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Hinsdale How to suggestion....
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Posted by: Pinnocchio

Guys thanks for a great document....

I successfully upgraded a SA Tivo to 2 x 120GB over the last two months in two seperate passes.

As a non linux person though (sorry mainly a M$ fan!) I would make a couple of suggestions learned from experience in the second upgrade that could be reflected in the how to.

In the first upgrade I was upgrading from a 40GB new machine to a single 120GB...I firstly did a virgin backup to a single partition 120GB drive (FAT32) and all went well...I then reinserted the 40GB and did my initial system setup and the software updates rolled down and some season passes were set up. I then did the second backup from the 40GB to the single partition 120GB and again all went fine....outcome 120GB Tivo with 40Hrs Best Qual and 140Hrs basic.

In the second upgrade things went a little bit differently....

I'm now using an Abit IT7 board which has a load of installed components as standard (Firewire, USB 2, RAID, etc...) consequently the screen load section runs so far into the setup that I can't use (SHIFT + PAGE UP) to go up and see what size the drives are reporting...as more and more M/Boards get more components as standard this is a problem that may happen increasingly frequently. The second problem is that this time I was backing up to a 60GB drive but with two FAT32 partitions....now all you linus dudes will know that this means partitions are referred to as HDA1, HDA2 etc...I HAD NO CLUE! and as I couldn't read the drive information for the reason stated above it took me an hour of googling to work out what was going on.

Anyway got it all working in the end and now have a SA Thompson reporting 84Hrs best and 294Hrs basic...also used the opportunity to install a turbonet card so things should get more interesting from here.

Regards and thanks again.

P