On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:58:46AM -0600, Jason Lanpher wrote: > Finally an answer that I know. When I was looking for doc's on this > same topic I checed out this site: > http://www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm This site has allot of infor on > obtaining parts for your TV. But it also has links to website with info > about hacking your Tivo. This site was also a good resource as well > http://hellcat.tyger.org/MFS/2.0/howto.html I have the mfstools CD and I have printed out just about all of the howtos, but I'm still not satisfied with the directions. Here are my gripes: 1. Windows centric All of the directions I've seen so far assume that you're going to back up onto your Windows C: drive. I don't have a Windows C: drive. In fact, I don't have an ext2 partition except for my small /boot partition. Everything else is XFS. 2. MFS tools ISO didn't boot Ok, this is probably something to do with my system. I don't understand why, but I can't boot the CD. I can boot the Debian install CDs just fine. I can boot the CD inside VMware, but I can't get the CD to boot on the bare hardware. My BIOS is the latest version, I just upgraded it so I could support the 80GB drives I'm using. 3. Source Code? There seems to be a severe lack of source code available. I haven't found anywhere that has a set of patches to a recent kernel that will give you all the kernel functionality you need to read the disklabel and mount the MFS partitions. 4. Very sparse MFS tools CD. Ok, I copied the kernel and initrd from mfstools2.iso and booted those straight off the hard drive. For a CD with a 15M initrd, it's severely lacking in common tools. man pages would be a great start. Real tools instead of busybox for everything. Also some network drivers would have been nice. They have support for nfs mounts, but nothing to set up a network connection. So as of now, I have dd'd my TiVo A drive to another drive so I can start poking around. Nate