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Woo-hoo! Upgrade Successful!!!!
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Posted by: retroactive2

Once I got past the snag I was having, it was a snap! With Kazymyr's help via e-mail, I was able to figure out which partition I needed to write to using this command: cfdisk /dev/hda
Then the rest of the upgrade took less than an hour and works beautifully! I have a 93-hour Tivo now!
In the next edition of the Hinsdale how-to, someone shoudl definitely toss the cfdisk command above into the footnote for Windows XP users!
Thanks again, Kazymyr!:cool:

Posted by: linh

When and why did you have to the cfdisk command? I'm using Windows XP Pro myself.

What type of Tivo did you have: SA or DirecTivo?

Posted by: retroactive2

I had a single-drive SA Philips Tivo. I had to run the cfdisk command so I could figure out which hda partition I needed to write to. If you haven't seen it already, booting into Windows XP with your Tivo drives attached is a big no-no because it writes a potentially fatal signature on the drives apparently. So you need to create a FAT32 partition on your Windows XP C:drive using a program like Bootit. Then use the cfdisk command in the Linux bootdisk to figure out which HDA partition to use -- i.e. HDA1, HDA2, HDA3, etc. Hope this helps you.
BTW, I just purchased another hard drive last night from Dell -- GREAT OFFER, IT EXPIRES JAN. 7, LOOK FOR INFO IN POSTS ON THIS BOARD -- and as soon as it gets here, I'm going to upgrade my other Tivo unit. It's that easy.