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Linux newbie needs help!!!
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Posted by: d34u

Today I received my Samsung 120 GB HD to add to my Hughes DirecTiVo GXCEBOT, but couldn't find the Hinsdale How-To. Then I found the how-to in the MFS Tools readme.

Here's my problem (I think): In the "Backing Up A Single Drive TiVo" section, I followed all instructions, and originally typed "mount /dev/hda /mnt/dos" which didn't work, so after begging, a kind soul emailed a copy of Hinsdales, which has the line, but has "hda1" in the line instead of just "hda".

Now, after continuing by typing the "mfsbackup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc" and pressing enter, I just get the message "/mnt/dos/tivo.bak: Read only file system." I also noticed that it's only reading the drive at about 30GB when the first time it did read it at 120GB. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.:confused:

Posted by: bsnelson

What OS are you running on the PC? If you're doing NTFS, Linux can only do read-only on it.

I don't understand what you're saying about the "reading the drive at 30GB"?

Brad

Posted by: d34u

I'm running XP Home Edition. When I initially boot up with the MFS Tools 2.0, it reads the available space on my new 120GB HD as approx. 30GB.
But I read in the How-To that if it's "locked" it would only read 9-10MB.

I set it up just like the How-To suggests: hda=PC's C Drive, hdb=new large drive, hdc=original TiVo A drive (40GB) and hdd=CD-ROM.

Thanks again.

Posted by: weaknees

The problem with your 120 GB drive is likely that its jumpered to <32GB. Check the jumper settings watching carefully to make sure you aren't reading them upside down.

Do you know how your HD in your PC was formatted? It needs to have a FAT partition - or you can just skip making the backup and write the image directly to the new drive.

Michael

Posted by: d34u

You were right on both counts! Thanks so much!!!

I was hoping to use both the original 40GB and the new 120GB, but using just the 120 should be fine for my purposes. My daughter needed a new HDD anyway, so I'll give her the 40!