Hacking your Series 2 DTivo just got a WHOLE lot easier...

[BBQ-AllStar]

I think your mindset is still entrenched in the way we used to hack things on the series 1 units with 2.5Xtreme at DDB. We generally don't do anything with rc.sysinit anymore. It's all handled in rc.sysinit.author. Try uninstalling the Zipper script and then reinstalling it to get the USB ports working again. I believe there's a readme file for the Zipper that explains how this is done.

Yep, I edited my post...it was rc.sysinit.author that I edited via TivoWebPlus.

I'm gonna try to telnet via serial and see if I can replace the rc.sysinit.author file that I edited with the saved rc.sysinit.author.ORIG that was there before...

If all else fails...I'll re-zipper...

[kewashi]

Has anyone gotten JavaHMO running on a Linux box? I got it going without a hitch on my Windows box once I figured out I had to install JRE 1.3 first and then JAI, etc. On my Linux box JAI installed fine on top of JRE 1.4 and then JavaHMO installed, but the jhmo start command doesn't launch a service that sticks. It starts and then stops after about a minute. I'm runing Red Hat Fedora Core 4.

[tec007]

Has anyone gotten JavaHMO running on a Linux box? I got it going without a hitch on my Windows box once I figured out I had to install JRE 1.3 first and then JAI, etc. On my Linux box JAI installed fine on top of JRE 1.4 and then JavaHMO installed, but the jhmo start command doesn't launch a service that sticks. It starts and then stops after about a minute. I'm runing Red Hat Fedora Core 4.

Is this in the right thread?

[sjmaye]

well USB 1.1 is what 11 megabit?
USB 2.0 is much faster, so unless you are going to be wired, or using a wired connection into a wireless G bridge, there's no need for 2.0 drivers, but there's no harm in installing them either since 2.0 will fall back to 1.1 if it needs to.
and your 60 gig XP drive will be fine since the image install will totally wipe the drive.
Just be aware the 7200 RPM drives run hotter than 5400 rpm ones.

I saw post about checking transfer speed, but only for a server. Is there a test to verify that the USB 2.0 drivers are working correctly?

[ttodd1]

Has anyone gotten JavaHMO running on a Linux box? I got it going without a hitch on my Windows box once I figured out I had to install JRE 1.3 first and then JAI, etc. On my Linux box JAI installed fine on top of JRE 1.4 and then JavaHMO installed, but the jhmo start command doesn't launch a service that sticks. It starts and then stops after about a minute. I'm runing Red Hat Fedora Core 4.

Yes I have gotten it to work on FC4 and FC5, but as tec007 said this is not the thread for that.

[Lord Vader]

Got a general question and was wondering if this would work. My brother's hard drive on his HDVR2 is dying. (He lives 1100 miles away, BTW.) If I get a replacement virgin drive for him, Zipper it, and use a new-in-box HDVR2 that I've got in storage (got a couple new ones of those that have never been used) to see if it works, will it then work in his current HDVR2 if I then ship it to him?

I guess what I'm asking is if the drive somehow "marries" itself to the motherboard and other things of the unit into which it is first installed. In other words, if I Zipper the drive and everything, will it work if I then remove it to ship to him as a replacement drive?

[Gunnyman]

all he'd have to do is telnet in and run 51killer.tcl to marry the zippered drive to the new TiVo. Alternately he can do a Clear and Delete Everything on the new drive.

[kewashi]

Yes I have gotten it to work on FC4 and FC5, but as tec007 said this is not the thread for that.


Sorry about that folks - I read this thread daily so I guess I had a lazy moment... I'll pursue in the right place. In the mean time I appreciate knowing that it can work with FC4.

[tec007]

Just out of curiosity, with a Zippered unit, if one would leave their phone line plugged in for Caller ID purposes and something happened with with Fakebake and/or Cron and the unit ended up calling home.

What would the damage be?

Hasn't happened to me but just worried cron may mess up.

[rbautch]

I saw post about checking transfer speed, but only for a server. Is there a test to verify that the USB 2.0 drivers are working correctly?With USB2.0, you'll see tytool e%tractions jump from about 700 kbps to 2 Mbps. Taking a netperf before and after is also a good benchmark.

[cheer]

Just out of curiosity, with a Zippered unit, if one would leave their phone line plugged in for Caller ID purposes and something happened with with Fakebake and/or Cron and the unit ended up calling home.

What would the damage be?

Hasn't happened to me but just worried cron may mess up.
You could get MAK keys assigned which will expire, breaking MRV (and HMO maybe? I dunno). The fix would be to re-run the superpatch.

[sjmaye]

With USB2.0, you'll see tytool e%tractions jump from about 700 kbps to 2 Mbps. Taking a netperf before and after is also a good benchmark.

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

[sjmaye]

For another layer of protection you can run phonereset.tcl. This will put a # sign in front of the phone number, so that even if the unit tries to call Tivo it will not be able to complete the call.

My Zippered drive has been working great now for about 2 days. I have no idea how, but caller ID is working now. I am afraid somehow the unit will get a call out and ruin the Zipper.

I saw the post above and performed the phonereset.tcl. I looked at system info and it said:

Phone Call:

Last Successful: Sunday, Aug 20 at 11:20 pm
Last Attempt: Sunday, Aug 20 at 11:20 pm
Last Status: Succeeded
Next Scheduled: Mondy, Aug 21 at 7:00 pm

All the changes with the Zipper appear in tact.

Do I have any need to worry?

[quickag]

That worked *perfectly*. Many thanks!

[Brillian1080p]

Hey Gunnyman and rbautch,

I wanted to report that my HR10-250 has been working fine after Zippering a few days ago. I don't have an FA120 yet, so I've only been able to serial cable in. I ran the enhancement script and that was successful.

While waiting for the FA120 I've been trying to learn more about using the bash, but now I only get and echo back.

If I remember right I read somewhere here about turning off the echo in the Tivo, but if you can't get in...?

[rbautch]

My Zippered drive has been working great now for about 2 days. I have no idea how, but caller ID is working now. I am afraid somehow the unit will get a call out and ruin the Zipper.

I saw the post above and performed the phonereset.tcl. I looked at system info and it said:

Phone Call:

Last Successful: Sunday, Aug 20 at 11:20 pm
Last Attempt: Sunday, Aug 20 at 11:20 pm
Last Status: Succeeded
Next Scheduled: Mondy, Aug 21 at 7:00 pm

All the changes with the Zipper appear in tact.

Do I have any need to worry?Check this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3355224&&#post3355224) out. As long as the "next scheduled" keeps getting pushed back, you're fine. Look for this in the Settings/Phone menu, not the system info.

[rbautch]

You could get MAK keys assigned which will expire, breaking MRV (and HMO maybe? I dunno). The fix would be to re-run the superpatch.Last year I wrote this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3115144&&#post3115144) little tcl script that searches for and deletes MRV expiration certificates. It's called
cert-remover.tcl and is included with the enhancement script and the Zipper. I wasn't aware that superpatch did the same thing. Does it? Perhaps we're talking about two different things.

[Brillian1080p]

rbautch,

Since you're here, any thoughts on post 7017?

Also looking in system infomation the old fashioned way I have this;

Debug old SS = 3

New SS = 10

SS ERR = 0X1F0008

Should I investigate this?

Thanks.

[sjmaye]

Check this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3355224&&#post3355224) out. As long as the "next scheduled" keeps getting pushed back, you're fine. Look for this in the Settings/Phone menu, not the system info.

I was looking in the wrong place. I will check the Settings/Phone menu instead. Thanks.

Can you comment on the phonereset.tcl command I mentioned. Does it work?

[rbautch]

I posted Version 1.7 of the Zipper. Here are the changes:

1. Now invoking the network script differently to make sure it gets run only once when the tivo boots for the first time. Previously, it was run from the author file, and depended on the enhancement script to sed it out of there, which occasionally didn’t work for some users.

2. Now installing backported drivers from the Zipper script while the drive is still in the PC. This should open up the list of compatible adapters that work right out of the box to include the Linksys USB200M Version 2, Airlink ASOHOUSB, and Airlink AGIGAUSB. Special thanks to JamieP who did the real work of backporting the drivers, and generously giving permission to use them here. Also thanks to rpdre1 for pestering me to do this, and contributing some code.

Let’s consider this a beta until I have a chance to fully test some of the tweaks I made after initial testing yesterday.

[agzela]

If and when D*** decides to release the 6.2 upgrade for the HR10-250 what will happen to my zippered drive? Will I need to rezipper it? Will the zipper recognize the version and add the enhancements accordingly?

[Gunnyman]

nothing will happen
you will have the software on your HDTivo, but it won't install.
Not that we'll ever see the update anyway.

[rpdre1]

The new Zipper 1.7 beta doesn't work (bad path used for the ax8817x.o -> usbnet.o symlink; the symlink is hardcoded with /tivo in the path, I mentioned this here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4283926&&#post4283926) ), I PM'd rbautch a fix (cd /tivo/lib/modules and then run ln with just the filenames).


If you ran it the Zipper beta already and want a fix now before rbautch can upload a fixed version (should take him 2mins to fix), PM me for a script that will fix your networking.

[Lord Vader]

all he'd have to do is telnet in and run 51killer.tcl to marry the zippered drive to the new TiVo. Alternately he can do a Clear and Delete Everything on the new drive.

That's probably the easiest thing for him to do, Gunny. The less technical messing around he'd have to do, the better.

[rbautch]

The new Zipper 1.7 beta doesn't work (bad path used for the ax8817x.o -> usbnet.o symlink; the symlink is hardcoded with /tivo in the path, I mentioned this here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4283926&&#post4283926) ), I PM'd rbautch a fix (cd /tivo/lib/modules and then run ln with just the filenames).


If you ran it the Zipper beta already and want a fix now before rbautch can upload a fixed version (should take him 2mins to fix), PM me for a script that will fix your networking.Fixed.

[smolz]

Don't know why it wouldn't reboot the second time around. Next time you try the Zipper, before you unmount your drive, check two things:

1. There should be a file called /tivo/reboot_flag on your drive. This signals the author file to reboot the tivo the first time it encouters it.

2. Check your author file for a line that reads something like: tivosh /hacks/network.tcl $ipaddress $routerip.

If these two things are present, your network parameters should get set, then your tivo should reboot.


just 1 question...where is the author file located on the tivo drive?

[Gunnyman]

/etc/rc.d

[Brillian1080p]

If I send my Wife's chocolate chip cookies will you answer my questions on the previous page? Pretty please?

[Gunnyman]

Hey Gunnyman and rbautch,

I wanted to report that my HR10-250 has been working fine after Zippering a few days ago. I don't have an FA120 yet, so I've only been able to serial cable in. I ran the enhancement script and that was successful.

While waiting for the FA120 I've been trying to learn more about using the bash, but now I only get and echo back.

If I remember right I read somewhere here about turning off the echo in the Tivo, but if you can't get in...?

Turn of the echo on the computer
by setting terminal emulation to VT100

[Brillian1080p]

Thank you.

That's one cookie!

[dishdudes]

So if we are running a pre zippered dvr, can we just change over to the Airlink USB adapters or do we need to pull the drive and re-zipper to get them working?


I posted Version 1.7 of the Zipper. Here are the changes:

1. Now invoking the network script differently to make sure it gets run only once when the tivo boots for the first time. Previously, it was run from the author file, and depended on the enhancement script to sed it out of there, which occasionally didn’t work for some users.

2. Now installing backported drivers from the Zipper script while the drive is still in the PC. This should open up the list of compatible adapters that work right out of the box to include the Linksys USB200M Version 2, Airlink ASOHOUSB, and Airlink AGIGAUSB. Special thanks to JamieP who did the real work of backporting the drivers, and generously giving permission to use them here. Also thanks to rpdre1 for pestering me to do this, and contributing some code.

Let’s consider this a beta until I have a chance to fully test some of the tweaks I made after initial testing yesterday.

[rpdre1]

I'm assuming you mean you ran the old zipper.sh but you havent run tweak.sh?


yes, you would have to download and burn the new zipper tools_disk.zip, pull the drive, and run the new zipper.sh.

[rbautch]

So if we are running a pre zippered dvr, can we just change over to the Airlink USB adapters or do we need to pull the drive and re-zipper to get them working?This script will modify your usb.map and you shouldn't have to pull your drive. Lightly tested.

[tall1]

This script will modify your usb.map and you shouldn't have to pull your drive. Lightly tested.Oh well, I am booting up my re-zippered drive with 1.7. Green light is on the $9.99 airlink adapter ;) bash prompt! Thanks Russ, Gunny and Jamie once again.

[Willy]

I posted Version 1.7 of the Zipper. Here are the changes:

1
2. Now installing backported drivers from the Zipper script while the drive is still in the PC. This should open up the list of compatible adapters that work right out of the box to include the Linksys USB200M Version 2, Airlink ASOHOUSB, and Airlink AGIGAUSB. Special thanks to JamieP who did the real work of backporting the drivers, and generously giving permission to use them here. Also thanks to rpdre1 for pestering me to do this, and contributing some code.

Let’s consider this a beta until I have a chance to fully test some of the tweaks I made after initial testing yesterday.


Thanks so much...now the only question is..will the new Zipper 1.7 allow use of these adapters (linksys, airlink, etc) to work for the HR10-250 or does that limitation still exist? Thanks again to all involved in getting this done, you rock.

[willardcpa]

If I send my Wife's chocolate chip cookies will you answer my questions on the previous page? Pretty please?"Thank you.

That's one cookie!"
Way to go, offer cookieS for some help, and then when you get it "That's one cookie." :p :D

[willardcpa]

.... Previously, it was run from the author file, and depended on the enhancement script to SED it out of there, which occasionally didn’t work for some users...."SED"??? :eek: No wonder I usually wait for about a month to install new verisons. :cool: :D
Sorry, Russ, couldn't resist. ;)
Keep up the good work, it's appreciated. :)

[rpdre1]

Thanks so much...now the only question is..will the new Zipper 1.7 allow use of these adapters (linksys, airlink, etc) to work for the HR10-250 or does that limitation still exist? Thanks again to all involved in getting this done, you rock.


yes, the new Zipper installs the backport drivers on HR10s too

[dishdudes]

This script will modify your usb.map and you shouldn't have to pull your drive. Lightly tested.

So just FTP this up and execute it?

[Brillian1080p]

So if you have USB working now, there's no need to use 1.7?

[rbautch]

So just FTP this up and execute it?Yes.

[rbautch]

So if you have USB working now, there's no need to use 1.7?Not unless you plan to swtich adapters.

[Brillian1080p]

I've been poking around using a serial cable until the FA120 arrives. I have read all of the readme files in the Zipper and enhancement script.

As I understand it a "Customized version of TWP" was installed and I should be able to start it by typing "twp" at the bash prompt.

I get "command not found"

So I poked around to see where it's located and I don't see it.

1. Where is it located?

2. Besides speed, am I limited by using the serial cable in what I can do?

3. Can I use FileZilla with the serial cable?

I'm not a network guru. The serial connection uses a port which is com 1 on my computer.

FileZilla wants an IP address.

I'm hoping this is appropriate to this forum/thread since the Zipper and enhancement script open the doors to use these programs.

As always, any info is appreciated.

[tall1]

I've been poking around using a serial cable until the FA120 arrives. I have read all of the readme files in the Zipper and enhancement script.

As I understand it a "Customized version of TWP" was installed and I should be able to start it by typing "twp" at the bash prompt.

I get "command not found"

So I poked around to see where it's located and I don't see it.

1. Where is it located?

2. Besides speed, am I limited by using the serial cable in what I can do?

3. Can I use FileZilla with the serial cable?

I'm not a network guru. The serial connection uses a port which is com 1 on my computer.

FileZilla wants an IP address.

I'm hoping this is appropriate to this forum/thread since the Zipper and enhancement script open the doors to use these programs.

As always, any info is appreciated.Patience Grasshopper. When your FA120 arrives and you get connected, type your Tivo IP address into a browser to access TWP.

[Brillian1080p]

Alrighty then.

So TWP is started from the address window which is why it won't start from hypertermnial.

I know, I know, using hyperterminal is like using a horse and buggy compared to ethernet.

Pretend I'm Amish for awhile.

I guess I'll try TWP, mfs-ftp and Tytools and see which one works best for me,

after the Golden super duper adapter arrives.

Thanks at least for answering my post.

[rmax]

Hey guys,

My wireless usb adapter just came in and I wanted to get in hooked up. Originally i chose NO to adding wireless when running the zipper.
After reading a bit, I figured I should run the tweak_uninstall.sh and then run the tweak.sh again.
Well, all went fine in the uninstall and when I ran the install it said something about an app that was not changed. What do I want to do..I chose remove..hindsite tells me maybe that was the wrong thing to do :rolleyes:
Now when I run the tweak.sh I get this error:

tweak.sh: line15:syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
`weak.sh: line15: elif [ "$tivoapp" = "e" ]: then

What can I do short of pulling the drive and re-zippering?
Thanks for the help,
Randy

[NardVa]

Can you use the zipper without a 6.2 Instsantcake image if you install the zipper on a factory tivo hard drive? I know with the Ptvnet cd you can use it to make the modifications on a factory tivo hard drive. I figure it should be possible with the zipper since they basically do the same thing.

[Gunnyman]

sure you can
it's not recommended for the obvious reasons.

[SteelersFan]

Hey guys,

My wireless usb adapter just came in and I wanted to get in hooked up. Originally i chose NO to adding wireless when running the zipper.
After reading a bit, I figured I should run the tweak_uninstall.sh and then run the tweak.sh again.
Well, all went fine in the uninstall and when I ran the install it said something about an app that was not changed. What do I want to do..I chose remove..hindsite tells me maybe that was the wrong thing to do :rolleyes:
Now when I run the tweak.sh I get this error:

tweak.sh: line15:syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
`weak.sh: line15: elif [ "$tivoapp" = "e" ]: then

What can I do short of pulling the drive and re-zippering?
Thanks for the help,
Randy
Try ftp'ing a fresh copy of tweak and run it.

[tivoupgrade]

For folks who already have networked TiVo units, please check out this thread (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=312804) and consider giving things a whirl. Its free and I'm interested in your feedback.

Thx,
Lou

[rbautch]

Hey guys,

My wireless usb adapter just came in and I wanted to get in hooked up. Originally i chose NO to adding wireless when running the zipper.
After reading a bit, I figured I should run the tweak_uninstall.sh and then run the tweak.sh again.
Well, all went fine in the uninstall and when I ran the install it said something about an app that was not changed. What do I want to do..I chose remove..hindsite tells me maybe that was the wrong thing to do :rolleyes:
Now when I run the tweak.sh I get this error:

tweak.sh: line15:syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
`weak.sh: line15: elif [ "$tivoapp" = "e" ]: then

What can I do short of pulling the drive and re-zippering?
Thanks for the help,
RandyTry running dos2unix on tweak.sh, like this: dos2unix tweak.sh

[tec007]

Does Zipper disable Tivo's firewall?

[Gunnyman]

yes

[rmax]

Try ftp'ing a fresh copy of tweak and run it.

Thanks for the feedback. I did try this last night and even downloaded the new tweak.sh and ftp'd it over. Got me stumped.

[rmax]

Try running dos2unix on tweak.sh, like this: dos2unix tweak.sh

rbautch,
Thanks for replying. I did read this on your help page and got an error when I tried to run it.
After I telnet'd in, I ran this from the bash prompt. I think I even tried to run it from the /hacks directory. I got an error both times. I can't remember what it was. Any other ideas? thanks...

[cheer]

rbautch,
Thanks for replying. I did read this on your help page and got an error when I tried to run it.
After I telnet'd in, I ran this from the bash prompt. I think I even tried to run it from the /hacks directory. I got an error both times. I can't remember what it was. Any other ideas? thanks...
Hard to know if we don't know what the error was...can you try it again and post the error message?

[rmax]

Hard to know if we don't know what the error was...can you try it again and post the error message?

I can. I will have to do it when I get back home this evening. The original error when trying to run tweak.sh was:

tweak.sh: line15:syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
`weak.sh: line15: ` elif [ "$tivoapp" = "e" ]: then

I will post the error this evening that it gives me when trying to run the dos2unix command on the tweak.sh file I ftp'd over.
Thanks,
Randy

[robr]

Greetings, I'm completely befuddled. I've used The Zipper several times in the past on an HDVR2 without issue. I now have two more HDVR2s, bought new drives, ran through the Zipper setup to image the drives, set up the network, put them back in the HDVR2s and booted. I'm using FA120s for right now until I get everything setup. However I've rebooted the HDVR2s and I can't ping them. The power and link light on the FA120 are on. My network here is 192.168.10.* (I have about 12 laptops, servers, printers, etc on it and all work fine). I set the HDVR2 to 192.168.10.98 and .99 for the two units with a gateway of .1.

The docs say "L. Boot up your Tivo. Before it finishes booting, your tivo will reboot automatically in order to set your network parameters. This is normal, and only happens when you boot for the first time after running the Zipper."

I did not notice this occur. Perhaps this is the problem? When does this reboot occur? I get to the "satellite info error" screen (I'm doing this at work so no dish is hooked up) and it sits there waiting for input.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Update: A search turned up post #7028 so I checked after I ran zipper.sh
in the /tivo directory, there is no file called reboot_flag. There are however files called zipper_flag and image_flag.

In /etc/rc.d there is no author file, only rc.S* and rc.inet1*

I did see the script say it was copying the author file, so I dunno what's going on.
Update: the script copies the file to /tivo/etc/rc.d - I assume somewhere down the line it's supposed to move it to /etc/rc.d but I'm still walking through the zipper.sh script.

Ok i get it, /tivo is just the name used for the root directory when the drive is mounted. The rc.sysinit.author file is there and contains the reference to:
tivosh /hacks/network.tcl $ipaddress $routerip

For the hell of it, I'll manually add the reboot_flag and see where that gets me.
It got me exactly nowhere :). It never rebooted.

[Brillian1080p]

For my HR10-250 the Airlink AGIGAUSB just arrived. I have a link light which is a great start.

Haven't been able to connect yet. My router sees the Tivo as 192.168.254.1. (I don't know why) and I tried that address and no go.

I zippered 1.6 and ran the enhacement OK with a serial cable.

During the Zipper I entered 192.168.1.101 as the Tivo address.

Did the enhancement script load the drivers for the Airlink?

Using the Tivo remote to check system status I get;

remote address not set (0)

Should this read the ip address entered during Zippering or not?

[tec007]

Which version of Hackman does Zipper install? The link doesn't seem to show in TWP+.

How would one go about updating it to the latest version? I tried to FTP but I can't over write the files.

[rbautch]

For my HR10-250 the Airlink AGIGAUSB just arrived. I have a link light which is a great start.

Haven't been able to connect yet. My router sees the Tivo as 192.168.254.1. (I don't know why) and I tried that address and no go.

I zippered 1.6 and ran the enhacement OK with a serial cable.

During the Zipper I entered 192.168.1.101 as the Tivo address.

Did the enhancement script load the drivers for the Airlink?

Using the Tivo remote to check system status I get;

remote address not set (0)

Should this read the ip address entered during Zippering or not?Versions before 1.7 load the backported drivers but do not modify the usb.map specifically for the Airlink adapter. Either run this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4298129&&#post4298129) script, modify /etc/hotplug/usp.map manually, or pull the drive and run version 1.7.

[Brillian1080p]

Thank you for the clarification. I couldn't tell by reading the instructions for 1.6 which drivers were loaded.

The serial port/bash prompt was hit and miss. I haven't been able to input any characters for two days.

I have the FA120 on order from ebay and have no idea when it will arrive.

So I can't run the script. I'll re-zipper.

[rbautch]

Which version of Hackman does Zipper install? The link doesn't seem to show in TWP+.

How would one go about updating it to the latest version? I tried to FTP but I can't over write the files.The Zipper no longer installs Hackman. Download the latest version from the Hackman thread. Mount your root filesystem read-write before trying to FTP it.

[rbautch]

For the hell of it, I'll manually add the reboot_flag and see where that gets me.
It got me exactly nowhere :). It never rebooted. The reboot_flag has to be encountered by the author file before the tivo will reboot. When your tivo boots for the first time, the author file sees the flag, deletes the flag, and then causes a reboot. Deleting the flag ensures this only happens once. You can run the author file like a script if you want to test it out. Otherwise you can try manually unplugging/replugging your power cord to force a reboot.

[tec007]

Mount your root filesystem read-write before trying to FTP it.

huh? :-) Got a link for how to this in Linux?

[ttodd1]

rw

[rbautch]

I can. I will have to do it when I get back home this evening. The original error when trying to run tweak.sh was:

tweak.sh: line15:syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
`weak.sh: line15: ` elif [ "$tivoapp" = "e" ]: then

I will post the error this evening that it gives me when trying to run the dos2unix command on the tweak.sh file I ftp'd over.
Thanks,
RandyIf you do a search for "syntax error near unexpected token", you'll see this is always a symptom of dos line endings. Fix em with dos2unix or FTP a new copy of tweak.sh in BINARY MODE. Here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3703426&&#post3703426) is a reference.

[Brillian1080p]

I successfully re-zippered with 1.7. I cannot connect using telnet. Same errors as I've read about.

"Could not open connection to the host, on port 23"

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. Is there something else I need to do, to enable telnet?

[sfmpilot]

I am missing something simple here, but I cant find what. I am up to step 5 for the zipper. I have booted the PTV CD. I get to the command prompt "PTVupgrade /#" I type in "mount /dev/hdc /cdrom" and the computer replys "mount: /dev/hdc: unknown device" I can not mount the drive when I put in the Tools CD. I have burned several Tools CDs, none will mount. I am positive that I am typing to mount the right location. I even changed the drive to hdd and hdb...but it would not work there either. Anyone have some ideas for me? Did I burn the CD wrong? Downloaded the Tools CD and the extra files. Everything matches the list for the files I need. I burned the disc with Nero Express 6 in Joliet mode.
Thanks in advance!

Has anyone replied to you? I have exactly the same problem and cannot see anywhere in this thread where you received a response

[Gunnyman]

is teh CDrom on the secondary Master IDE?
do you possibly have a Serial ATA controller in your computer that is mucking up device locations?

[Brillian1080p]

I've got six SATA hard drives in my main computer. For safety's sake I disconnected power to all of them. Also had to set the bios to boot to the ata cdrom and not the sata cdrom.

Telnet??? any help???

[tec007]

rw

That's not much help....

[Gunnyman]

I've got six SATA hard drives in my main computer. For safety's sake I disconnected power to all of them. Also had to set the bios to boot to the ata cdrom and not the sata cdrom.

Telnet??? any help???
if you can PING the tivo then you more than likely have a firewall issue. Turn Off any software Firewalls.

[robr]

The reboot_flag has to be encountered by the author file before the tivo will reboot. When your tivo boots for the first time, the author file sees the flag, deletes the flag, and then causes a reboot. Deleting the flag ensures this only happens once. You can run the author file like a script if you want to test it out. Otherwise you can try manually unplugging/replugging your power cord to force a reboot.

From reading the other post on here, it was my understanding that immediately after running zipper.sh, and before putting the drive back into the TiVo, that the reboot_flag file should exist. It did not exist after completion. Manually rebooting the TiVo did not help anything. I *think* the FA120 is working, I also think that for some reason the TiVo is coming up on a different IP address than the one I assigned to it which is why I can't ping it. I don't have the appropriate serial cable handy unfortunately so I guess I'll pull the drive tomorrow and look at the config files and/or use a network sniffer to see if anything is going over the NIC. Either that or I'll run to Radio Shack. I was just hoping what I'm encountering was a known entity, especially where I've used this exact set of CDs and exact NIC on another HDVR2 without a problem and then it goes and has problems on two HDVR2s.

I did just manage to find my old Pronto remote control data cable after 15 minutes of basement digging, but I'm not sure it will work since it's the upper of the two cables in this picture:
http://www.remotecentral.com/pronto/pinout.gif - based on the location of the conductors though it appears it may.

[Brillian1080p]

Windows Firewall is off.

Ping unsuccessful.

The adapter link light is on and my router reports this;

Host Name: UNKNOWN
Operating System: OS Unknown
Physical Address: 00:11:50:20:21:FD

Network Information



Domain Name: UNKNOWN
IP Address: 192.168.254.1
Attached By: Ethernet

So it see it and has assigned an address for it.

But no communication.

[Gunnyman]

I bet you transposed 192.168.1.254 by mistake and your tivo and router are no longer on the same subnet.

[Gunnyman]

That's not much help....
actually it is.
A zippered Tivo has aliases for many Linux commands
rw for example mounts the tivo filesystem in read/write mode
ro sets it back to read only.

[Brillian1080p]

Because I've had so much difficulty connecting, I triple checked what I typed in. I followed your suggestion in the instructions and put in 192.168.1.101.

I have been wondering if there is a way to verify the ip address assigned to the Tivo. It actually happens twice, once with the Zipper and once with the enhancement script.

I'm so close I can feel it!

I do have the serial connection available if you know how to check or change the tivo address.

[Gunnyman]

according to your router the tivo's IP address is 192.168.254.1
are you using DHCP? You can go to /tweak and run netconfig.tcl over serial and reset the IP then reboot the tivo

[Brillian1080p]

Gunny,

2 thoughts just connected in my head.

Are you saying that because my other addresses provided by the router are 192.168.254.xxx, that I should make the Tivo address the same but with a different last set?

If this is so, then I know what to do!!!

Tell me now and one dozen cookies it is!

[Brillian1080p]

I'm getting fair at poking around the directories, but I haven't found /tweak.

[robr]

Gunny,

2 thoughts just connected in my head.

Are you saying that because my other addresses provided by the router are 192.168.254.xxx, that I should make the Tivo address the same but with a different last set?

If this is so, then I know what to do!!!

Tell me now and one dozen cookies it is!

Your TiVo needs to be on the same network subnet as the other devices trying to connect to it. With a netmask of 255.255.255.0 (which is set up with no input from you) that would mean yes, all devices on your network including your TiVo have to have the same first three numbers, ie 192.168.1.* - you can't just make up something arbitrary.

[Brillian1080p]

My mistake then.

I am using DHCP. By setting the Tivo to 192.168.1.101 I believed all I had to do was type that in telnet or the address bar to connect.

I'm still looking for the /tweak directory if anyone cares to help me out.

Between posts I search this forum and google to find the answers so as not to be a burden.

My brain has grown two inches larger now, but I'm not sure I can use any of it yet.

[sfmpilot]

is teh CDrom on the secondary Master IDE?
do you possibly have a Serial ATA controller in your computer that is mucking up device locations?
Aha! Rings a bell that CD can't be secondary master. I'm set up with DTivo HD as hda and CD is hdc. I'll try HD on hdc and CD on hdb, although I think I've tried this before. Not sure if it means anything, but I can boot into Linux ok using PTVnet boot disc (using Linux kernal from PTVupgrade disc), and have executed Zipper completely. But then I saw in this thread that I needed to use the PTVupgrade LBA48 which is the one I can't seem to boot from. If I can use the PTVnet boot disc, to boot to linux, problem solved.

Another item, not sure if it helps, but when Linux is booting on PTVupgrade boot disc, just before it finishes booting, it goes through each drive hda.....hdi and comes up with a message similar to: drive hda not found, restart.... then it comes back in a minute or so later with - drive hda not found. Then it moves to the next drive. Takes about 5 minutes to step through all the drives. Sure looks like it can't find the drives on the PC.

But again, if a boot from PTVnet works, this is all a moot point as I can boot and mount the /cdrom fine from this boot disc.

[sfmpilot]

is teh CDrom on the secondary Master IDE?
do you possibly have a Serial ATA controller in your computer that is mucking up device locations?
I don't have SATA drives, but maybe they need to be unenabled in BIOS?

I have the CDrom on hdc and DTivo (120Gb) on hda. I was led to believe that location didn't matter, but I'll change to CDrom on hdb and Dtivo on hdc.

This is moot if the answer to the next question is affirmative - that is, since I have a 120Gb drive, do I need to use PTVupgrade LBA48, or can I use PTVnet? I can boot and run Zipper just fine from PTVnet (of course I use the Linux kernel from PTVupgrade on the tools disc).

[Xtra7973]

I'm getting fair at poking around the directories, but I haven't found /tweak.

To search for a file use bash# find -name "whatever your searching for" without the quotes. So if you were looking for a file called logs you would type in find -name logs, or if you're unsure of the file name use bash# find -name log\*
and it will list anything with "log" in it. Here is a good page I found on using the find command (http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/find.php)

[Gunnyman]

I'm getting fair at poking around the directories, but I haven't found /tweak.
my bad check /enhancements

[Brillian1080p]

Thank you, I'm not familiar with Linux so I read a few things about it and tried a few commands. Most of them don't work on the Tivo.

Believe it or not there really isn't very much information on the commands that will work.

Maybe your link will change that.

[Brillian1080p]

according to your router the tivo's IP address is 192.168.254.1
are you using DHCP? You can go to /tweak and run netconfig.tcl over serial and reset the IP then reboot the tivo

Are you sure it's not network.tcl?

I think I saw that in /enhancements.

[Gunnyman]

it's net-launch.sh in /enhancements
sorry for the confusion. It's been a tough day. The Tivoweb module is called net-config.

[Brillian1080p]

I might have seen that earlier but the enhancement disappeared when I ran tweak-uninstall, then tried to re-install sh tweak.sh.

It couldn't find it.

No worries though, I'm re-zippering and will enter 192.168.254.1.

Should be up and running in no time!

Thanks for responding.

[Brillian1080p]

Yahoo!

After re-zippering and the second reboot, before running the enhancement script I was able to get a colored bash at the command prompt from my windows pc!

I tried to open a directory but it kept repeating my input.

I read how to fix that in a thread an hour ago, don't remember it though and I'll have to search.

I'm on my way...

[rmax]

If you do a search for "syntax error near unexpected token", you'll see this is always a symptom of dos line endings. Fix em with dos2unix or FTP a new copy of tweak.sh in BINARY MODE. Here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3703426&&#post3703426) is a reference.

Thanks for the reference. I was not able to try again last night as I hoped. I will try again tonight. I do use Filezilla and will check to make sure it is in binary mode this time.
I will report back and let you know what happened.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Randy

[kewashi]

This script will modify your usb.map and you shouldn't have to pull your drive. Lightly tested.

You're the best!!! After loosing several bids for a fa-120 and seeing them sell for ridiculous prices in the $70 to $120 range, now I can just go buy a linksys v2 at best buy and be done with it for my 2nd hacked tivo. A question -- which route would you suggest? switching my current tivo to the usb v2 using the map hack here or starting the new system with the new 1.7 zipper?

[Brillian1080p]

Anyone notice about 20 minutes from unplugging the Tivo, zippering and back up and running last night?

That's a tribute to how well this program is put together!

Course, I did follow the directions...

[robr]

You guys gave me an idea reading all this, I checked my router logs and sure enough, there's the TiVo sending DHCP requests. It did not use the IP address I assigned to it. I'm now connected at least (I couldn't get minicom to connect via my Pronto serial cable so this is very good).

ok, once i connected to the DHCP assigned address and ran tweak.sh and rebooted, *THEN* the tivo came up with the IP address I had entered during the zipper.sh process.

[Brillian1080p]

My Pronto cable works with no mods.

[robr]

My Pronto cable works with no mods.

Do you have a 3 conductor or 4 conductor Pronto cable?

[Brillian1080p]

Looking at the pin it has 3 sections.

There is a post that has a diagram showing what wires should be where. I deleted the bookmark, so you'll have to search.

[robr]

Looking at the pin it has 3 sections.

There is a post that has a diagram showing what wires should be where. I deleted the bookmark, so you'll have to search.

That would be the correct Pronto cable to use :). Mine has 4 sections (2 ground sections instead of 1). It could also have something to do with I ordered my Pronto from the UK because the silver one wasn't available in the US at the time I ordered it. Perhaps they include a different cable.

In any event, I'm up and running with the new network adapter and all is now fine with the first TiVo. Off to complete the second one. I have no idea why it's using DHCP at first but at least now I know to look for that.

[robr]

I take it back.. everything was working, now the ASOHOUSB adapter will no longer work. I had to do a TiVO reset and after doing that, it was back getting an IP address via DHCP (and the ASOHOUSB no longer worked). I plugged an FA120 back in, ran tweak_uninstall then tweak and then the usbmap.sh script to add support for this NIC (just in case it wasn't already supported). Then I rebooted.

I have both lights on the ASOHOUSB on, but I can't ping it. As soon as I hot-swap the FA120, I can now ping.

BTW shouldn't network settings show up on the HDVR2 interface? I know it does on my HDVR2 at home (I think it's Phone & Network settings). I only see 'Phone settings' on the DirecTV Central settings menu.

[Brillian1080p]

I asked here about network settings showing up and no one answered... yet.

[Brillian1080p]

Wrong thread.

[robr]

whats supposed to be in the tmf directory?

i started from scratch. i now have one tivo up and running with the ASOHOUSB again and am working on the second one now..... 10th time is a charm!

[tall1]

/tmf is off topic for this thread. You can read more about that stuff at the Zipper Wiki. (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)

[sfmpilot]

I had a devil of a time trying to boot up from the PTVupgrade LBA48 disc that I burned. On boot up, I would get the following toward the end:

hda no response (status 0xfe), resetting device (pauses for a minute or so)
hda no response (status 0xfe) (pauses for a minute or so)

and then proceeds to step through hdc, hde, hdg in like manner.

Thanks to Gunny's suggestion - the resolution was to go into BIOS and disable the SATA interfaces. I don't have SATA drives installed, but the Motherboard was sure going to be ready when I put them in :) After disabling SATA, everything worked as advertised, at least with the making the DTivo HD.

[sfmpilot]

I have successfully zippered and tweaked a new 120 Gb HD for a rebuilt disc-less DSR704. I was up and fully operational quite quickly, but had some interesting results.

First, the boot process actually re-booted twice before it proceeded all the way through downloading from the satellite, but all did seem to come up ok.

The only thing that is upsetting is that the unit reboots every 25 or so minutes, like clockwork. Second, sometimes when it reboots it gets all the way through the reboot process the first time, but most times it gets to the middle of the boot, "'Almost There", and it reboots again, but the second time it generally comes online, but then other times it hangs in Welcome. No GSOD ever occuring in the boot. I use the Linksys USB 100M and did not upgrade to USB2.0 when asked in the Enhancements scripts.

I know there are other posts talking about sporadic reboots, but again this is happening like clockwork. Since it's at 25 minute intervals, and since the programing download is forecast to take 30 minutes to download, is there a possibility that something's happening when the satellite download completes? or, is there a timing loop in a script here that may be set wrong?

Thanks for any ideas.

[sjmaye]

Quote:Originally Posted by sjmaye

Since I don't have a mount for the additional drive yet it will require pulling the lid back off the unit later anyway, so I think I will go ahead with the single drive install to make sure all is working well, then do the "mfsadd" when I have the mount in-hand.


Was that a mistake? I have the HD D*Tivo running well for over a week now and no problems with the 250GB single Zippered drive. I am ready to add the second drive (400GB). I read a couple posts that said the swap file was adjusted during the Zipper application based upon the drives connected. At that point I only had the single 250 GB drive.

When reading there are concerns of swap file size and GSOD and no way to change the swap file size.

Am I going to have to start all over? :(

[Gunnyman]

no
the -r4 command in the zipper image install takes care of things.

[sjmaye]

no
the -r4 command in the zipper image install takes care of things.

Thank you for the quick reply, Gunnyman.

So just do the mfsadd just like it is listed in the Weaknees instructions and all is good?? :D

[Gunnyman]

yep

[sjmaye]

Thanks! :up:

[robr]

I asked here about network settings showing up and no one answered... yet.

I checked last night on my HDVR2 at home and this setting does not exist there either. It must have been on the standalone 4.x version I was running on that box, I never noticed it's no longer there in 6.x.

[cheer]

Correct, network settings only show up in the Tivo's onscreen interface on standalone software versions.

[rbautch]

Here are two good references discussing swap file size. Ref1 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3529678&&#post3529678) Ref2 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3612772&&#post3612772)

[SteelersFan]

Here are two good references discussing swap file size. Ref1 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3529678&&#post3529678) Ref2 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3612772&&#post3612772)
Try this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3825639&highlight=swap#post3825639) as well. And this. (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=311689)

[rmax]

Thanks for the reference. I was not able to try again last night as I hoped. I will try again tonight. I do use Filezilla and will check to make sure it is in binary mode this time.
I will report back and let you know what happened.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Randy

I was able to transfer the file in binary mode and successfully run tweak.sh.
Now I am back to original reason I started messing with the tweak file in the first place. I am trying to install the wireless files and replace the wired adapter. I run the net-launch.sh and it ask for what type Ip and then just skips the part where it ask if I want to install for wireless adapter...how do a I get it to ask for wireless or am I doing something wrong?

[sjmaye]

Thank you for the quick reply, Gunnyman.

So just do the mfsadd just like it is listed in the Weaknees instructions and all is good?? :D

Help- TIVO is down! My wife is gonna kill me. :eek:

First try-

hda - cd drive
hdc- 250GB Zippered drive (jumper on Master)
hdd- 400GB New drive (Jumper on Slave)

mfsadd -r 4 -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdd

Took a bit, but it showed about 761 hours. Sounded about right.

Installed in to HR10-250. Boot cycle all worked like usual. Checked Sytem info. Recording capacity did not change 30hrs HD, 200hrs SD.

I read a post where two other people had the exact same problem. They said the drives had to be on different IDE channels and did not need the "-r 4" option.

Second try-
hda - 250GB Zippered drive (jumper on Master)
hdc- cd drive
hdd- 400GB New drive (Jumper on Slave)

ran:

mfsadd -x /dev/hda /dev/hdd

Response was pretty quick- "added 480 hours" for a total of 761hrs.

Looked good.

Put drives in the HD D*Tivo and booted. Got past the Tivo unleashed splash, rebooted waited a while, then GSOD. After a few seconds on GSOD it rebotted again. This process kept repeating.

Third try-
I thought I might have needed the "-r 4" after all and went to try it. Took the drives back out and put them in the PC. The response was "nothing to add".

Now I am stuck. I could probably start from scratch, reapply the drive image, and rezipper with both drives from the start, but I hate to add back all my season passes etc.

The drives are still connected to my PC.

Is there any chance I can fix this thing without starting all over? :(

[Gunnyman]

you might be able to just increase the swap file size
search the forums for tpip.

[os2doc]

Hello All,

Trying to make Zipper work, and having some difficulties. Here is what I have.

powerbook,
zipper disk archive
all the required files
ptvupgrade universal boot disk
ptvupgrade instacake disk for Phillips DSR704
80gig Seagate (mostly doing the upgrade to get the data off the disk.) on hdc master ide2
CD rom on hda master ide1
old server to work from


I created the Zipper disk with files:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 284955184 Mar 22 2005 000001
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 40679 Jan 30 2006 Installation_Instructions.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 7768 Dec 25 2003 bootpage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 4015 Aug 12 17:21 network.tcl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 2727581 Aug 21 08:32 rbautch_files.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 312 Apr 20 17:17 rc_sysinit.author
-rw-r--r-- 1 michaelr michaelr 2310 May 8 2005 set_mrv_name_67.tcl
-rw-r--r-- 1 michaelr michaelr 23115 May 7 12:24 superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.2.tcl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 6103040 Aug 4 2005 tivotools.tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 4228 Jan 3 2006 tweak.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 2682 Jan 16 2006 tweak_uninstall.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 1106313 May 2 09:17 vmlinux.px.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michaelr michaelr 12246 Aug 26 16:00 zipper.sh

Edited___
oh, vmlinux.px.gz is 3.1.1c kernel off the universal install CD, is this right?
_____

booted the old pc with the universal boot disk, mounted tools CD,
sh zipper.sh
installed the instacake image,
rebooted,
sh zipper.sh
errors. Man, a bunch.
biggest problem seems to be that I can't run bootpage from the /cdrom/ directory, gives me an auth error.

When I ll -a the /cdrom directory, the scripts there are not executable, they have __w__w__S permissions set... Thats wierd... So Zipper is failing.

I put the disk back in the powerbook, and it looks fine. I tried burning it as ISO9660, and Joliet, same problem. I don't get it.

So, I booted off the Instacake CD, ctl - c the initial script, get a command prompt. CD still looks funky. How could this be the hardware? I dont really understand how.

Any idea what I am doing wrong here?
m

[ttodd1]

Any idea what I am doing wrong here?
m


using a mac... :D

[rbautch]

I was able to transfer the file in binary mode and successfully run tweak.sh.
Now I am back to original reason I started messing with the tweak file in the first place. I am trying to install the wireless files and replace the wired adapter. I run the net-launch.sh and it ask for what type Ip and then just skips the part where it ask if I want to install for wireless adapter...how do a I get it to ask for wireless or am I doing something wrong?Only the Zipper asks you if you want to install a wireless adapter while the drive is still in the tivo. The net-launch script does not. Try running /enhancements/setSSIDwep.tcl.

[rbautch]

Is there any chance I can fix this thing without starting all over? :( You might try removing the loopback routes from the author file, and connect a phone line while you boot. That way your tivo can download any files it needs if GSOD discovers a problem. If GSOD is not finishing properly, a larger swap file may also help. You may also have a problem with one of your drives. I've used the exact same procedure on my HR10-250 many times, and it's worked fine. If you really want to save season passes, you can connect both drives to your PC and do an mfsbackup/mfsrestore to a single drive, and then try again.

[os2doc]

using a mac... :D

Well, theres a long argument in the making, but maybe correct. I am wondering if it is how the disk was burned. I simply copies the files over to a disk, and it seems that may be the problem. I am going to try some modifications to how the iso is created... I am not sure what the problem is, but its worth a shot.

If anyone else has anything useful, would appreciate it. I can't be the first person to do this on a mac.

oh, btw, windows sucks. :p

M

[TivoCurious]

I know the issue of what adapter works has been beat to death on this thread, but perhaps you could clear something up for me...
I just did the drive portion of the zipper, hooked it all up, watched it reboot after the first boot (to set the networking as I understand) but my tivo isn't on the network. I don't even see link lights on my router or the adapter. I am using an SMC2208USB because the FA120's are crazy expensive and I was under the impression that any wired usb listed as working on the Tivo sight would work on my DSR708 with version 6.2 -- Was I mistaken? (I'm only shooting for usb1.1 -- I can live with the slower speed)

Thanks to Gunnyman & rbautch for the scripts and especially all the support you guys and the other regulars provide. You guys rock!


--please see my other posting instead if you can offer any assistance-- Thanks.

[ttodd1]

Well, theres a long argument in the making, but maybe correct. I am wondering if it is how the disk was burned. I simply copies the files over to a disk, and it seems that may be the problem. I am going to try some modifications to how the iso is created... I am not sure what the problem is, but its worth a shot.

If anyone else has anything useful, would appreciate it. I can't be the first person to do this on a mac.

oh, btw, windows sucks. :p

M

Not going to go there... :p There are a few posts inthis thread of others that had buring issues # 1343, 1669 for example. Search this thread and that may help.

I agree windoze sucks I myself am trying to move to FC5 but there are those little things that keep me haveing to have a win pc..... :rolleyes:

[jhanson]

ok... another confused noob here... i really did spend a lot of time searching the forums, but i can't figure out this kernel thing.

i have a HDVR2 with 6.2 software with a upgraded 300G drive. i want to keep the original drive so i can skip the instantcake. i did download the free PTVUpgrade tools CD.

i'm trying to install zipper, but confused about this hacked kernel thing.

1. what kernel do i need? i understand i need to run killinitrd on the kernel, but confused on which one to get and where to get it.

2. can someone point me (or PM me) to where i can get the appropriate original kernel for free? since i'm keeping my existing image, i don't want to pay for the PTVBoot CD just for the kernel.

thanks!

[Gunnyman]

the boot cd is 5 bucks.
OR you can find a tutorial on DDB for running killhdinitrd on your existing kernel free.

[jhanson]

egads...i'm reading too much info and have brain overload. i thought i needed the instant cake boot CD ($20) to get the kernel. i didn't see just the boot CD for $5. thanks for the clarification.

another question about wireless adapters. i see Tivo.com's list of compatable adpaters and they all say i need version 7.2 or later of the software. i assume with zipper i can use my 6.2 version with the ones they say will work with 7.2?

[jhanson]

also, my service number starts with 151 which isn't even listed. How do i find what wireless adapters work with 151s?

[rbautch]

egads...i'm reading too much info and have brain overload. i thought i needed the instant cake boot CD ($20) to get the kernel. i didn't see just the boot CD for $5. thanks for the clarification.

another question about wireless adapters. i see Tivo.com's list of compatable adpaters and they all say i need version 7.2 or later of the software. i assume with zipper i can use my 6.2 version with the ones they say will work with 7.2?
The Instantcake CD is different than boot CD. The Instantcake CD contains a software image. The boot CD contains the kernel. Follow the directions and the links in the Zipper instructions. If you're not sure what you're doing, spend the $25 and get both products, and don't deviate from the instructions. Adapters that only work with 7.2 will NOT work with 6.2. Ignore the service number.

[DrOrb]

All praise to Gunnyman, Rbautch and all the others masters!

My 2x300GB HR10-250 Zipper went as smoothly as guano through a goose!

DrOrb

[os2doc]

Ok, so apparently the finder's burning tools don't create correct Joliet images. Take all but the last '.' out of file names, truncade them to 30 charachters, and just generallly screw with them. So. I thought about booting over to kubuntu, and then creating the disk, but as I have never done that, I went the "easier" route, and changed. the zipper script, and the files.

Yeah, I know....

renamed the following:

rc.sysinit.author -> rc_sysinit.author
superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.2.tcl -> superpatch
vmlinux.px.gz -> vmlinux_px.gz

then modified the zipper script to deal with these files correctly

So, Toto and I went back to the linux box, mounted the disk, and reran sh zipper_mod.sh...

And had success. the new hacked disk is in the Tivo now, and watching "The truth about cats and dogs".

No network access yet. The network dongle hasn't arrived yet, ordered the netgear, will provably fight with that on Tuesday.

Now I need to hack the old drive to get the crap my wife has recorded off of it.

happy happy joy joy!

M

[Gunnyman]

also, my service number starts with 151 which isn't even listed. How do i find what wireless adapters work with 151s?
If it's wireless G and says 7.xx required it WILL NOT work on a Zippered DTivo.
Wireless ones are going to be VERY hard to find since the B flavor isn't even made anymore. I am wireless by using the Netgear FA120 and going into a wireless bridge.

[sjmaye]

All praise to Gunnyman, Rbautch and all the others masters!

My 2x300GB HR10-250 Zipper went as smoothly as guano through a goose!

DrOrb

Great! I am in the middle of a Zipper upgrade with a 250GB + 400GB. The Zipper on Tivo drive A worked fine, but I am having trouble with the marrying of the drives. I am getting the GSOD.

Can you tell me exactly what commands you used for marrying the drives and if you did anything else with swap file size or tpip?

[TivoCurious]

I didn't get a reply to my earlier question yet so let me pose these questions instead:
Do I need to alter the etc/hotplug/usb.map to get the SMC2208 working? I was under the impression that since it was on the list at the tivo site it would work, but it's not working for me. I realize I could look at this stuff myself, but I don't have a serial cable and I would like to figure it out before pulling the drive again so I don't anger my wife and kids by having the tivo down while I learn.
Also, I see that ASOHOUSB is included in the zipper script and uses the backported drivers. It looks like that model is still obtainable. What sort of benefit could I expect to see (besides the obvious network working instead of not working) from using the ASOHOUSB and backported drivers?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

[jhanson]

I know you said don't worry that my service # starts with 151, but which column on the following table should I look to find a compatible adapter? Most of the service numbers starting with 1XX are LESS compatible:

http://customersupport.tivo.com/knowbase/root/public/tv2184.htm

1. So it appears that NO g adapters will work with 6.2. Correct?

2. Is there somewhere else I can see a list of compatible adapters for 6.2?

Thanks.

[David Platt]

Okay, I'm about to undertake zippering a HR10-250, but had a quick question about the 30-second skip and backdoors.

It's my understanding from reading this thread that both are enabled via manual tivoapp patches, since superpatch doesn't work on HR10-250's. What do I need to do if I DON'T want 30-second skip enabled?

I tried searching for where it's patched in both zipper.sh and tweaks.sh, but I must be missing it.

[rbautch]

Okay, I'm about to undertake zippering a HR10-250, but had a quick question about the 30-second skip and backdoors.

It's my understanding from reading this thread that both are enabled via manual tivoapp patches, since superpatch doesn't work on HR10-250's. What do I need to do if I DON'T want 30-second skip enabled?

I tried searching for where it's patched in both zipper.sh and tweaks.sh, but I must be missing it.tweak.sh is only a wrapper script that launches the main hacking script called start.sh, which is buried in rbautch_files.tgz. Aside from cracking open that achive the easiest way to do it is this:
1. Run tweak.sh as usual, but as soon as you see the output "Your software version was compiled on Linux kernel 2.4.20", hit cntrl-c and exit the script.
2. Edit /enhancements/start.sh to remove the 30-sec skip tivoapp patch.
3. Run start.sh (not tweak.sh).

[Gunnyman]

I know you said don't worry that my service # starts with 151, but which column on the following table should I look to find a compatible adapter? Most of the service numbers starting with 1XX are LESS compatible:

http://customersupport.tivo.com/knowbase/root/public/tv2184.htm

1. So it appears that NO g adapters will work with 6.2. Correct?

2. Is there somewhere else I can see a list of compatible adapters for 6.2?

Thanks.
look here http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks

[Brillian1080p]

During the tweak.sh it asks if you want it or not.

Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I remember from doing it twice.

[thedeak08]

OK, I don't wanna do alot to my HDVR2, just upgrading the drive to a 160 GB, and the only hack I care about is the fake call, cause I hate seeing that message day after day. Where can I find this hack?

[rbautch]

OK, I don't wanna do alot to my HDVR2, just upgrading the drive to a 160 GB, and the only hack I care about is the fake call, cause I hate seeing that message day after day. Where can I find this hack?You can't just install fakecall, but rather you have to fully hack your tivo in order to bypass the "security" features of tivo that prevent you from running anything other than stock software. The Zipper will do exactly that, and install fakecall.

[undertow]

I just picked up a used Philips DSR704 and I'm planning on zippering it. Problem is, it's already been hacked and I think it was a sleeper job. It's currently at v3.1.1c software and won't update. It came with the original unhacked hard drive. If I put the original drive in, will it clean things up and allow it to update to 6.2?

[randyz71]

I have fairly successfully hacked three DTivo's using mfstools, instantcake/ptvnet, and the zipper. My question of course is about the zipper install. I am having trouble getting the Linksys adapter to operate. I used a pre 1.7 zipper to load the unit. After putting the drive back in the unit, I used one of my D-Link DUB100's (pre version B) to connect the unit and run tweak.sh etc... therefore I know the drop, usb port etc... is good. I answered yes to install the USB 2.0 drivers, but the Linksys never connects to the switch. I do get link lights on the adapter, but the switch has nothing.

After some digging on the forum, I came across a post with a similiar issue and someone (rbautch?) provided a usbmap.sh script. When I try to ftp the file to the DTivo I get a read only system error. I telnet in and issue the rootwrite command, but it responds with command not found. I have tried running the command from various directories with the same results. I don't have this problem on the other two units that I have "hacked". Maybe rootwrite was installed by a hack I have yet to apply to this TiVo? Maybe what I really need is the proper mount command?

Any suggestions on either issue would be greatly appreciated.

[rbautch]

I just picked up a used Philips DSR704 and I'm planning on zippering it. Problem is, it's already been hacked and I think it was a sleeper job. It's currently at v3.1.1c software and won't update. It came with the original unhacked hard drive. If I put the original drive in, will it clean things up and allow it to update to 6.2?Yes it should. You probably want to start with a clean image anyway. Can't install a Zipper over a Sleeper. :eek:

[rbautch]

When I try to ftp the file to the DTivo I get a read only system error. I telnet in and issue the rootwrite command, but it responds with command not found. I have tried running the command from various directories with the same results. I don't have this problem on the other two units that I have "hacked". Maybe rootwrite was installed by a hack I have yet to apply to this TiVo? Maybe what I really need is the proper mount command?

Any suggestions on either issue would be greatly appreciated.Use "rw" not rootwrite.

[undertow]

Yes it should. You probably want to start with a clean image anyway. Can't install a Zipper over a Sleeper. :eek:
Thanks a lot for your advice! And, thanks a lot rbautch and Gunnyman for a really nice looking package. :)

[Jonathan_S]

Just got the PTVupdate CD and Zipper CD set up and burned.
Then I discovered a minor annoyance. The PTVupdate boot CD doesn't appear to have SCSI support, and I don't have an IDE CD-ROM around.

(The system I'm was going to use to run the update just has a SCSI CD-RW.
I've got a couple other computers accessible, but one of them has a CD-ROM, CD-R, & DVD-ROM all SCSI, and the other is a Power Mac.
I think the only working IDE CD-Rom I have is the one built into the HP rackmount machine that acts as my NAT router)

Guess I'm going to have to run out any buy a cheap IDE DVD or CD-ROM tomorrow...
Oh well. Probably a useful thing to have around.

[David Platt]

tweak.sh is only a wrapper script that launches the main hacking script called start.sh, which is buried in rbautch_files.tgz. Aside from cracking open that achive the easiest way to do it is this:
1. Run tweak.sh as usual, but as soon as you see the output "Your software version was compiled on Linux kernel 2.4.20", hit cntrl-c and exit the script.
2. Edit /enhancements/start.sh to remove the 30-sec skip tivoapp patch.
3. Run start.sh (not tweak.sh).

Just wanted to let you know that this worked without a hitch.

Thanks!

[cheer]

Just got the PTVupdate CD and Zipper CD set up and burned.
Then I discovered a minor annoyance. The PTVupdate boot CD doesn't appear to have SCSI support, and I don't have an IDE CD-ROM around.
Does your system support booting from the SCSI CD-RW drive? If so I would think you could track down the appropriate drivers for the drive and insmod them, but maybe not -- never tried to boot from a SCSI CD drive before.

[Jonathan_S]

Does your system support booting from the SCSI CD-RW drive? If so I would think you could track down the appropriate drivers for the drive and insmod them, but maybe not -- never tried to boot from a SCSI CD drive before.Oh, sure it booted fine. It was just when I got to the "mount /dev/sda/ /cdrom" step in the zipper instructions that I realized that I didn't have SCSI drivers.

Its been so long since I had to load linux drivers after boot I'd forgotten about insmod. Its a basic adaptec 29160 card, so the driver should be easy to find. I guess I'll try that before I run out and buy a drive.

Thanks. (And here I thought I was just venting a bit :D)

[ForrestB]

Well you could temporarily move the CDROM from your PowerMac and install it in your PC. FYI PowerMac G3, G4 and G5 computers all use standard IDE CDROM/CDRW/DVD drives.

[rmax]

Only the Zipper asks you if you want to install a wireless adapter while the drive is still in the tivo. The net-launch script does not. Try running /enhancements/setSSIDwep.tcl.

Thank you sir. That did the trick. Appreciate all the help.

[BrettC]

Maybe this has been answered before (and I apologize if it has been) but I could not find it anywhere using a search. Has anyone used the BELKIN F5D5055 USB adapter with the Direct Tivo series 2? Just checking because I could not find an Airlink AGIGAUSB (even on EBay). I'll use 100mb if I have to, but would much rather use a Gb adapter.

Thanks!

[qdoggg]

Maybe this has been answered before (and I apologize if it has been) but I could not find it anywhere using a search. Has anyone used the BELKIN F5D5055 USB adapter with the Direct Tivo series 2? Just checking because I could not find an Airlink AGIGAUSB (even on EBay). I'll use 100mb if I have to, but would much rather use a Gb adapter.

Thanks!

For all those in the SF Bay Area the Airlink ASOHOUSB 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet USB 2.0 Adapter (http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=3422026&subid=12975471&type=) is only $1.99 @ Fry's B&M!!!

[rbautch]

Maybe this has been answered before (and I apologize if it has been) but I could not find it anywhere using a search. Has anyone used the BELKIN F5D5055 USB adapter with the Direct Tivo series 2? Just checking because I could not find an Airlink AGIGAUSB (even on EBay). I'll use 100mb if I have to, but would much rather use a Gb adapter.

Thanks!It should work, but it's only a USB 1.0 device. Looks like there's still several FA120s on Ebay.

[JamieP]

It should work, but it's only a USB 1.0 device. Looks like there's still several FA120s on Ebay.I believe you are thinking of the F5D5050. The F5D5055 (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=281799) is a usb2 gigabit device not currently supported by the backport drivers (AFAIK). I don't know what chip it uses. If someone has the .inf file from the windows drivers, it might provide some clues. I don't see any driver downloads on their web site.

To the OP: keep in mind that there is no performance advantage to gige on the tivo without jumbo frames.

[Draven X. Byrne]

Just wanted to vet my logic here really quick -

3rd time using Zipper - no issues there. I took my HR10-250 and put a brand new 500 GB drive in. I follwowed the instructions and ran up to the part where I run 51killer.sh but nothing else. My logic being that I can now use the TiVo normally until it updates to 6.3 and THEN zipper the thing.

Feel free to tell me I'm a moron if I'm wrong :D

DXB

[Draven X. Byrne]

Also - I searched on this issue and couldn't find an answer.

In TiVOWeb when I try to backup the season passes etc it tosses a "can't write" error. I assume I need to pop in the box and set the drive to read/write via "rw".

Am I wrong in assumming that TiVoWeb would issue a command to be able to do that itself?

Thanks

DXB

[rbautch]

Your bootpage now has a parameter called 'upgradesoftware=false' that will prevent the new software from being installed. This is a good thing, because software updates wipe out all your hacks. I outlined the options for upgrading to 6.3 a few pages back.

[Draven X. Byrne]

So even though I didn't run the zipper just the fact that I have the IP on there means I can't get the update naturally then?

If so, Thanks. Appreciate the heads up!

DXB

[Draven X. Byrne]

Also - I searched on this issue and couldn't find an answer.

In TiVOWeb when I try to backup the season passes etc it tosses a "can't write" error. I assume I need to pop in the box and set the drive to read/write via "rw".

Am I wrong in assumming that TiVoWeb would issue a command to be able to do that itself?

Thanks

DXB

Apparently I figured it out on my own. You have to do the rw before trying to do a backup. Is there an logical reason to keep the TiVo HD on read only "ro" - or is that really for safety?

If not, what would be the best way to keep the drive read / write?

[Lord Vader]

Keeping it on "-ro" helps prevent a particular folder/file from getting wiped.

[Lord Vader]

I hear 6.3 will not be coming, as the HR10-250's are being replaced by the HR20-750's.

[tnedator]

Ok, I have installed zipper and tweak.sh, but I wasn't sure how to answer the question about installing USB 2.0 drivers.

I have an HR10-250 and an FA120. I was under the impression that the 10-250 was already USB 2.0, so wasn't sure that to do, and since I didn't have a serial cable, I didn't want to do something that killed my access.

So, should I have installed the 2.0 drivers? And, if the answer was yes, how do I install the USB drivers now? Do I have to run the uninstall (uinstall_tweak), and then rerun the tweak.sh script or is there another way?

Also, when I installed the zipper, I told it that I had recordings that I wanted to preserve, but after finishing the zipper and the tweak.sh script, all the recordings were gone. They still showed up in the now playing list, but when you hit play, it went straight to "delete or don't delete". Any idea why this happened? I have a second 10-250 that I plan on zippering and would like to keep the recordings if possible.

Thanks

[ethav]

I just completed installing Zipper 1.6 on my recently purchased (through eBay) Hughes SD-DVR40. I seem to have things mostly set up correctly as I've got Called ID working, connected to TiVoWeb Plus, and wireless working.

I have set my MRV name successfully and I would like to know if its possible to use MRV with standalone TiVos on the same LAN. Only my den has a DirecTivo (hence an MRV name of "DEN") and I have SA TiVo's in two other rooms that are successfully able to transfer programs between them.

I would like to be able to transfer programs from either of these SA TiVo's to/from the DirecTiVo that has been Zippered. The "DEN DVR" does show up in the Now Playing list on these other TiVos, but the SA TiVo tells me that the DEN DVR is not enabled for transfers. It wants me to go to the TiVo website (/manage) and set it up.

Is it possible to use MRV between hacked DirecTiVos and Standalone TiVos ? If so, what am I missing? Thank you.

[rbautch]

Also, when I installed the zipper, I told it that I had recordings that I wanted to preserve, but after finishing the zipper and the tweak.sh script, all the recordings were gone. They still showed up in the now playing list, but when you hit play, it went straight to "delete or don't delete". Any idea why this happened? I have a second 10-250 that I plan on zippering and would like to keep the recordings if possible.

ThanksDid you install the drive in a different tivo than the one they were recorded on?

[tnedator]

Did you install the drive in a different tivo than the one they were recorded on?

No, I did an mfsrestore from my original drive to a new 750gb last weekend (without preserving shows) and zippered it. I didn't get my USB adapters until yesterday, but I couldn't connect, even after rebooting the Tivo. So, I took the 750gb drive out and rezippered it and changed the IP address. I then connected via telnet and ran the tweak.sh program. I messed that up once, so I ran the uninstall, then ran tweak.sh again. Rebooted, and then my programs were in the guide, but not on the drive, like when you do the MFSrestore without copying programs across.

The shows that I am referring to are the ones that I recorded between the time I switched to the new 750gb drive over the weekend, until last night.

Also, what about the USB 2.0 drivers for the 10-250? Do I need them for increased performance, or are they already there on the 10-250 by default. I chose no during the tweak.sh script and want to know if I need to add those drivers?

Also, I have a super G router/bridge combo and am getting 400 kbs (or Kbs, the one that indicates a 4 med download stream, which is what my cable is) download speeds when I connected my laptop to it. However, with Tyshow, I only managed a little over 1 meg a second. I was wondering if that was the drivers, or simply how fast the Tivo will stream the file out.

Thanks

[Jonathan_S]

Oh, sure it booted fine. It was just when I got to the "mount /dev/sda/ /cdrom" step in the zipper instructions that I realized that I didn't have SCSI drivers.

Its been so long since I had to load linux drivers after boot I'd forgotten about insmod. Its a basic adaptec 29160 card, so the driver should be easy to find.Ok. Easy to find might have been a bit of an overstatement. I finally thought to actually look on the PTVUpdate disk, and the driver I needed was on there, it just wasn't automatically being called.

In my case "modprobe aic7xxx_old" worked and loaded the 29160 driver.
Then I was able to swap CDs and do the "mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom" and run zipper.
(Had to dmesg to see what the CD-ROM drive had been detected as; but other than that no problem)

Now I'm just waiting for the ethernet adaptors to show up before I drop the zippered drives into my DTiVos.

[Gunnyman]

Welcome to the fold Jonathan. :)

[rbautch]

Ok, I have installed zipper and tweak.sh, but I wasn't sure how to answer the question about installing USB 2.0 drivers.

I have an HR10-250 and an FA120. I was under the impression that the 10-250 was already USB 2.0, so wasn't sure that to do, and since I didn't have a serial cable, I didn't want to do something that killed my access.

So, should I have installed the 2.0 drivers? And, if the answer was yes, how do I install the USB drivers now? Do I have to run the uninstall (uinstall_tweak), and then rerun the tweak.sh script or is there another way?No, the drivers on the tivo are not USB 2.0. Uninstalling/re-installing tweak.sh is the easiest way to do it, otherwise you can download the drivers from DDB, FTP them to your tivo, and create the required symlinks.

[tnedator]

No, the drivers on the tivo are not USB 2.0. Uninstalling/re-installing tweak.sh is the easiest way to do it, otherwise you can download the drivers from DDB, FTP them to your tivo, and create the required symlinks.

Ok, thanks. I have a couple more questions:

First, just to be sure. I have the FA120 USB/Ethernet adapter. Once I uninstall/reinstall the Tweak.sh, these should work fine. I shouldn't have to connect by serial cable, or anything like that?

Second, do I need to reboot in between running the uninstall and reinstall?

Third, this shouldn't kill my recordings. I assume whatever happened to my recordings was when I was installing the Zipper itself. Right?

Fourth, kind of a seperate issue. I would like to use the callerid feature and keep a phone line hooked up, but it seems like the periodic reboot would also be wise. Why do you suggest not having the twice a week reboot if you are leaving a phone line connected?

Thanks again for all the help.

[rbautch]

Ok, thanks. I have a couple more questions:

First, just to be sure. I have the FA120 USB/Ethernet adapter. Once I uninstall/reinstall the Tweak.sh, these should work fine. I shouldn't have to connect by serial cable, or anything like that?

Second, do I need to reboot in between running the uninstall and reinstall?

Third, this shouldn't kill my recordings. I assume whatever happened to my recordings was when I was installing the Zipper itself. Right?

Fourth, kind of a seperate issue. I would like to use the callerid feature and keep a phone line hooked up, but it seems like the periodic reboot would also be wise. Why do you suggest not having the twice a week reboot if you are leaving a phone line connected?

Thanks again for all the help.
1. No.
2. No.
3. Not sure. Nothing in the Zipper would kill your recordings, unless you changed images, switched tivos, or ran 51killer.tcl.
4. I DO suggest the periodic reboot in order to reset the "last successful" call attempt, fooking your tivo into thinking it's never overdue for a phone call to the mothership. You can get away without the reboots, and the call will still fail, but your tivo may try to pick up the phone to try anyway. This can be annoying if you happen to be on the phone at the time.

[tnedator]

3. Not sure. Nothing in the Zipper would kill your recordings, unless you changed images, switched tivos, or ran 51killer.tcl.


Ok, this may be the culprit. When I run tweak.sh, the script says it found a new image (or comehing like that, and says something about running 51 something, I am guessing the 51killer.tcl you mention.

I reran it remotedly, so I am not home to check the recordings, but I wonder if they will be killed again after the uninstall/reinstall I just did, when it set it found the image and did the 51.

I am not sure if it is finding the image of my failed instant-cake install (it never finished) or the MFSRestore I did after the instant-cake install failed.

[cheer]

Once 51killer has been run, if the recordings are encrypted you're pretty much SOL since 51killer nukes the DiskConfiguration key. Sad but true.

[jjz]

Hi all
I'm attempting to make the switch from a FA120 USB to an airlink ASOHOUSB and I am having problems
I have an hdvr2 which I zippered using version 1.4 about 2-3 months ago- worked perfected with the FA120
Today I simply plugged in the airlink adaptor- none of the leds light up (as expected)- I then edited the usb.map file to include the line for the ASOHOUSB- now both leds light up (power and link) but I cannot telnet in or see the adaptor on my network.
I also tried using the usbmap script- still no luck
Any ideas?- thanks in advance

[tnedator]

Once 51killer has been run, if the recordings are encrypted you're pretty much SOL since 51killer nukes the DiskConfiguration key. Sad but true.

Ok, 51killer, kills disables encryption, and any recordings prior to that are toast?

Is there any option to have my cake and eat it? meaning, preserve recordings and disable crypto?

[rbautch]

Ok, this may be the culprit. When I run tweak.sh, the script says it found a new image (or comehing like that, and says something about running 51 something, I am guessing the 51killer.tcl you mention.

I reran it remotedly, so I am not home to check the recordings, but I wonder if they will be killed again after the uninstall/reinstall I just did, when it set it found the image and did the 51.

I am not sure if it is finding the image of my failed instant-cake install (it never finished) or the MFSRestore I did after the instant-cake install failed.If you have the Zipper install an image for you, it sets a flag that signals tweak.sh to run 51killer. The theory is, if you're installing a new image, then you don't have any recordings to keep. When the Zipper asks you if you have any recordings you want to keep, and you say "no", it sets that same flag.

edit: If you run the Zipper and install a new image, then record a bunch of shows before you get around to running tweak. sh, then those shows will be toast.

[tnedator]

edit: If you run the Zipper and install a new image, then record a bunch of shows before you get around to running tweak. sh, then those shows will be toast.

This is what happened. I ran zipper over the weekend, but didn't get the FA120's until yesterday. I had recorded several programs between installing the Zipper and getting networked and running tweak.sh.

One final question.

Doing a transfer with tyshow, I am only getting around 1meg/sec even after installing the USB 2.0 drivers. I am on a Super G (MIMO) wireless network, but when I hooked my laptop up to the bridge, I was able to download at over 400 KB/sec.

Is this the kind of speed 1 to 1.4meg/sec, or does that indicate the USB 2.0 drivers aren't installed right, or there is another problem?

[jjz]

Hi all
I'm attempting to make the switch from a FA120 USB to an airlink ASOHOUSB and I am having problems
I have an hdvr2 which I zippered using version 1.4 about 2-3 months ago- worked perfected with the FA120
Today I simply plugged in the airlink adaptor- none of the leds light up (as expected)- I then edited the usb.map file to include the line for the ASOHOUSB- now both leds light up (power and link) but I cannot telnet in or see the adaptor on my network.
I also tried using the usbmap script- still no luck
Any ideas?- thanks in advance

It gets even weirder-- I hooked up the new airlinks to two of my three tivos while I was trouble shooting- any guess what- they can see each other and MRV- but the third tivo on the Fa-120 cannot see them- also on my router I see no DHCP assignments to either tivo- back to working on my serial cable!
Here's my serial output with the airlink using ifconfig:
bash-2.02# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:4974 dropped:80 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:5B:04:94:60
inet addr:169.254.228.207 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:1866 dropped:13 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

and here's it with my fa120
bash-2.02# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:3800 dropped:63 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:E3:CF:70
inet addr:192.168.0.112 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:1781 dropped:17 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0


EDIT- I fixed the problem- I need to update usbnet.o to the latest version- thanks Jamie

[cheer]

Ok, 51killer, kills disables encryption, and any recordings prior to that are toast?

Is there any option to have my cake and eat it? meaning, preserve recordings and disable crypto?
51killer does not disable encryption; superpatch does that.

All Tivo drives have a DiskConfiguration key stored in MFS. This key, created with the on-board crypto chip, is used to create the individual keys associated with each recording. Now, if you restore an image previously made on another Tivo, the DiskConfiguration key won't "match" the crypto chip, and you'll get an Error 51. 51killer just nukes that key, since generally if you're restoring an image from another box (or InstantCake or whatever) you don't have recordings (or if you do they'd have to be unencrypted anyway).

I may have oversimplified somewhat; if I did Jamie will come along and fix things. :)

[cheer]

Crap, hit Alt-S before I was done.

OK, so...normally there's no problem disabling encryption but watching encrypted shows. So long as (A) the DiskConfiguration key is still present and (B) the encrypted shows still have their CSO keys, they're watchable. But if either (A) the DiskConfiguration key gets nuked (via 51killer.tcl) or (B) the CSO keys are cleared (via csoscout or some such), then the're not watchable.

All of this assumes, of course, that the shows were recorded on the Tivo you're trying to watch 'em on. You can't move encrypted shows to another Tivo and watch them (well, you can with MRV, but that's another discussion) by backing up and restoring an image.

[tecnofile]

Hey all,
I have, or should say had, a HDVR2 that I had used the 1.6 zipper on with a new larger HD some months ago, that was working great until a couple days ago when my house got zapped by lightning. It looks like the mobo got fried in my zippered HDVR2 but I think the HD is ok. I also have a second HDVR2 laying around that a friend gave me that he didnt use anymore so I kept it for a backup.

I have read through this thread and some others and am still unsure if im understanding correctly, so here's my question.

So can I take the zippered HD out of the fried HDVR2 and put into my backup HDVR2 without any problems? I have several ppv movies I purchased that I hadnt watched yet and some other stuff on there I would still like to watch. :/ Just wondering if after the swap my movies would still be there and be watchable and/or if there are any other problems with doing this??? As best as I am understanding it the movies and stuff on the drive should be unencrypted correct?? Should I run the 51killer.tcl or something else?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[Draven X. Byrne]

Hey all,
IShould I run the 51killer.tcl or something else?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

If the shows were recorded after you zippered and ran 51killer.tcl then it should play in another tivo. Do NOT run 51killer on the TiVo after you put this HD in it - if you do it'll render these shows dead.

DXB

[cheer]

If the shows were recorded after you zippered and ran 51killer.tcl then it should play in another tivo.51killer has nothing to do with it -- it's the superpatch, which AFAIK is run as part of tweak.sh.
Do NOT run 51killer on the TiVo after you put this HD in it - if you do it'll render these shows dead.Not if they're not encrypted -- 51killer shouldn't bother them at all.

[sjmaye]

My Zippered dual drive HD D*Tivo began locking up within an hour or two of booting. I tried several things, but no luck. So I put the original drive back in for now.

I thought I would start all over. First I hooked up my Tivo B drive on hda and the cdrom drive on hdc. It got all the way through the image restore. After clean up it reported it failed.

I thought I would image and Zipper the Tivo A drive. Got all the way through and got the error- "Not enough extra space to expand A drive "

I thought the drive image would overwrite the whole drive. Do I need to do some sort of drive prep before trying to apply the image? :confused:

PS- I do not have a backup file of my original Tivo drive.

[Gunnyman]

nope
Sadly drive geometry comes into play here. A 40 GB drive is not always the same from one drive to the next. The image will fit on a drive LARGER than the one it is for, but not always one the same size.

[sjmaye]

nope
Sadly drive geometry comes into play here. A 40 GB drive is not always the same from one drive to the next. The image will fit on a drive LARGER than the one it is for, but not always one the same size.

But this is the same 250GB single drive that was Zippered and run successfully for over a week or two before I went to adding an additional drive. Are you saying the same drive can't be Zippered twice?

[Runch Machine]

I previously Zippered a Samsung DirecTivo for wired networking. Is there a way to have it work with the new Tivo wireless adapter?

[ForrestB]

No 802.11g wireless adapters are supported by a zippered Directivo. See here for a list of supported adapters http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks

[Gunnyman]

But this is the same 250GB single drive that was Zippered and run successfully for over a week or two before I went to adding an additional drive. Are you saying the same drive can't be Zippered twice?
No not at all. I'm sorry I assumed you were using a 40 gig image on a 40 gig drive. Sorry for the confusion. Sounds like a bad drive.

[dlmcmurr]

This script will modify your usb.map and you shouldn't have to pull your drive. Lightly tested.
Your usbmap.sh script posted here on 8/21/06 worked great! My AGIGAUSB is up and running. Thanks go to rbautch, JamieP and rpdre1 for their work. Looking forward to trying zipper 1.7 on the wife's dtivo soon.

Dave

[MurrayW]

I have a RCA DVR40 Series 2 DirecTiVo that I zippered a few months ago and was using as a MRV only unit. I noticed that TWP was not running the same on this unit as on my other Series 2 units. I ran tweak_uninstall.sh then tweak.sh.

After rebooting, I lost my network connectivity with this unit. The power light came on for my Netgear F120 but the Link/Act light did not. I swapped out this F120 with another one connected to another TiVo with no luck -- the original one attached to the RCA DVR40 started working on the 2nd TiVo and the one from the 2nd TiVo that was working stopped working on the DVR40.

I tried differerent ethernet cables, a different network port and the other USB port on the DVR40 with no difference. I pulled the drive out of the DVR40 and re-zippered it. After putting it back into the TiVo and rebooting twice, I still did not get a connection with my FA120. I then connected a serial cable to the DVR40 and was able to HyperTerminal into the DVR40. I ran tweak_uninstall.sh and tweak.sh again still with no luck.

What should I try next? I am confident that the USB ports are OK since this all started with the first reboot after the uninstall / re-install of tweak.sh.

thanks,
Murray

[sandpj]

It has been a while, so I thougt I would rerun the the tweak script. I uninstalled and ran tweak with no apparent problem and then rebooted.

I have two green lights on the Netgear F120, but can not can not even ping.

I connected serial cable and can not seem to get bash. Here is the end of the serial file:

starting rc.sysinit.author
set environmental variables
starting telnet and ftp
starting serial bash
running fakecall
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-2.02# Running fakecall version 6
Fakecall ran successfully!
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Starting netserver at port 12865
server_set_up: binding the socket: Address already in use
Starting netserver at port 12865
ApgManager Transition from state BOOT to FAST_LOAD
/tivowebplus/tivoweb: /tivowebplus/.dist/BlockFailure: Read-only file system
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
rc.sysinit is complete
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to STEADY_STATE
....sending Done event
....sending Done event

I get a blinking cursor but no bash prompt.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

[MurrayW]

...

I get a blinking cursor but no bash prompt.

I would appreciate any suggestions.
Hit return.

[MurrayW]

I have a RCA DVR40 Series 2 DirecTiVo that I zippered a few months ago and was using as a MRV only unit. I noticed that TWP was not running the same on this unit as on my other Series 2 units. I ran tweak_uninstall.sh then tweak.sh.

After rebooting, I lost my network connectivity with this unit. The power light came on for my Netgear F120 but the Link/Act light did not. I swapped out this F120 with another one connected to another TiVo with no luck -- the original one attached to the RCA DVR40 started working on the 2nd TiVo and the one from the 2nd TiVo that was working stopped working on the DVR40.

I tried differerent ethernet cables, a different network port and the other USB port on the DVR40 with no difference. I pulled the drive out of the DVR40 and re-zippered it. After putting it back into the TiVo and rebooting twice, I still did not get a connection with my FA120. I then connected a serial cable to the DVR40 and was able to HyperTerminal into the DVR40. I ran tweak_uninstall.sh and tweak.sh again still with no luck.

What should I try next? I am confident that the USB ports are OK since this all started with the first reboot after the uninstall / re-install of tweak.sh.

thanks,
Murray
Just tried re-zippering 1 more time with the same results. When I plug the USB connection in each USB port, I get this message from the hyperterminal connection:

bash-2.02# usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x846/0x1040) is not claimed by any active driver.
bash-2.02# usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x846/0x1040) is not claimed by any active driver.

Any ideas?

[sandpj]

Hit return.

Tried but no luck. The cursor did stop blinking for a few seconds.

[sandpj]

Tried but no luck. The cursor did stop blinking for a few seconds.

Got Bash.....Had to turn off flow control

[mgallego]

Hi Guys,

I have a couple of questions. Iamb using the Hinsdale approach and copied the drive from a 120 to a 250gb drive. Installed the larger drive in the Tivo and the copied worked, but I didn't get the full space although the boot cd did see it. (I bought the $5 cd). The Hinsdale guide said my tivo (Samsung 4040) cannot support HDs larger the 120, but I thought that the $5 cd was suppose to change that. I used step #7 and option 3. tested hd. Put back in Tivo and tried step 10 option 3 got the error -> Restore failed. Backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself. The HDs are connected right, I only disconnected the new larger drive. I hoping someone can help me so that I can get zipper running.

Thanks Mike

[Gunnyman]

Hinsdale hasn't been updates in quite a while
try this instead
http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php
Also a 120 GB drive as already been expanded and cannot be made larger. The only way to do that is to make a backup of your OS only and restore that to a larger drive, losing recordings, or get an instantcake image.

[sandpj]

Well this is frustrating. I had lost CID on a couple of units and thought I would rerun tweak. Both units seemed to uninstall and install just fine, but now I can not ping either unit. I connected serially to one unit and reran network setup, but still no change. I get green power light on FA120.

Any suggestions?

edit: I get green light on Linksys wireless USB.

[sandpj]

I have checked WEP setting....I have even tried to run with WEP disabled. I can not even ping the wusb11 adapter on either unit.

Both units I have ran setSSIDwep.tcl via serial and confirmed settings.

Could there be something else that foobarred my usb drivers when I ran the tweak script? (I said yes to 2.0 drivers) I do have a green power light.

Thx..Paul

[MurrayW]

I have checked WEP setting....I have even tried to run with WEP disabled. I can not even ping the wusb11 adapter on either unit.

Both units I have ran setSSIDwep.tcl via serial and confirmed settings.

Could there be something else that foobarred my usb drivers when I ran the tweak script? (I said yes to 2.0 drivers) I do have a green power light.

Thx..PaulI have something going on with my network connection also (see post 7199) and am looking for help also. Paul, it must be a Texas thing!

[sandpj]

Man...this stinks! I just yanked a FA120 off one of the wired Tivos and ran unsetSSIDwep.tcl and net-launch.tcl to establish wired connection. Rebooted and still can not ping. I get a green power light, but no link activity.

Something definitely got foobarred when we reran tweak.

Please help!

[sandpj]

One other note. I got a strange message when I ran net-launch:

bash-2.02# net-launch.sh
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Do you want set a static IP address or use DHCP? Enter s or d here: s
Please enter a static IP address for your Tivo: 192.168.1.123
Please enter the IP address of your router: 192.168.1.1

The following IP parameters are now set in MFS:
IP address is currently set to: 192.168.1.123
Default gateway is currently set to: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask is currently set to: 255.255.255.0
DNS Server is currently set to: 4.2.2.2
DHCP is off
NO WIRELESS PARAMETERS ARE SET IN MFS

[rbautch]

Just tried re-zippering 1 more time with the same results. When I plug the USB connection in each USB port, I get this message from the hyperterminal connection:

bash-2.02# usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x846/0x1040) is not claimed by any active driver.
bash-2.02# usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x846/0x1040) is not claimed by any active driver.

Any ideas? These messages are normal and can be ignored.

[rbautch]

It has been a while, so I thougt I would rerun the the tweak script. I uninstalled and ran tweak with no apparent problem and then rebooted.
Today was not the best time to re-run tweak.sh. I've been doing some testing of a new version, and you may by chance have downloaded an intermediate test version that was broken. The likely culprit is the /etc/hotplug/usp.map. You'll have to pull the drive and restore the usb.map.orig to usb.map.

[rbautch]

One other note. I got a strange message when I ran net-launch:

bash-2.02# net-launch.sh
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Do you want set a static IP address or use DHCP? Enter s or d here: s
Please enter a static IP address for your Tivo: 192.168.1.123
Please enter the IP address of your router: 192.168.1.1

The following IP parameters are now set in MFS:
IP address is currently set to: 192.168.1.123
Default gateway is currently set to: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask is currently set to: 255.255.255.0
DNS Server is currently set to: 4.2.2.2
DHCP is off
NO WIRELESS PARAMETERS ARE SET IN MFS
Nothing strange here.

[sandpj]

Nothing strange here.

Except I can not get a network connection.

I justtried to rerun tweak, but of course it will not download the enhancement script. Any way to run it without pulling the drive and re-zipper?

[Lord Vader]

rbautch, is there a way to make that little clock in the lower right corner and the corresponding recording timer a permanent option that's automatically enabled upon reboot? Right now, it's an option that has to be turned on whenever a TIVO reboots. I'm sure some folks don't like it, but if there was a way that Zipper would ask someone if they want it as default, that'd be great.

Personally, I don't have any problems with it, but my folks and brother never seem to remember how to enable it every time their TIVO reboots, yet they miss it when it's not there. This is why I ask if it can be permanently enabled via some option upon Zippering.

Just a suggestion.

[sandpj]

Except I can not get a network connection.

I justtried to rerun tweak, but of course it will not download the enhancement script. Any way to run it without pulling the drive and re-zipper?

OK. I downloaded Rbautch scripts onto computer and uploaded via serial into /hacks and reran tweak.

Got wired connection and just changed to wireless. Working fine, but I have no idea why the problems when I downloaded the scripts as part of the tweak process.

[MurrayW]

Today was not the best time to re-run tweak.sh. I've been doing some testing of a new version, and you may by chance have downloaded an intermediate test version that was broken. The likely culprit is the /etc/hotplug/usp.map. You'll have to pull the drive and restore the usb.map.orig to usb.map.
I have rezippered twice using a CD that is at least 3 months old. Does that not replace the usb.map? Is there something else I need to do other than just re-zippering?

I just checked /etc/hotplug with my serial connection and had these 3 files in that directory: usb.map usb.map.orig usb.map.original

What is the difference between usb.map.orig and usb.map.original? Is there a way from my serial connecton to copy the usb.map.orig to usb.map? Sorry, I am not too proficient on Linux.

thanks,
Murray

[sandpj]

I uploaded the rbautch to the second Tivo and tried to run tweak.sh. It would not recognize that the rbautch file is already in /hacks and tried to download from the internet.

I then tried to upload the same tweak.sh file I used on the first Tivo, but now I get the following error:

bash-2.02# tweak.sh
./tweak.sh: line 123: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./tweak.sh: line 132: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I ran dos2unix tweak.sh with no success. Any suggestions?

[huhwha]

I have rezippered twice using a CD that is at least 3 months old. Does that not replace the usb.map? Is there something else I need to do other than just re-zippering?

I just checked /etc/hotplug with my serial connection and had these 3 files in that directory: usb.map usb.map.orig usb.map.original

What is the difference between usb.map.orig and usb.map.original? Is there a way from my serial connecton to copy the usb.map.orig to usb.map? Sorry, I am not too proficient on Linux.

thanks,
Murray

I'm with Murray - same thing - and I'm no smarter than him :o

Thanks for any help!

[rbautch]

I uploaded the rbautch to the second Tivo and tried to run tweak.sh. It would not recognize that the rbautch file is already in /hacks and tried to download from the internet.

I then tried to upload the same tweak.sh file I used on the first Tivo, but now I get the following error:

bash-2.02# tweak.sh
./tweak.sh: line 123: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./tweak.sh: line 132: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I ran dos2unix tweak.sh with no success. Any suggestions?You have to run tweak.sh from the same directory as rbautch_files.tgz for it to be recognized. I haven't changed tweak.sh for quite some time, so your file may be corrupt somehow. Try ftping a fresh copy of tweak.sh from the 1st post of the enhancement script thread.

[rbautch]

I have rezippered twice using a CD that is at least 3 months old. Does that not replace the usb.map? Is there something else I need to do other than just re-zippering?

I just checked /etc/hotplug with my serial connection and had these 3 files in that directory: usb.map usb.map.orig usb.map.original

What is the difference between usb.map.orig and usb.map.original? Is there a way from my serial connecton to copy the usb.map.orig to usb.map? Sorry, I am not too proficient on Linux.

thanks,
MurrayNo. The hotplug modifications start with version 1.7. Unless you have an Airlink or Linksys USB200M v2 adapter, you don't need the usb.map mods. However if you ran tweak.sh last night, it may have deleted your usb.map altogether. You can delete the usb.map.orignal file. Rename usb.map.orig with: mv usb.map.orig usb.map

[sandpj]

You have to run tweak.sh from the same directory as rbautch_files.tgz for it to be recognized. I haven't changed tweak.sh for quite some time, so your file may be corrupt somehow. Try ftping a fresh copy of tweak.sh from the 1st post of the enhancement script thread.

I'm not sure how it happened, but my copy of tweak had some " marks that were causing some problems.

In any case, I had to connect via wired connection first and establish a network connection and then run setSSIDwep.tcl to enable wireless.

[sandpj]

I have rezippered twice using a CD that is at least 3 months old. Does that not replace the usb.map? Is there something else I need to do other than just re-zippering?

I just checked /etc/hotplug with my serial connection and had these 3 files in that directory: usb.map usb.map.orig usb.map.original

What is the difference between usb.map.orig and usb.map.original? Is there a way from my serial connecton to copy the usb.map.orig to usb.map? Sorry, I am not too proficient on Linux.

thanks,
Murray

Murray: Do you have an adapter to allow you to connect via wire? For some reason I had to get connected via wire before I could re-establish my wireless connection.

[rmharris157]

So I did the zipper to my directivo and it seemed to work just fine.

However, I ran a "Clear and Delete Everything" and now I can't log in over the Ethernet.

What is the default IP so I can log back in and change it back to my LAN (or DHCP?)

Thanks.
-R

[rbautch]

There is no default IP. Next time, don't do a clear and delete.

[rmharris157]

OK, so how I recover? What do I re-run?
-R

[asatyss]

Ok, so I am back with my noob questions because I have finally gotten around to Zippering my DirecTivo. I tried it on my spare Phillips Series 2 DirecTivo to test it out before doing it to my "full time" Hughes.

After I followed all of the instructions and installed the drive back in the unit, I booted and never saw anythign different than when I would see pre hack. The instructions (letter L in the instructions) mentioned "Before it finishes booting, your tivo will reboot automatically in order to set your network parameters. This is normal, and only happens when you boot for the first time after running the Zipper."

I never saw this and now I am getting the error that a lot of people seem to get when I try to telnet in, the cannot connect through Port 23 message.

I am using a Linksys WUSB11. From everything I read, I can use this adapter, and I don't think I need a wired adapter. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Do I need to try to redo the Zipper?

Thanks in advance.

[rbautch]

OK, so how I recover? What do I re-run?
-RThere are two options. One is to connect with a serial cable and run the tweak.sh script, which will retore your network settings. The other is the start from scratch and re-run the Zipper.

[rbautch]

Ok, so I am back with my noob questions because I have finally gotten around to Zippering my DirecTivo. I tried it on my spare Phillips Series 2 DirecTivo to test it out before doing it to my "full time" Hughes.

After I followed all of the instructions and installed the drive back in the unit, I booted and never saw anythign different than when I would see pre hack. The instructions (letter L in the instructions) mentioned "Before it finishes booting, your tivo will reboot automatically in order to set your network parameters. This is normal, and only happens when you boot for the first time after running the Zipper."

I never saw this and now I am getting the error that a lot of people seem to get when I try to telnet in, the cannot connect through Port 23 message.

I am using a Linksys WUSB11. From everything I read, I can use this adapter, and I don't think I need a wired adapter. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Do I need to try to redo the Zipper?

Thanks in advance.
Are you sure your adapter is compatible? Newer versions of the WUSB11 are not.

[asatyss]

It is a version 2.8, according to the Zipper Wiki, that adapter is supported.

[MurrayW]

Murray: Do you have an adapter to allow you to connect via wire? For some reason I had to get connected via wire before I could re-establish my wireless connection.I am ONLY trying to connect through a wired connection -- not attempting wireless.

[MurrayW]

There are two options. One is to connect with a serial cable and run the tweak.sh script, which will retore your network settings. The other is the start from scratch and re-run the Zipper.Sorry to be such a pest, but I must be missing something simple. I renamed my USB.Orig to USB.Map and rebooted and still get no connectivitiy. I try to run tweak.sh using my serial cable and it gets stopped on the step where it is trying to connect to the internet to get an updated version. I've re-zippered twice and still have no luck.

Do I need to delete some files (maybe all the USB related files?) BEFORE re-zippering? It almost seems as if some file that is corrupted never gets replaced when I re-zipper my drive, leading to no connectivity once I put the drive back in my DirecTiVo and try to connect to my wired network using an Netgear FA120.

Thanks in advance for any help to getting my network connection working again.

Murray

[rbautch]

It is a version 2.8, according to the Zipper Wiki, that adapter is supported.Yes it is. It's possible that the backported drivers are causing the problem. Please PM me if you're willing to do some troubleshooting.

[rbautch]

Sorry to be such a pest, but I must be missing something simple. I renamed my USB.Orig to USB.Map and rebooted and still get no connectivitiy. I try to run tweak.sh using my serial cable and it gets stopped on the step where it is trying to connect to the internet to get an updated version. I've re-zippered twice and still have no luck.

Do I need to delete some files (maybe all the USB related files?) BEFORE re-zippering? It almost seems as if some file that is corrupted never gets replaced when I re-zipper my drive, leading to no connectivity once I put the drive back in my DirecTiVo and try to connect to my wired network using an Netgear FA120.

Thanks in advance for any help to getting my network connection working again.

MurrayTry restoring a virgin usb.map file (attached) to /etc/hotplug. If still no luck, try restoring the original USB drivers.

[MurrayW]

Try restoring a virgin usb.map file (attached) to /etc/hotplug. If still no luck, try restoring the original USB drivers.Thanks I will give that a try tonight. Just out of curiosity, does re-zippering the drive restore the usb.map file and the original USB drvers? Because re-zippering has not worked for me.

Thanks for the patience.

Murray

[Jonathan_S]

Welcome to the fold Jonathan. :)
Thank you.
The FA-120s came in Friday, and I now have both TiVos up and multi room viewing working.

Love the zipper; great work.

[rbautch]

Thanks I will give that a try tonight. Just out of curiosity, does re-zippering the drive restore the usb.map file and the original USB drvers? Because re-zippering has not worked for me.

Thanks for the patience.

MurrayNo. The Zipper looks for the usb.map.orig, and if it's found, it does nothing. If it's not found, it appends the usb.map with the new entries. Once the drive is in the tivo, the tweak.sh script will also look for the backup file, and if it's found will skip any driver mods. If you run tweak_uninstall.sh, it will restore the stock drivers and the original usb.map. The implication here is that if you have an adapter that is not supported by the stock drivers (like the Airlink adpaters), and you run the uninstall script, you better run tweak.sh again before you reboot.

[ers26]

I've recently Zippered my 4 DTV Tivos and I was wondering if anyone else has had issues with folders for shows that were transferred using MRV? For me, most of the time the transferred shows don't group into folders, but occasionally they do. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to why some shows group together in folders on the destination TIVO and some don't. The shows on the original TIVO were all in groups.

Has anyone else experienced this and if so, is there a fix?

Thanks,

Ed

[Jonathan_S]

I've recently Zippered my 4 DTV Tivos and I was wondering if anyone else has had issues with folders for shows that were transferred using MRV? For me, most of the time the transferred shows don't group into folders, but occasionally they do. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to why some shows group together in folders on the destination TIVO and some don't. The shows on the original TIVO were all in groups.

Has anyone else experienced this and if so, is there a fix?

Thanks,

Ed
It is a side effect of how the TiVo does MRV. It happens on all TiVos that have MRV, not just zippered DTiVos.

Basically, the TiVo doesn't transfer all the show information when the show it moved. So it will only get sorted into a folder on the new TiVo if the episode is still in the guide data of the new TiVo.

For DTiVos, that basically means, if you transfer it within a week or so of the program being recorded it should group; later than that and it won't.

(For Standalone TiVos you also have to deal with different lineups. If one TiVo is configured for cable and the other for OTA, the OTA TiVo will never group anything from the other TiVo that was recorded from a cable only channel)

[TT Doug]

Been doing lots of reading and lots of searching. Just want to make sure I got everything straight.

Pretty much the prerequisites for the Zipper are the appropriate TiVo model and that model needs to have software ver. 6.2. Correct?

So in theory I should be able to Zipper my old HDVR2 (added two drives to it years and years ago) and keep all my recordings and settings that are on there?

[rbautch]

It is a side effect of how the TiVo does MRV. It happens on all TiVos that have MRV, not just zippered DTiVos.

Basically, the TiVo doesn't transfer all the show information when the show it moved. So it will only get sorted into a folder on the new TiVo if the episode is still in the guide data of the new TiVo.

For DTiVos, that basically means, if you transfer it within a week or so of the program being recorded it should group; later than that and it won't.

(For Standalone TiVos you also have to deal with different lineups. If one TiVo is configured for cable and the other for OTA, the OTA TiVo will never group anything from the other TiVo that was recorded from a cable only channel)The next version of the enhancement script will have a customized version of Tivowebplus with lgkhan's ui.itcl module which allows you to add shows to folders, rename folders, or create new folders. Should be in the next day or so.

[SteelersFan]

Been doing lots of reading and lots of searching. Just want to make sure I got everything straight.

Pretty much the prerequisites for the Zipper are the appropriate TiVo model and that model needs to have software ver. 6.2. Correct?

So in theory I should be able to Zipper my old HDVR2 (added two drives to it years and years ago) and keep all my recordings and settings that are on there?
Yes & yes. Be aware that if you try to Zipper your factory drives and mess up you may loose recordings ... or worse. If you're not too worried then go for it. I was successful on 4 factory drives. I did not, however, perform The Zipper on a factory drive on the first. I took the original out and put away for safe keeping just in case.

[SteelersFan]

The next version of the enhancement script will have a customized version of Tivowebplus with lgkhan's ui.itcl module which allows you to add shows to folders, rename folders, or create new folders. Should be in the next day or so.
Just to make sure I understand (and anyone else who might not be sure), what lgkhan's module does is add folders to TWP but not the NPL of the Tivo itself, right? I point this out because I think the OP was referring to the Tivo NPL when (s)he asked about MRV'd shows not getting into folders as they were before they were transferred.

[rbautch]

Just to make sure I understand (and anyone else who might not be sure), what lgkhan's module does is add folders to TWP but not the NPL of the Tivo itself, right?Right. edit: I misunderstood the question - it actually changes it on the NPL.

[TT Doug]

Yes & yes. Be aware that if you try to Zipper your factory drives and mess up you may loose recordings ... or worse. If you're not too worried then go for it. I was successful on 4 factory drives. I did not, however, perform The Zipper on a factory drive on the first. I took the original out and put away for safe keeping just in case.

Thanks again SteelersFan! 2 for 2 now.

[kimsan]

Gunny, Russ, anybody,

I just got DSL and for future simplicity I may change my net IPs from x.x.0.x to x.x.1.x and that's what the new router defaults to.

Is there an easy way to change IPs post-Zipper or can someone point me to the correct file?

[SteelersFan]

Right.
Cool. This is something I've thought about doing anyway.

By the way, is there any way to keep the Tivo Service and DTV Showcase recordings out of the (TWP) To Do List? There are so many of them and there seem to be more and more everyday.

[SteelersFan]

Thanks again SteelersFan! 2 for 2 now.
Thanks. I seem to be your private thread answerer. ;)

[SteelersFan]

Gunny, Russ, anybody,

I just got DSL and for future simplicity I may change my net IPs from x.x.0.x to x.x.1.x and that's what the new router defaults to.

Is there an easy way to change IPs post-Zipper or can someone point me to the correct file?
If you installed TWP, there's a module called Net Config that should do the trick. If you do use this, don't forget to reboot the box afterwards.

[kimsan]

If you installed TWP, there's a module called Net Config that should do the trick. If you do use this, don't forget to reboot the box afterwards.


I've got TWP but no net config is obvious. Maybe I should mention it's an HR10-250?

I'll go looking for it on the modules pages though :)

Thanks!

[cheer]

I've got TWP but no net config is obvious. Maybe I should mention it's an HR10-250?

I'll go looking for it on the modules pages though :)

Thanks!
Net Config doesn't work with the HR10-250. You need to edit your rc.sysinit.author file (either telnet in and use vi, or if you have Hackman installed I think you can do it from there) and change the IP.

[SteelersFan]

Right. edit: I misunderstood the question - it actually changes it on the NPL.
Even better.

[kimsan]

Net Config doesn't work with the HR10-250. You need to edit your rc.sysinit.author file (either telnet in and use vi, or if you have Hackman installed I think you can do it from there) and change the IP.

Thanks, Chris.

Now save me ove more step and tell me where rc.sysinit.author live please.

I can handle the details of the action, but I'm not so quick on the where.


Nevermind...I got it :)

[cheer]

In case anyone else needs to know...it's in /etc/rc.d.