes for everyone. Maybe you car will break down on the road someday and you'll see the results of your actions!!
You just show you smarts by doing that!!!
TomP

Posted by: microwiz

um, from where I'm sitting, it looks like Lord Nimon *is* answering the question. That appears to be a necessary step in getting that to work.

My personal rule is, if I feel like posting something that uses multiple exclamation points (for emphasis, not as part of code), to wait at least a day before posting it. That gives me time to consider it and, perhaps, say it more courteously, in a way that others can listen to and act on if they choose.

But that's just me. YMMV.