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problem with nic_install_cachecard.zip

Hi all,

My cachecard should be arriving on my doorstep sometime later today. I'm now in the process of trying to install the cachecard drivers but I'm not having a whole lot of luck... I downloaded nic_install_cachecard.zip & the nic_cd ISO, and followed the instructions as outlined in jafas install thread. But I'm not having any luck even getting the drivers to install. I unzipped nic_install_cachecard.zip on my Windows 2000 box and placed all the files on a brand new floppy. I then went to my tivo hacking box where I have my TiVo drive hooked up as primary slave. I booted off the CD and mounted the floppy but when I try to execute nic_install I get various errors. Once I got a segmentation fault, and a few times I get an error stating that the file can't be executed. Yes, I chmod'd the file. (Even though an ls -l showed all the files were marked as executable to begin with)

One thing I find odd is that when I do an ls -l of the floppy I see all the files from nic_install_cachecard.zip but I also see some garbage filenames like this:

f\026\003f\034\023v\036.\003f\016
?<\351msdos.5.0
\344???{\344??

That last file has a reported size of over 980MB. Pretty nifty for a 1.4MB floppy! So what on earth am I doing wrong? I've tried multiple floppies, formatted as both FAT & FAT32, but no matter what I do I end up with all sorts of really flaky behavior. In case it's important I'm hacking an older Philips Series1 PTV300 that I recently upgraded to two new drives.

-Bruce

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Well I managed to figure out the problem (sort of). Apparently the PC that I was using to hack the TiVo drive with doesn't get along with the TiVo stuff at all... It's a Dell XPS T800. I've had it about 2 years and it's had no problems at all running Windows. (I never tried linux on this particular box though) On a whim I tried using a friends PC that has a generic Intel motherboard in it. That one worked like a charm the first try. So there's apparently something in at least this particular model of Dell PC that doesn't get along with the various TiVo boot CD's that are out there...

-Bruce

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