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Hinsdale Readme????????????
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Posted by: htopley

So I have upgraded my ST60 to 2 drives and tried to add airnet. It did'nt work right and now I need to restore my drive image to my original A TiVO drive. Where can I find commands and switches for the hinsdale CD. I am not talkin about the printed how to upgrade instructions. I mean some readme, or FAQ or command line instructions. I am not a Linux guy, so I don't know the commmands or switches. The restore instructions in Hinsdale how to upgrade are not working and woefully incomplete?????????? Please help. Tivo is dead for last 2 weeks and I am getting frustrated. I had a great 2 disk setup for months and then went to install Airnet card and the command structure returned some "failure problems" Now I just want to get Tivo up and running and burn the freaking AIRNet card. By the way if you buy one of these cards, make sure you can find a "Linux and Airnet compatible card" a cardbus card or anything that does not use a Prism chipset will not work. I bought 4 Diff cards in my pursuit. 9thTees website does NOT have a compatibility chart and you will play hell trying to ask OEM's if their chipset is Prism or other. Good luck, it is a Great Idea, but implementation is VERY difficult if you are not LInux compatible. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Posted by: Robert S

Hinsdale 'woefully incomplete'??? Are you serious????? What is missing??????? If you're 'not a Linux guy', what sort of documentation are you expecting to find????????? Have you read the README on the CD??????????? I don't know anything about Airnet, but if you describe what you're doing now, I might be able to help. Are you following Hinsdale's instructions????????????? Have you checked the drives aren't locked???????????????

Posted by: htopley

Hinsdale was VERY complete!! The restore section is not very thorough. I was not aware that there was a "readme" section on the CD. I downloaded the iso and created the bootable disk. My question is where can I find this magical info. I am willing to work hard at it, I just don't know what the Hinsdale disk contains in the way of utils that can restore or correct my problem. I will reinstall the drives in my PC and see what the exact error messages are. I was so frustrated with the Airnet card that I gave up and have not tried in over a week. Will the readme be on the iso prepared bootable CD. I was very aprehensive about booting XP and then looking at the CD, once again, I'm not a Linux guy, though I am willing to learn. I really appreciate your often thankless work helping us neophytes.

Posted by: Robert S

There's no problem running XP with a CD-R in the drive (It's read-only media at that point). The thing to avoid is allowing XP to boot while you have a bootable TiVo disk connected, or you'll have to re-image it to get it booting again. There's a file called README on the CD that you can open with a text editor. There are some errors in it, though (mostly relating to swap partitions), so follow Hinsdale's instructions rather than Tiger's.

To be slightly picky 'Hinsdale' refer's to the documentation - there is no 'Hinsdale CD'. In fact he refers to several CD's in the various documents. I'm assuming you're referring to the MFS Tools 2.0 CD.

There are lots of things that can go wrong. Most of them are fairly trivial to fix, but 'it didn't work' isn't specific enough.

Posted by: ThreeSoFar

At the # prompt of the 2.0 CD, hit tab a couple times and it will show the names of all programs you can run at that point that are in your path. The important ones have good usage statements. Just type the command name with no arguments (or try "-h" if that fails) and you see a usage statement explaining each option.

Also useful when doing this is using the alternate consoles. If you type "alt-f1/2/3/4"', you switch to that console and can get another # prompt. You can have a text file or usage statement visible in one, while doing other things in the other(s), like building your command line that will eventually do the work.

You can see stuff that has scrolled off the screen with shift-pageUp.

To view a text/html file, either cat it or more it.

One thing I'd like, and maybe it's already on there--is there a text browser on the CD? It's a little annoying reading the .html format with more or cat.

Posted by: htopley

OK Robert S, thanks for your patience, I have reconstructed my actions and reattempted Tive restore and installation.
1 During the attempted Airnet installation I screwed the pooch somehow.
2 I think that I shut down (power switch instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del)
3 I could not get the Airnet software installed to the tivo drive.
4 So I took it all out (2 drive ST60 series 1, Tivo A=Quantum 40GB, Tivo B=WD 120GB, and reinstalled into Tivo and YES I was careful and no loose wires or incorrect jumpers or incorrect cables. I reconnected my Tivo and and plugged in the power cable (last after all other connections) The green power switch came on and I could hear a drive seeking, but blank TV screen and no other Tivo buttons worked or illuminated.
5 I removed drives and have attempted to restore drive image to the Tivo drive A (Quantum 40GB) I have also tried to restore image (tivo.bak) to the two drive config.
6 So here is the quandrie? I boot the MFSTools 2.0 disk and it reports this hde (this is the C drive on my PC) 4 GB, hdf (this is the Tivo B on Primary Slave cable) 122 GB, hdg (Tivo A on secondary master) 40GB and hdh (Sony CD drive)
7 I then enter this
mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdf dev/hdg

I then get this /mnt/dos/tivo.bak no such file or directory

8 Since I am not a Linux expert or even novice, I am just copying the commands and adapting the drive locations to fit my machine. I need help getting Tivo back to normal. Yes Tivo was running like a charm for months in the 2 drive upgraded mode.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. I have given up on the airnet, I just want my Tivo back to normal. It has not been operational for 3 weeks almost.
Thanks again

Posted by: ThreeSoFar

The no such file step seems like maybe you skipped the mount step? Did you "mount /dev/hdxN /mnt/dos" where x is your FAT hard drive?

And I'm not positive, but you're saying " /dev/hdf dev/hdg" for your args to the restore command--aren't they supposed to be in TiVo-drive-A then -B order? Your comment above had g=A and f=B.

Posted by: Robert S

Yes, you've either failed to mount hde1 or hde1 is not your C: drive, but a hidden partition on the same disk. Try mounting hde2 or hde5 instead.