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MFS Tools Backup Image Snag
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Posted by: bball-love

I'm following the Hinsdale guide to replacing my (S1 Phillips) drive with a
120gb drive.

After I enter the mount command in step 7...
"At # prompt both Boot CD and Floppy users type the following commands to mount your C: drive:"

mkdir /mnt/dos

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

It says "you must specify the filetype"

Any ideas on what I need to do to get a proper backup?

Posted by: gjustice

I'd bet your hard drive's DOS partition isn't the first partition. If you have a Compaq, HP, Dell, or some others, there is a small diagnostic partition at the beginning of the disk.

Try /dev/hda2 and see what you get.

Also, make sure, when you boot linux, to scroll back up and verify the drive letters hda b c and d. You should see the make and model of each drive.

Posted by: azitnay

It's also worth mentioning that if you have an NTFS partition (Windows 2000 and Windows XP will most likely default to NTFS), mount can only mount it read-only, so you won't be able to save your backup to it. I connected a spare 10GB hard disk formatted FAT32 to make my backups.

Drew

Posted by: weaknees

Try:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/dos

instead.

Michael

Posted by: janderson

Used guide to upgrade and got to the backup stage and had an error. After that was unable to boot when putting original drive back in TiVo. I thought I was folllowing the guide closely... I need the recordings on the original drive....can anyone help? :(

Posted by: mschex

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

This worked for me -- I had exactly the same problem as the original poster. I had formatted a new scratch drive using a Windows Me recovery disk.

Mike