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

[stevecon]

I wanted to update the enhancement script - so I telnetted in, changed to /hacks and I got an error - and the script ended after being asked if I wanted the express version. So, I just reran it - I captured the session below:


SD-bash# tweak.sh
Enhancements directory detected. Run the uninstall script first. Exiting...
SD-bash# tweak_uninstall.sh
Removing directories and files...
Skipping TWP uninstall...
Skipping cron uninstall...
Skipping CallerID uninstall...
Skipping fakecall restore...
Skipping driver restore...
No bakup profile found, skipping profile restore...
No backup splash screen found, skipping splash restore...
Done!
SD-bash# ls
mfs_network superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.1.tcl
network.tcl tweak.sh
set_mrv_name_67.tcl tweak_uninstall.sh
SD-bash# tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
rbautch_files.tgz 100% |*****************************| 3713 KB 00:00 ETA
Downloaded main scripts successfully!


Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: Invalid tar magic
mv: /enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: y
cat: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
SD-bash#

The "tar: Invalid tar magic" line looks like it's the problem - but I have no idea how to get around it. Any help?

Thanks!

[bnm81002]

Steve, did you just try to install the enhancement scripts? I tried to install it as well and got errors too, I PM "rbautch" hopefully it's from his end and not from our end that is causing problems

[Lord Vader]

.. or perhaps the power supply (http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Antec-Notebook-Cooler-75004/sem/rpsm/oid/89840/catOid/-13011/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do) ?

That's a ridiculously expensive cooler. I got a 4-fan one for around $20. (Don't ask me where, either, because it was a couple years ago.) It has run 24/7 ever since I got it.

[Lord Vader]

I wanted to update the enhancement script - so I telnetted in, changed to /hacks and I got an error - and the script ended after being asked if I wanted the express version. So, I just reran it - I captured the session below:


SD-bash# tweak.sh
Enhancements directory detected. Run the uninstall script first. Exiting...
SD-bash# tweak_uninstall.sh
Removing directories and files...
Skipping TWP uninstall...
Skipping cron uninstall...
Skipping CallerID uninstall...
Skipping fakecall restore...
Skipping driver restore...
No bakup profile found, skipping profile restore...
No backup splash screen found, skipping splash restore...
Done!
SD-bash# ls
mfs_network superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.1.tcl
network.tcl tweak.sh
set_mrv_name_67.tcl tweak_uninstall.sh
SD-bash# tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
rbautch_files.tgz 100% |*****************************| 3713 KB 00:00 ETA
Downloaded main scripts successfully!


Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: Invalid tar magic
mv: /enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: y
cat: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
SD-bash#

The "tar: Invalid tar magic" line looks like it's the problem - but I have no idea how to get around it. Any help?

Thanks!

Try manually FTPing the rbautch tar file, then run the script and choose NO when asked if you want to run express mode. See if that works. It did for me when I had a similar problem.

[trebu2002]

Thank you all for your input!

1) I've tried Windows XP extraction, WinZip and 7-Zip - All fail to unzip zipper.zip because rbautch_files.tgz and vmlinux.px fail the CRC check. Anyone else experienced this?

2) I have a hacked RCA-DVR40 S2 DTIVO that is running 6.2 but networking is not working. Should I worry that using zipper will cause me any problems with already saved shows, etc?

Thanks again!

[Xtra7973]

I wanted to update the enhancement script - so I telnetted in, changed to /hacks and I got an error - and the script ended after being asked if I wanted the express version. So, I just reran it - I captured the session below:


Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: Invalid tar magic
mv: /enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: y
cat: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
SD-bash#

The "tar: Invalid tar magic" line looks like it's the problem - but I have no idea how to get around it. Any help?

Thanks!

Your going to have to wait until rbautch fixes his site. If you go here (http://www.mastersav.com/Tivo_Zipper/zipper.zip) and download the latest zipper zip file (sounds funny) and try to extract it you will notice there are a couple files that are corrupt. So just hold off until it's fixed.

[JpHudy]

I did get my Hughes Dtivo Zippered. Thanks to all the folks that make the software and those of you here that help answer questions and all.

One last question. I pulled the 40gig drive out of the tivo when I zippered it. BUT, I have a second identical tivo and I thought that I would do that one too. I don't want to have to buy another drive, however. I tried to zipper the 40gig drive from the 1st tivo to put in the second, but, I get an error that says that the drive is to small to extract my image to it. Does that make any sense?

[RobD]

Update on my errors: I brought the Celeron 400 machine home along with the 250GB drive. The zipper process failed here at home. The only thing that changed was that I was using the CDs I burned here at home (and did verification with Nero). So I burned a CD with the wife's computer and that zippered fine.

So maybe it isn't a P4 chipset issue, just a very funny burn. Maybe the NEC burner in my Dell laptop is going flakey, though the burns verified OK. The two CDs I did burn here at home last night I tried booting on both a DVD reader and the DVD burner in my Dell 8300.

Next I'll take these two questionable CDs into work and try them on the P3 computer with the 40GB drive to see if they fail there.

[kimsan]

Update from my last post:

My effort was to got a nice generic HR10-250 6.3b hacked image so I went this way:

Instantcake imaged the drive, installed to TiVo and brought to UP status.
Ran Zipper 2.5 and got net access.
Ran tweak and killed net access.

Attempt #2 went like this:

Instantcake imaged the drive, installed to TiVo and brought to UP status.
Ran Zipper 2.0 and got net access.
Ran tweak (I'll check the 2.0 version) and installed the usual extras with no hitch.
Copied over the latest rbautch_files.tgz, latest tweak.sh and latest tweak_uninstall.sh and ran tweak.sh.....killed usb/networking.

At this point I've reZippered (which reenabled net) and am trying to recover to advance to 6.3x.

PITA tonight!

[JWThiers]

I did get my Hughes Dtivo Zippered. Thanks to all the folks that make the software and those of you here that help answer questions and all.

One last question. I pulled the 40gig drive out of the tivo when I zippered it. BUT, I have a second identical tivo and I thought that I would do that one too. I don't want to have to buy another drive, however. I tried to zipper the 40gig drive from the 1st tivo to put in the second, but, I get an error that says that the drive is to small to extract my image to it. Does that make any sense?
Yes it makes sense. EVERY drive is slightly different, even from if they say they are the same size even from the same manufacturer. all drives have bad sectors and they are never exactly the same. One 40 GB drive might be 39.999 GB while another might be 40.001 GB. Your problem is the image you have for a 40 GB drive is slightly larger than your actual drive capacity. If you use it on a larger, say 60 GB, you wont have that issue. With drive prices this low spend the $ and get a big drive. You can find 250 GB for around $65 on www.pricewatch.com.

[JWThiers]

Update from my last post:

My effort was to got a nice generic HR10-250 6.3b hacked image so I went this way:

Instantcake imaged the drive, installed to TiVo and brought to UP status.
Ran Zipper 2.5 and got net access.
Ran tweak and killed net access.

Attempt #2 went like this:

Instantcake imaged the drive, installed to TiVo and brought to UP status.
Ran Zipper 2.0 and got net access.
Ran tweak (I'll check the 2.0 version) and installed the usual extras with no hitch.
Copied over the latest rbautch_files.tgz, latest tweak.sh and latest tweak_uninstall.sh and ran tweak.sh.....killed usb/networking.

At this point I've reZippered (which reenabled net) and am trying to recover to advance to 6.3x.

PITA tonight!
I believe if you read the NOTE on the Zipper site it says to zipper OS ver 3.1.5f then slice upgrade to 6.3a. I dont have an hr10 so I don't keep up that closely you could also I assume anyway go to 6.3b in a similar fashion. I would check the Upgrading your hacked hr10-250 to 6.3a thread for the current stat of affairs. Also I read somewhere that the latest zipper has some corrupt files that may or may not be an actual issue as well.

[JWThiers]

Inigo Montoya "I do not think it means what you think it means." :D
Spelling police? Sorry must have clicked on the wrong choice accidentally when I originally spell checked.

Just for you I will be more better careful when doing spelling check, also I try not to dangle any participles (gee I hope that is spelled write) either.

more happy? :D

[trebu2002]

Thanks rbautch for the fix, everything extracted fine from zipper.zip this time.

[luder]

Hey guys i'm pretty intrested in doing more for my dvr and intrested in some reviews before Zippering..
How is the Zipper latelly .. is it stable?
Do i need PTV boot cd to run this?
can i download zipper straight out and load it to the dvr?
How well does zipper handle with other mods?

[Neoistheone2000]

is there anyway i can update tivowebpluse every time i try to update it through the web site it says either the connection was reset or it says the action failed any help would be great full

[luder]

I have the PTV bootable disk installed zipper made sure everything is exactlly how it should in your website besides instantcake.iso and made a bootable disk had everything setup


hdd cdrom
hda original tivo drive

after probing it shows

ideo at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14
ideo at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15

then it hangs
keybord is disabled and all

I also have a question can zipper work with MFSlive drives?
or do i have to use ptv work of art?

[Xtra7973]

I will try to help you out as much as I can.

Hey guys i'm pretty intrested in doing more for my dvr and intrested in some reviews before Zippering..
How is the Zipper latelly .. is it stable?
Do i need PTV boot cd to run this?
can i download zipper straight out and load it to the dvr?
How well does zipper handle with other mods?

The zipper is stable. As I matter of fact I have two HDVR2's one using the zipper and one with all the hacks on it the old fashioned way both running for the same amount of time. I am redoing the one that didnt have the zipper on it now as the drive died.

If your drive is already hacked you can head over to this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680) page and just FTP it over to your tivo and run it from there. What other mods do you have?

I have the PTV bootable disk installed zipper made sure everything is exactlly how it should in your website besides instantcake.iso and made a bootable disk had everything setup


hdd cdrom
hda original tivo drive

after probing it shows

ideo at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14
ideo at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15

then it hangs
keybord is disabled and all

I also have a question can zipper work with MFSlive drives?
or do i have to use ptv work of art?

I had a problem with my wireless keyboard and a usb keyboard they both didnt work. I had to go dig an old one out (ps/2) of the dungeon for it to work. I just made a new drive using MFSlive and put the zipper on it so thats not a problem.

[ttodd1]

is there anyway i can update tivowebpluse every time i try to update it through the web site it says either the connection was reset or it says the action failed any help would be great full


Not a Zipper question.....

[stevecon]

Try manually FTPing the rbautch tar file, then run the script and choose NO when asked if you want to run express mode. See if that works. It did for me when I had a similar problem.

I'll have to try that - thanks.

[stevecon]

Your going to have to wait until rbautch fixes his site. If you go here (http://www.mastersav.com/Tivo_Zipper/zipper.zip) and download the latest zipper zip file (sounds funny) and try to extract it you will notice there are a couple files that are corrupt. So just hold off until it's fixed.

I went there and downloaded the file. I was able to use WINRAR 3.60 and not only test the file - but extract the files - and the archives within it. I know that there have been compatibility issues cropping up between some compressors (winzip winrar etc) Try again with Winrar 3.60, see if the errors go away for you.

[Xtra7973]

I went there and downloaded the file. I was able to use WINRAR 3.60 and not only test the file - but extract the files - and the archives within it. I know that there have been compatibility issues cropping up between some compressors (winzip winrar etc) Try again with Winrar 3.60, see if the errors go away for you.

Yes it's because he fixed it now. This is what he said to me in another thread.
It's fixed now. I tried to upload a new version of the enhancement script earlier today and it kept getting corrupted during the FTP transfer. Seems to be working now.
Thank you for looking out for me though :)

[trebu2002]

Will zipper work on an already hacked DTIVO running 6.2 with networking NOT working? I don't plan on updating the image, just going through all of the other steps to make sure the drive is up-to-date and to enable networking.

Anything to watch out for or steps I MUST skip?

Thanks!

[luder]

I will try to help you out as much as I can.



The zipper is stable. As I matter of fact I have two HDVR2's one using the zipper and one with all the hacks on it the old fashioned way both running for the same amount of time. I am redoing the one that didnt have the zipper on it now as the drive died.

If your drive is already hacked you can head over to this (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680) page and just FTP it over to your tivo and run it from there. What other mods do you have?



I had a problem with my wireless keyboard and a usb keyboard they both didnt work. I had to go dig an old one out (ps/2) of the dungeon for it to work. I just made a new drive using MFSlive and put the zipper on it so thats not a problem.

Yeah i got the message from spike2k5 then yours this moring about MFSLive drives with zipper. And your right it does work fine as long as i don't re-format the drive. So far i have only done the drive clone with MSLive. I'm currently using PS/2 keyboard and mouse it's just after the error code i wrote yesterday night it doesnt give me a prompt to enter any strings .. I've been thru so much with Drive to drive copy that I was hoping that the zipper would be easy a piece of cake but, after 2 zipper cd with restless night i'm am burned out..

I used Windows xp extraction to unzip the zip file
followed gunny's website even changed the name for mrv file and added LBA48 Boot CD .iso with enhancements into zipper_tools folder the .iso maker did verify the image with out instantcake and made a new iso for me with no problem and made a new .iso to burn.. Is LBA48 from ptv a new version anyone having problems with 4.04? because there is seriously something wrong .. This is what i have seen the cd boots I press enter then it probes my drive (hdc,etc) then pauses with the irq info with no prompt it hangs for a while so i figure i restart the boot cd. So I do ctrl+alt+del or kill term and nothing I check my number lock key and it does not respond.. So i ended up shutting it off from the swtich.. and that's all i know.. I don't understand what rahback fixed it sounds like the add on for Zipper .. I'm having a bad disk day.. :mad:

help would be great Xtra7973

[ttodd1]

Will zipper work on an already hacked DTIVO running 6.2 with networking NOT working? I don't plan on updating the image, just going through all of the other steps to make sure the drive is up-to-date and to enable networking.

Anything to watch out for or steps I MUST skip?

Thanks!

When you say hacked just what do you mean? If you mean the putting a bigger hard drive in, then yes (that is not really hacked).

[trebu2002]

When you say hacked just what do you mean? If you mean the putting a bigger hard drive in, then yes (that is not really hacked).

Hacked means upgrading the drive, moving to 6.2, installing TivoWeb, superpatch, set_mrv, enabling networking (which now doesn't work), etc. Mostly following the instructions on DDB and other sites.

[JWThiers]

Hacked means upgrading the drive, moving to 6.2, installing TivoWeb, superpatch, set_mrv, enabling networking (which now doesn't work), etc. Mostly following the instructions on DDB and other sites.
Zipper does 2 things.


It hacks your dtivo to enable the things you already have.
Runs an enhancement script to install some common hacks (TWP, NCID, CRON, etc).


You do not need zipper if your dtivo is already hacked. You just need the enhancement script, look here. (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680)

[stevecon]

Yes it's because he fixed it now. This is what he said to me in another thread.

Thank you for looking out for me though :)

Yes, it is fixed. I ran it all from the BASH prompt (not ftp'ed from PC to TiVO) - uninstall, tweak, it downloaded and ran without a problem.

All is well.

[kimsan]

I believe if you read the NOTE on the Zipper site it says to zipper OS ver 3.1.5f then slice upgrade to 6.3a. I dont have an hr10 so I don't keep up that closely you could also I assume anyway go to 6.3b in a similar fashion. I would check the Upgrading your hacked hr10-250 to 6.3a thread for the current stat of affairs. Also I read somewhere that the latest zipper has some corrupt files that may or may not be an actual issue as well.

Chalk it up to a combo of causes. My IC image had 6.3 not 6.3a, Zipper 2.5 had issues and it's n HR10-250.

This a.m. I fired up a fresh Zipper 2.6 disk (burnt track-at-once as disc-at-once failed), imaged and immediately ran the Zipper (now binary, not script). Got a copy error on the rbautch archive but drove on. Once up, copied the rbautch archive over and ran tweak express with nary a problem. Then reran tweak just to get all the goodies re-tweakers get :)

Hackman 4.2.8 is working fine as is Web Remote (handy for setting the bedroom TiVo to blank channels while playing. The usual range of EXTRa attrACTion hacks are all fine.

On to gotomydvr and 6.3a this evening, then add63 and hope for 6.3b slices.

Thanks for your input. A clear head and a fresh Zipper/IC didn't hurt either ;)

[willardcpa]

....PITA tonight! :eek:
Well, its the next morning. Was kim referring to
A. Eating one of those fancy sandwiches made with the "flat" bread?
B. His troubles trying to hack his 10-250? orrrr
C. Going to one of those bars where all the guys wear leather chaps??? :eek: :p

[RobD]

Next I'll take these two questionable CDs into work and try them on the P3 computer with the 40GB drive to see if they fail there.

Brought the first two CDs I burned at home in to work, and they fail on the P3 computer as well (read/write error and the end of archive error). The one I burned here at work using the same source files worked fine. I think it is just a failing burner that is causing these problems.

And now I see Zipper 2.6 is out, so I'm burning a new copy (on my work burner) so I can do some drive upgrades over Christmas to my units.

[JWThiers]

Hackman 4.2.8 is working fine as is Web Remote
Web remote works? I thought there were problems with the sendkey function in directivo's?

I guess I'll have to sum vestigatin'

[luder]

Chalk it up to a combo of causes. My IC image had 6.3 not 6.3a, Zipper 2.5 had issues and it's n HR10-250.

This a.m. I fired up a fresh Zipper 2.6 disk (burnt track-at-once as disc-at-once failed), imaged and immediately ran the Zipper (now binary, not script). Got a copy error on the rbautch archive but drove on. Once up, copied the rbautch archive over and ran tweak express with nary a problem. Then reran tweak just to get all the goodies re-tweakers get :)

Hackman 4.2.8 is working fine as is Web Remote (handy for setting the bedroom TiVo to blank channels while playing. The usual range of EXTRa attrACTion hacks are all fine.

On to gotomydvr and 6.3a this evening, then add63 and hope for 6.3b slices.

Thanks for your input. A clear head and a fresh Zipper/IC didn't hurt either ;)


What kind of program you guys use .. I use Alcohol 120% it's 30 day freeware but, it does a great job in iso.. It's also great for nocd hack for any pc games it saved my tired drive

[luder]

Yes, it is fixed. I ran it all from the BASH prompt (not ftp'ed from PC to TiVO) - uninstall, tweak, it downloaded and ran without a problem.

All is well.

your lucky i installed zipper 2.6 with the new PTV bootcd with enhance scripts and i don't even get a prompt

[Xtra7973]

What kind of program you guys use .. I use Alcohol 120% it's 30 day freeware but, it does a great job in iso.. It's also great for nocd hack for any pc games it saved my tired drive

I use imgburn its freeware and to be honest it works all the time everytime. You can google imgburn or just go here (http://www.imgburn.com/).

[kimsan]

:eek:
Well, its the next morning. Was kim referring to
A. Eating one of those fancy sandwiches made with the "flat" bread?
B. His troubles trying to hack his 10-250? orrrr
C. Going to one of those bars where all the guys wear leather chaps??? :eek: :p

While A. is indeed a tasty treat and C. is not my cup of meat,
B. is correct, though now complete :D

[kimsan]

What kind of program you guys use .. I use Alcohol 120% it's 30 day freeware but, it does a great job in iso.. It's also great for nocd hack for any pc games it saved my tired drive

Nero 7 here and typically Express vs Burning ROM mode.

This track-at-once vs disc-at-once only seems to affect the Zipper discs as I've never had problems with audio, data or video images of my own creation.

[kimsan]

Web remote works? I thought there were problems with the sendkey function in directivo's?

I guess I'll have to sum vestigatin'

No probs with HD. I've got no experience with hacking SD series 2.

I was quite surprised when I saw your comment in one of the other threads that Web Remote *didn't* work and thought I'd mention it here :)

[bnm81002]

I lost my telnet connection on 1 of my DTivo units, I have a connection with a serial cable but when I tried to install the enhancement scripts, I get an error stating to adjust DNS and try again, what can I do to resolve the situation so that I can download and install the enhancement scripts? thanks

[trebu2002]

Zipper does 2 things.


It hacks your dtivo to enable the things you already have.
Runs an enhancement script to install some common hacks (TWP, NCID, CRON, etc).


You do not need zipper if your dtivo is already hacked. You just need the enhancement script, look

Thanks all up-to-date and networked. Now to get a wireless adapter that works and what next... ? :)

[sk33t3r]

I lost my telnet connection on 1 of my DTivo units, I have a connection with a serial cable but when I tried to install the enhancement scripts, I get an error stating to adjust DNS and try again, what can I do to resolve the situation so that I can download and install the enhancement scripts? thanks


Since you cany telnet, your tivo will not be able to connect online to get teh latest script, so you could download it to your pc and transfer it over via teraterm serial port to the tivo.

If you have your network up on the tivo then you may need to edit resolv.conf with your dns settings from your isp.

[bnm81002]

Since you cany telnet, your tivo will not be able to connect online to get teh latest script, so you could download it to your pc and transfer it over via teraterm serial port to the tivo.

If you have your network up on the tivo then you may need to edit resolv.conf with your dns settings from your isp.



ok I have a bash prompt through HyperTerminal, how do I transfer the scripts over to my unit that way? would I have to transfer it through teraterm only? thanks

[Da Goon]

ok I have a bash prompt through HyperTerminal, how do I transfer the scripts over to my unit that way? would I have to transfer it through teraterm only? thanks

cd / to the directory you want to move the file to. Click on transfer at the top of hyperterminal, then click send file. Select the file you want to send and hyperterm will send it to the directory you moved to. Of course, make sure you mount read/write permissions first.

[peteyg]

With a hacked series 2 DTivo using the zipper hack, what PC program allows you to extract recordings from your DTivo?

THANKS!

[sk33t3r]

With a hacked series 2 DTivo using the zipper hack, what PC program allows you to extract recordings from your DTivo?

THANKS!

TyTool will allow you to extract and convert them to mpeg. But i dont think extraction is to be discussed on this site. You can also use tytool to edit out the commercials, its not that hard once you learn how to do it. I normally stream them with vserver from the tivo to a pc.

[sk33t3r]

ok I have a bash prompt through HyperTerminal, how do I transfer the scripts over to my unit that way? would I have to transfer it through teraterm only? thanks

Make sure you transfer by zmodem, tera term is free, http://www.jeanandrick.com/tivofiles/ttermp23.zip

Tera Term works via tcp or serial.

[wood019]

When I run my install from the zipper disk everything goes fine until i get the following step.

COPYING HACKS TO TIVO DRIVE...

then I get the following message

CP: READ ERROR: INPUT/OUTPUT ERROR

The installation continues as normal and everything seems fine when I install the drive into the tivo, but my networking isn't working. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong. I followed the directions to the letter. . Your help is much appreciated

[JWThiers]

I lost my telnet connection on 1 of my DTivo units, I have a connection with a serial cable but when I tried to install the enhancement scripts, I get an error stating to adjust DNS and try again, what can I do to resolve the situation so that I can download and install the enhancement scripts? thanks
Try the wiki here (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Network_adapter_not_working_-_Lights_are_on_but_no_ones_home) and here (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Update_the_enhancment_script _.28tweak.sh.29_failed) .

[JWThiers]

When I run my install from the zipper disk everything goes fine until i get the following step.

COPYING HACKS TO TIVO DRIVE...

then I get the following message

CP: READ ERROR: INPUT/OUTPUT ERROR

The installation continues as normal and everything seems fine when I install the drive into the tivo, but my networking isn't working. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong. I followed the directions to the letter. . Your help is much appreciated
More info would be nice, what hardware, software version, previous hacks (if any) any other hacks installed.

[rbautch]

When I run my install from the zipper disk everything goes fine until i get the following step.

COPYING HACKS TO TIVO DRIVE...

then I get the following message

CP: READ ERROR: INPUT/OUTPUT ERROR

The installation continues as normal and everything seems fine when I install the drive into the tivo, but my networking isn't working. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong. I followed the directions to the letter. . Your help is much appreciatedDid you install a new image? This happened a few times to me, and I fixed it by running e2fsck. If you run it while the drive is in the tivo, make sure you mount the filesystem read-only first. You could also try running it while the drive is in your pc.

[wood019]

More info would be nice, what hardware, software version, previous hacks (if any) any other hacks installed.

sorry, it was late when I wrote this.

I am running an RCA DVR-40 with a new clean hard drive. I downloaded the Zipper and superpatch from the links on the Zipper page. I got the LBA 48 boot disk and instantcake from the DVRupgrade page.

Making the boot disk went without problem and the new drive works fine in the tivo, but my networking doesn't work. I don't know if this input/output error has anything to do with it or not. I am networking using a static IP from my linksys router and a usb200m. When I run AngryIP i get no response from my static IP set for my tivo 192.168.1.109.

This is my first tivo mod, but I have done several xboxes and I have never had difficulty setting static IP like this before so that leads me to believe that I am having a configuration or a software problem. Any help would be appreciated.

[wood019]

Did you install a new image? This happened a few times to me, and I fixed it by running e2fsck. If you run it while the drive is in the tivo, make sure you mount the filesystem read-only first. You could also try running it while the drive is in your pc.


yes this is a new image on a new drive. I even tried to reinstall after it didn't work the first time as I thought I may have done something wrong. Still wound up with the same result.

[JWThiers]

sorry, it was late when I wrote this.

I am running an RCA DVR-40 with a new clean hard drive. I downloaded the Zipper and superpatch from the links on the Zipper page. I got the LBA 48 boot disk and instantcake from the DVRupgrade page.

Making the boot disk went without problem and the new drive works fine in the tivo, but my networking doesn't work. I don't know if this input/output error has anything to do with it or not. I am networking using a static IP from my linksys router and a usb200m. When I run AngryIP i get no response from my static IP set for my tivo 192.168.1.109.

This is my first tivo mod, but I have done several xboxes and I have never had difficulty setting static IP like this before so that leads me to believe that I am having a configuration or a software problem. Any help would be appreciated.
A quick question were you able to telnet in and run the tweak.sh script initially or were you unable to do even that? If you couldn't even do that you have no options that don't involve pulling the drive again. If you were never able to telnet the first time you could try what rbautch suggested by mounting the drive and running the command he noted or you could just rezipper. I would probably do the later and use a clean image, you loose anything that is already recorded, but you get back to a know state which greatly simplifies the process.

If you did initially telnet but can't now, use a serial cable and follow the suggestions on the wiki troubleshooting page here. (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Network_adapter_not_working_-_Lights_are_on_but_no_ones_home)

Unfortunately, unless you have a serial cable you have very limited options. None of which lets you leave the drive in the tivo. You could put off fixing and buy a serial cable see the wiki again 1 post above the previous one here (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Serial_Cable.2C_the_best_pie ce_of_insurance_to_have) or you can make your own (do a search for it) Or if you have to have it now, pull the drive and use the boot cd you got to make the zipper cd, mount the drive and use the instructions previously stated as if you were using a serial cable. Or you could again rezipper. If you have been keeping your previously recorded content you might have to face up to losing it to hack. While zipper usually does the keep previous recordings fine sometimes (very rarely) it doesn't seem to work.

[JWThiers]

yes this is a new image on a new drive. I even tried to reinstall after it didn't work the first time as I thought I may have done something wrong. Still wound up with the same result.
Just saw this, new image on new drive, that makes it more interesting. And you are sure you got the correct boot cd iso and a good image?

[JWThiers]

Do you have any lights on your usb200m?

[wood019]

Do you have any lights on your usb200m?

Yes I have lights on my usb200m. I already did a clean rezipper and I wound up with the same error on 3 different occasions. I have a serial cable on order but it won't be here until sometime late next week due to the christmas holiday. I could probably wait until I get it before I start tearing into things again. I never was able to telnet into my tivo and the ip address doesn't even show up. I tried to set my tivo up both with my router having DHCP enabled and giving my tivo a static IP and with my router and tivo both using a static IP. Problem with that is when I reset my router, the IP that ISP gave me was not the same as it was when I set it up. (I thought that was the point of the word STATIC). Anyway, I set my router back to Dynamic and kept my Tivo with a Static IP address of 192.168.1.109 and it didn't work for me. I have a hacked xbox that works fine like that and it too is based on linux so it should work the same theoretically. Having lights on my usb200m tells me however that there's activity there, but I don't know if it had power there or not before I did the upgrade. I never plugged anything in previous to doing this mod.

[JWThiers]

Yes I have lights on my usb200m. I already did a clean rezipper and I wound up with the same error on 3 different occasions. I have a serial cable on order but it won't be here until sometime late next week due to the christmas holiday. I could probably wait until I get it before I start tearing into things again. I never was able to telnet into my tivo and the ip address doesn't even show up. I tried to set my tivo up both with my router having DHCP enabled and giving my tivo a static IP and with my router and tivo both using a static IP. Problem with that is when I reset my router, the IP that ISP gave me was not the same as it was when I set it up. (I thought that was the point of the word STATIC). Anyway, I set my router back to Dynamic and kept my Tivo with a Static IP address of 192.168.1.109 and it didn't work for me. I have a hacked xbox that works fine like that and it too is based on linux so it should work the same theoretically. Having lights on my usb200m tells me however that there's activity there, but I don't know if it had power there or not before I did the upgrade. I never plugged anything in previous to doing this mod.
If you have lights but no connectivity, it is probably some type of network conflict. Make sure that the range that the router uses for DHCP does not include the static address for you tivo. verify your router is on the same subnet. 192.168.1.xxx as you what you assigned the tivo. aside from waiting for the serial cable to do what rbautch suggested I'm at a loss. You could have fat fingered the IP adress but 3 times probably not.

[RobD]

Did you install a new image? This happened a few times to me, and I fixed it by running e2fsck. If you run it while the drive is in the tivo, make sure you mount the filesystem read-only first. You could also try running it while the drive is in your pc.

This is the same problem I had doing my HDVR2 and posted several times about it in the last couple of days in this thread. New drive (40GB, 250GB, 400GB), fresh download of the zipper and all the items listed in the how-to. I thought it was my burner in my laptop using Nero 7, but images made with Sonic on my wife's laptop and Nero 6 on my office computer worked fine. But now I wonder if it isn't hardware but the burning software?

The read/write error happens when copying the hacks (specifically the rbautch file). Then after doing the IP stuff, an unexpected end of file message will show up when doing the USB drivers.

The only issue I get now doing a new install is an error when running tweak.sh that says something about "/enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh" doesn't exist.

[rbautch]

Yes I have lights on my usb200m. I already did a clean rezipper and I wound up with the same error on 3 different occasions. I have a serial cable on order but it won't be here until sometime late next week due to the christmas holiday. I could probably wait until I get it before I start tearing into things again. I never was able to telnet into my tivo and the ip address doesn't even show up. I tried to set my tivo up both with my router having DHCP enabled and giving my tivo a static IP and with my router and tivo both using a static IP. Problem with that is when I reset my router, the IP that ISP gave me was not the same as it was when I set it up. (I thought that was the point of the word STATIC). Anyway, I set my router back to Dynamic and kept my Tivo with a Static IP address of 192.168.1.109 and it didn't work for me. I have a hacked xbox that works fine like that and it too is based on linux so it should work the same theoretically. Having lights on my usb200m tells me however that there's activity there, but I don't know if it had power there or not before I did the upgrade. I never plugged anything in previous to doing this mod.After the image gets installed, exit the script with cntrl-c. Then reboot your PC, and run the Zipper again saying no to the image install.

[luder]

This is the same problem I had doing my HDVR2 and posted several times about it in the last couple of days in this thread. New drive (40GB, 250GB, 400GB), fresh download of the zipper and all the items listed in the how-to. I thought it was my burner in my laptop using Nero 7, but images made with Sonic on my wife's laptop and Nero 6 on my office computer worked fine. But now I wonder if it isn't hardware but the burning software?

The read/write error happens when copying the hacks (specifically the rbautch file). Then after doing the IP stuff, an unexpected end of file message will show up when doing the USB drivers.

The only issue I get now doing a new install is an error when running tweak.sh that says something about "/enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh" doesn't exist.


Nero 7 is a pretty good program to burn with did you use the disc at once feature?

I have the trail version and i hate it after burning 5 images it now makes images to the hardrive :down: :down: ..

if your not sure what to use try useing this ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) Xtra7973 recommend this for me I gave it try and it seems like it's easy to use just click a button and watch them fly i give :up: :up: :up: for this program.. if your burning the new zipper 2.6 let me know if it boots up fine ..

[luder]

I just want to know if people are having problems with 2.6 for Series 2 Direct Tivos using boot cd.. My unit is fresh and it ain't going no ware with the boot cd

[SteelersFan]

I am having trouble with my cron. It's running everything except the reboots. I edited that portion before but can't see anything wrong with it.
15 9 * * * /enhancements/TWPrun.sh; echo "`date` TWP started">> /var/log/cronlo

# Wipe the logs every Sunday night at 3:18am cst
18 9 * * 1 /busybox/wipelogs; echo "`date` logs wiped" >> /var/log/cronlog-main

# Run fakecall every night at 10:20pm pst
20 6 * * * tivosh /busybox/fakecall.tcl

# Delete the crond log files every 3 months
22 9 1 */3 * rm /var/log/cronlog-main; echo "`date` cron logs wiped">> /var/log

# Delete cron.test.out every night at 3:24am cst
22 9 * * * rm /var/log/cron.test.out; echo "`date` cron.test.out deleted" >> /v

# Weekly reboots. Cleans things out for better performance if you have several
# Also restarts logs, and allows fakecall to reset the last successful call ind
# so your Tivo won't call home (fakecall doesn't update mfs entries without a r
# This allows you to keep your phone line connected for callerID and PPV orderi
# Run safereboot, so reboot only happens when nothing is recording
25 11 * * 4,7 echo "`date` SCHEDULED REBOOT"; tivosh /enhancements/safereboot.t

# Display 0n-screen warning messages before scheduled reboots
5 11 * * 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 20 MINUTES...' | /var/
15 11 * * 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 10 MINUTES...' | /var
Also, I'm seeing this from/var/log/messages:Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 echo "`date` SCHEDULED REBOOT"; tivosh /enhancements/safereboot.tcl >> /var/log/cronlog-main
Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 20 MINUTES...' | /var/hack/bin/out2osd -c1 -fblack1 -byellow -d3
Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 10 MINUTES...' | /var/hack/bin/out2osd -c1 -fblack1 -byellow -d Also, do you have to reboot the Tivo for any edits to take effect?

[kimsan]

Nero 7 is a pretty good program to burn with did you use the disc at once feature?

I have the trail version and i hate it after burning 5 images it now makes images to the hardrive :down: :down: ..

if your not sure what to use try useing this ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) Xtra7973 recommend this for me I gave it try and it seems like it's easy to use just click a button and watch them fly i give :up: :up: :up: for this program.. if your burning the new zipper 2.6 let me know if it boots up fine ..

Just did a compare. Indeed the rbauth archive is busted with a nero burn but fine with imgburn. Nice to know.

As a bonus whoopsie, the superpatch.tcl file is generated as a .tc file so it will screw up on install as well.

NB: this happens in the iso generation, not the burn.

Russ, Gunny? Time for 2.7 to fix it?

[luder]

Just did a compare. Indeed the rbauth archive is busted with a nero burn but fine with imgburn. Nice to know.

As a bonus whoopsie, the superpatch.tcl file is generated as a .tc file so it will screw up on install as well.

NB: this happens in the iso generation, not the burn.

Russ, Gunny? Time for 2.7 to fix it?

I checked out the .iso file that zipper 2.6 created and
superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.2.tcl it looks to me it's still a tcl file but, i don't remember if i made the iso in acid or the imgburn

So i'm going to burn it again but before i do i would like to verify what's inside the iso before i burn it...

.Live--> bin--> no files

.menu -->startup

isolinux
boot.cat, f1.txt, f2.txt, f3.txt , f4.txt, f4.txt, f5.txt, f6.txt, f6.txt, f8.txt, intrd.img, isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, message.txt, vmlinuz

s2_kernels

3.1.5--> vmlinux.px.gz

7.2.2 oth-K1--> vmlinux.px.gz

is this how it should be in the .iso for zipper 2.6

[rbautch]

Also, do you have to reboot the Tivo for any edits to take effect?No. Just kill crond and then restart it.

[SteelersFan]

No. Just kill crond and then restart it.
Thanks. Here's the line from my processes:322 root 760 S /busybox/crond Do I just sumit this command to kill it? kill 322 Then restart it with:crond

[luder]

i burned the Zipper 2.6 for my Dtivo 6.2 and it's still a no go on the boot same thing i posted earlier

Anyone having problems with Dtivo Dvr 80 ver 6.2 with Zipper 2.6?

[luder]

Anyone have Tivo_tools .iso I have PTV bootable cd

with some instructions to load PTV bootable then the tivo.iso would be great
p.m me thanks

Oh, I asked someone if xp service pack 1 would make a differance and the answer i got is the cd boots into linux..

And no i didnt load the drive in xp i made sure bios/cmos prevented the load into xp i just want to see if this true? b/c i don't know what else would not load the zipper 2.6 cd..

[SteelersFan]

I am having trouble with my cron. It's running everything except the reboots. I edited that portion before but can't see anything wrong with it.
15 9 * * * /enhancements/TWPrun.sh; echo "`date` TWP started">> /var/log/cronlo

# Wipe the logs every Sunday night at 3:18am cst
18 9 * * 1 /busybox/wipelogs; echo "`date` logs wiped" >> /var/log/cronlog-main

# Run fakecall every night at 10:20pm pst
20 6 * * * tivosh /busybox/fakecall.tcl

# Delete the crond log files every 3 months
22 9 1 */3 * rm /var/log/cronlog-main; echo "`date` cron logs wiped">> /var/log

# Delete cron.test.out every night at 3:24am cst
22 9 * * * rm /var/log/cron.test.out; echo "`date` cron.test.out deleted" >> /v

# Weekly reboots. Cleans things out for better performance if you have several
# Also restarts logs, and allows fakecall to reset the last successful call ind
# so your Tivo won't call home (fakecall doesn't update mfs entries without a r
# This allows you to keep your phone line connected for callerID and PPV orderi
# Run safereboot, so reboot only happens when nothing is recording
25 11 * * 4,7 echo "`date` SCHEDULED REBOOT"; tivosh /enhancements/safereboot.t

# Display 0n-screen warning messages before scheduled reboots
5 11 * * 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 20 MINUTES...' | /var/
15 11 * * 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 10 MINUTES...' | /var
Also, I'm seeing this from/var/log/messages:Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 echo "`date` SCHEDULED REBOOT"; tivosh /enhancements/safereboot.tcl >> /var/log/cronlog-main
Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 20 MINUTES...' | /var/hack/bin/out2osd -c1 -fblack1 -byellow -d3
Dec 21 20:16:02 (none) crond[319]: failed user root parsing 4,7 cd /var/hack/bin; echo 'SCHEDULED REBOOT IN 10 MINUTES...' | /var/hack/bin/out2osd -c1 -fblack1 -byellow -d Also, do you have to reboot the Tivo for any edits to take effect?
It looks like cron doesn't like the 4,7 for the days of the week. I chnged it back to 1,4 and the error messages went away.

[SteelersFan]

This all works:Thanks. Here's the line from my processes:322 root 760 S /busybox/crond Do I just sumit this command to kill it? kill 322 Then restart it with:crondFor restarting crond I used this instead: /busybox/crond

[kevddawg]

My HR10-250 fails to download "latest Enhancement script".

Late last night I went through the process of building a new drive for my Tivo, following the instructions on the Zipper web site to the letter. Everything was going great for a while. I installed the new drive in my Tivo, booted, and was able to connect to it with telnet. On Step 4D (Run the Enhancement Script), I entered the command "/hacks/tweak.sh" and get "wget: error while loading shared libraries:". It asks me if I want to "Adjust DNS and try again?". Neither answer seems to help. Note that I definitely have internet connectivity from the Tivo -- I can ping both my cable router's IP address (192.168.1.1), and my high speed internet provider's DNS server (68.87.77.130). (Everything is shown below.)

If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it greatly!! :)

bash-2.02# /hacks/tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file:
No such file or directory
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02# /hacks/tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file:
No such file or directory
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

bash-2.02# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=8.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.9 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 2.9/4.6/8.0 ms

bash-2.02# ping 68.87.77.130
PING 68.87.77.130 (68.87.77.130): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=39.1 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=18.5 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=15.8 ms

--- 68.87.77.130 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 15.8/22.6/39.1 ms
bash-2.02#

[WhyMe]

On some of my older units I was going to re-tweak to get the updated programs and such. When I do the uninstall and tweak it doesnt say anything about checking for lastest enhancements and just reinstalls. 2 of my units are on TWP 1.2 and one on 1.3....Any ideas Thanks

[luder]

Guy i just figure it out it's not the zipper 2.6 it's the PTV boot cd that's not going to prompt what do i do here??

[sk33t3r]

My HR10-250 fails to download "latest Enhancement script".

Late last night I went through the process of building a new drive for my Tivo, following the instructions on the Zipper web site to the letter. Everything was going great for a while. I installed the new drive in my Tivo, booted, and was able to connect to it with telnet. On Step 4D (Run the Enhancement Script), I entered the command "/hacks/tweak.sh" and get "wget: error while loading shared libraries:". It asks me if I want to "Adjust DNS and try again?". Neither answer seems to help. Note that I definitely have internet connectivity from the Tivo -- I can ping both my cable router's IP address (192.168.1.1), and my high speed internet provider's DNS server (68.87.77.130). (Everything is shown below.)

If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it greatly!! :)

bash-2.02# /hacks/tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file:
No such file or directory
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02# /hacks/tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file:
No such file or directory
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

bash-2.02# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=8.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.9 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 2.9/4.6/8.0 ms

bash-2.02# ping 68.87.77.130
PING 68.87.77.130 (68.87.77.130): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=39.1 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=18.5 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from 68.87.77.130: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=15.8 ms

--- 68.87.77.130 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 15.8/22.6/39.1 ms
bash-2.02#

Just download it to your pc and transfer it ftp or through teraterm serial port

[rbautch]

My HR10-250 fails to download "latest Enhancement script".

Late last night I went through the process of building a new drive for my Tivo, following the instructions on the Zipper web site to the letter. Everything was going great for a while. I installed the new drive in my Tivo, booted, and was able to connect to it with telnet. On Step 4D (Run the Enhancement Script), I entered the command "/hacks/tweak.sh" and get "wget: error while loading shared libraries:". This (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4548163&&#post4548163) will fix it. For future reference, whenever I get an unidentified error, searching on that error usually reveals a solution.

[rbautch]

On some of my older units I was going to re-tweak to get the updated programs and such. When I do the uninstall and tweak it doesnt say anything about checking for lastest enhancements and just reinstalls. 2 of my units are on TWP 1.2 and one on 1.3....Any ideas ThanksTry replacing tweak.sh with the version that's in the first post of this thread.

[vMAC]

Guy i just figure it out it's not the zipper 2.6 it's the PTV boot cd that's not going to prompt what do i do here??

Are you trying to use a USB keyboard?

[luder]

I finally got ptv boot cd and zipper it was caused by my sata drive in the pc... but, in the zipper it's asking for a 3 digits of a service number ??

does anyone know what it is

[rpdre1]

The service number is in the back of your Tivo.

The first three digits of a service number for a Hughes SD-DVR80 (which is in your sig) are 351.

[Neoistheone2000]

i was playing around in tivo web pluse and i seen an option for DHCP so me thinking that all i had to do was seach the DHCP client table in my router and get the ip address enabled it now i cant get in to my tivowebpluse i have to use a serial cable now if someone can help me disable DHCP through the bash command line i would be great full..

do i have to reinstall the zipper to fix this?

[kimsan]

Gunny and Russ,

The latest busybox archive 10-Nov-06 is missing 51killer.tcl.

[peteyg]

Anyone out there using a zipped Dtivo & using a Mac?
Are you using Tivotool?

Seems like I needed to do a lot more hacking to work with tivotool.....
ie. nearly all my recordings are still encrypted

HELP!

[rbautch]

Gunny and Russ,

The latest busybox archive 10-Nov-06 is missing 51killer.tcl.I know. The busybox that accompanies the Zipper is the one shown in my signature, and released under the terms I listed. Alphawolf copyrighted his busybox release, including 51killer. If you run the Zipper and tweak.sh according to directions, you should never have a need for it. If you do, you'll have to download it yourself.

[rbautch]

i was playing around in tivo web pluse and i seen an option for DHCP so me thinking that all i had to do was seach the DHCP client table in my router and get the ip address enabled it now i cant get in to my tivowebpluse i have to use a serial cable now if someone can help me disable DHCP through the bash command line i would be great full..

do i have to reinstall the zipper to fix this?Try running the /enhancements/net-launch.sh script. If you don't have it, run the enhancement script in my sig to get it and other hacks.

[JWThiers]

i was playing around in tivo web pluse and i seen an option for DHCP so me thinking that all i had to do was seach the DHCP client table in my router and get the ip address enabled it now i cant get in to my tivowebpluse i have to use a serial cable now if someone can help me disable DHCP through the bash command line i would be great full..

do i have to reinstall the zipper to fix this?
That will teach ya not to use DHCP for more info see my sig. Rbautch suggestion works the wiki has more info.

[kimsan]

I know. The busybox that accompanies the Zipper is the one shown in my signature, and released under the terms I listed. Alphawolf copyrighted his busybox release, including 51killer. If you run the Zipper and tweak.sh according to directions, you should never have a need for it. If you do, you'll have to download it yourself.

Trying again. Yesterdays results yielded a 6.3a box with an error 51 and 32. 32 tells me it has problems when trying to find programs to record.

Also noted when viewing the Now Playing List, I could only play or delete. no program info showed up if I selected, just the titles. Prolly a symptom of #32.

Trying again from scratch, reading the instructions as I go along.

[cr33p]

Quick question to anyone who may be able to help. I recently zippered 3 dsr 704 machines, one of my machines is experiancing an issue with not accepting local channels. Yes the other Tivos in the house are recieving local channels, so I believe it should not be a problem with the dish itself or service to the house. On this machine all other channels come in perfectly. The error on the screen tells me to call D*. Has anyone experianced this problem before? Is this because the Tivo does not dial out anymore? One thing that is different about this machine vs the others is that its a brand new hard drive with a brand new image. So its basically brand new LOL, Does that matter or have anything to do with it?


Any help would be greatly appreciated, many thanks to all the help I have recieved in the past.

[Xtra7973]

Quick question to anyone who may be able to help. I recently zippered 3 dsr 704 machines, one of my machines is experiancing an issue with not accepting local channels. Yes the other Tivos in the house are recieving local channels, so I believe it should not be a problem with the dish itself or service to the house. On this machine all other channels come in perfectly. The error on the screen tells me to call D*. Has anyone experianced this problem before? Is this because the Tivo does not dial out anymore? One thing that is different about this machine vs the others is that its a brand new hard drive with a brand new image. So its basically brand new LOL, Does that matter or have anything to do with it?


Any help would be greatly appreciated, many thanks to all the help I have recieved in the past.
Call 800-directv and through the automated process punch in code 721 and it will reset your locals. If you have to speak to a person just tell them you did a clear and delete because your tivo was running slow and your locals are now gone. They will send a signal down from the mothership that will hit your box and open up your locals again.

[rbautch]

Trying again. Yesterdays results yielded a 6.3a box with an error 51 and 32. 32 tells me it has problems when trying to find programs to record.

Also noted when viewing the Now Playing List, I could only play or delete. no program info showed up if I selected, just the titles. Prolly a symptom of #32.

Trying again from scratch, reading the instructions as I go along.Even if you get the error, after running tweak.sh and rebooting, it should be gone. You also have to answer no when the zipper asks you if you have any existing recordings you want to keep. Actually, the question should be do you have any encrypted recordings you want to keep.

[goony]

It looks like cron doesn't like the 4,7 for the days of the week. I chnged it back to 1,4 and the error messages went away.Some Unix cron flavors count days-of-the-week as 0 thru 6 (7 would be invalid), others count them as 1 thru 7.

[SteelersFan]

Some Unix cron flavors count days-of-the-week as 0 thru 6 (7 would be invalid), others count them as 1 thru 7.
That's what I was thinking. I guess maybe AW's AIO instructions are incorrect?

[ForrestB]

Anyone out there using a zipped Dtivo & using a Mac?
Are you using Tivotool?

Seems like I needed to do a lot more hacking to work with tivotool.....
ie. nearly all my recordings are still encrypted

HELP!

Did your Tivo have any shows on it before you Zippered? Note the Zipper turns off encryption so all shows recorded after Zippering are not encrypted. However all old shows will remain encrypted.

We can't discuss that other program you mentioned here - however there is a support thread for it on DDB.

[Brillian1080p]

I'm using zipper 2.6 and downloading the latest scripts, software and iso's to create the universal iso. This includes an instantcake special edition that includes the 6.3a slices.

During running tweak.sh the script says "existing ptvnet installation found, do you want to overwrite it?

1. How should the tweak.sh script question be answered?
2. What exactly is overwritten?

Thank you

[sk33t3r]

I'm using zipper 2.6 and downloading the latest scripts, software and iso's to create the universal iso. This includes an instantcake special edition that includes the 6.3a slices.

During running tweak.sh the script says "existing ptvnet installation found, do you want to overwrite it?

1. How should the tweak.sh script question be answered?
2. What exactly is overwritten?

Thank you

Brian I left my ptvnet install as is, so when propmted do you want to over write, I said NO. Others may have entered yes. Maybe we should start a poll on that very topic

[PJO1966]

Post-zipper, I rebooted my TiVo and the IP address changed. I'm currently scanning with Angry IP to try to find the current IP address (I don't have the serial cable yet). It wasn't within the realm of my router IP address so I expanded the search. What will the host name come up as assuming Angry IP finds it?

[Neoistheone2000]

Try running the /enhancements/net-launch.sh script. If you don't have it, run the enhancement script in my sig to get it and other hacks.


well it seemed to have taken the ip addresses but i still cant get in tivowebpluse

ohh btw i tryed to reboot, same thing

tryed to ping and it says network is unreachable? but when i run net-status.tcl it shows that all addresses are set correctaly but i notested that WEP is enabled but my router is disabled???

[Neoistheone2000]

well it seemed to have taken the ip addresses but i still cant get in tivowebpluse

ohh btw i tryed to reboot, same thing

tryed to ping and it says network is unreachable? but when i run net-status.tcl it shows that all addresses are set correctaly but i notested that WEP is enabled but my router is disabled???


would setSSIDwep work?

[falstaffpac]

During running tweak.sh the script says "existing ptvnet installation found, do you want to overwrite it?"
This is a good question, I'll be happy to share my experience. I botched my HD-Tivo when upgrading 3.1.5f -> 6.3a and was caught in a reboot loop. So, I purchased IC SE and started from scratch.

I've IC'ed my drive twice, once by answering YES to this question, the second time by answering NO.

1) IC'ed the drive, ran zipper, ran tweak, answered YES to overwriting the PTVNET installation, and everything was good. I thought I would then be able to upgrade to 6.3a via slicer, as this is included with the IC SE edition. When I checked via TWP, the 6.3a slices were not present. So I did a bunch of reading and apparently I have to have PTVNET in addition to the slicer and IC. I concluded (rightly or wrongly) that since I overwrote the PTVNET settings, I could no longer have access to the 6.3a slices via PTVNET. So instead of actually waiting 12 hours for the Tivo to d/l the slices on its own, I decided to redo my setup.

<caveat> I IC'ed my drive again (3.1.5f) and decided to force a manual upgrade to 6.3a, which worked fine. I then planned to zipper, but on the zipper page it says I should: 3.1.5f -> zipper -> 6.3a So, we go back to the drawing board. </caveat>

2) IC'ed the drive, ran the zipper, ran tweak and answered NO to overwriting the PTVNET installation. Everything was good, network up and running at 3.1.5f I checked swsystem, 6.3a slices present, moving right along. Sliced 6.3a and rebooted. Now, network no worky. Serial bash no worky. (actually, I can log the entire boot output if I set my speed to 9600, but I'm unable to type any commands at bash, at any speed). Incidentally, the boot log shows several errors being generated.

So, I guess I'll IC again at some point and answer YES to overwriting PTVNET, wait for the 6.3a slices to download on their own then try to slice up to 6.3a and hope to retain network connection.

[peteyg]

Did your Tivo have any shows on it before you Zippered? Note the Zipper turns off encryption so all shows recorded after Zippering are not encrypted. However all old shows will remain encrypted.

We can't discuss that other program you mentioned here - however there is a support thread for it on DDB.

Thanks for a reply!

My DTivo had many recordings before being zippered.

And that's my only real concern right now- how I can unencrypt them?

[kimsan]

Even if you get the error, after running tweak.sh and rebooting, it should be gone. You also have to answer no when the zipper asks you if you have any existing recordings you want to keep. Actually, the question should be do you have any encrypted recordings you want to keep.

Russ,

Thanks for your patience with frustrated pigheaded me.

The #51 was a result of trying to go IC3.1.5f->Zipper->Slicer6.3a->tweak->tivoapp patch. Likely caused the #32 as well and the lack of info in NPL.

The variations of bad burns, busted files, Slicer hanging, and even an IDE cable header falling apart led me to try that (incorrect) approach. I know better now.

I RTFI as I went on the last run. IC3.1.5.f->Zipper->tweak->Slicer6.3a ran fine. I reran tweak and ended up with double entries in author, but that was an easy fix.

KEY NOTE FOR HR101-250 USERS:

Wait for it...






WAIT FOR IT!

That's it. Allow time for the box to reboot and finish each step. Take the dog for a walk, got to the store, have a nice adult beverage. There were *several* instances where the ethernet adapter lights were on, but the machine was not yet accessible. I went to bed assuming I'd be grabbing the serial cable this morning as the was NO net connectivity. This morning it was ready.

Patience, Grasshopper.

Now to wait for 6.3b slices again....sigh!

Couple final questions (and I'll be searching as well):

1. How do I get Web Remote back in TWP? Somehow I lost it.

2. Do I need to keep the /ptvupgrade dir in this brave new world?

3. Is it safe to go directly from hacked 3.1.5f ro 6.3b? That's sitting on my primary box.

Thanks and Merry Christmas (or whatever you personally intend to celebrate)!

[ForrestB]

Thanks for a reply!

My DTivo had many recordings before being zippered.

And that's my only real concern right now- how I can unencrypt them?

We can't discuss extraction here - it's forbidden. Suggest you check out the Zipper Wiki for more info

[sjmaye]

My Zippered HR10-250 has been running successfully since August. I recently got a nag message that there has not been a successful call home. I checked and it had been many days since it regestered a successul call.

Not knowing anything else to do to fix it, I rebooted the unit. After the unit came back up I checked the phone record and saw that it registered a good call at boot up.

I have checked it a few times since and it seems fakecall is not working, but everytime I reboot it registers a call. I telnet over to the HDTivo and initate fakecall.tcl and it says it was successful. If I type fakecall.osd I get an error.

Another issue that I have no clue if related is that my caller ID does not seem to be working.

And finally another issue was that I went to use tytool like I had been for a while and it just did not work anymore. After some troubleshooting I found that my tserver file was missing on the tivo where I had put it. Once I FTPd another copy over it worked fine. Where'd the original one go?

Summary

Works-
-telnet
-FTP

Does not work-
-caller id
-fakecall

Anyone have some troubleshooting steps? :confused:

[rbautch]

I'm using zipper 2.6 and downloading the latest scripts, software and iso's to create the universal iso. This includes an instantcake special edition that includes the 6.3a slices.

During running tweak.sh the script says "existing ptvnet installation found, do you want to overwrite it?

1. How should the tweak.sh script question be answered?
2. What exactly is overwritten?

Thank youIt deletes the PTVnet Tivowebplus installation entirely, replaces the author file, and deletes the the startup scripts in /init that PTVnet uses to set up networking. This is all done to eliminate conflicts. With the latest version of the enhancement script, I added support to restore PTVnet when you uninstall the enhancement script.

[rbautch]

This is a good question, I'll be happy to share my experience. I botched my HD-Tivo when upgrading 3.1.5f -> 6.3a and was caught in a reboot loop. So, I purchased IC SE and started from scratch.

I've IC'ed my drive twice, once by answering YES to this question, the second time by answering NO.

1) IC'ed the drive, ran zipper, ran tweak, answered YES to overwriting the PTVNET installation, and everything was good. I thought I would then be able to upgrade to 6.3a via slicer, as this is included with the IC SE edition. When I checked via TWP, the 6.3a slices were not present. So I did a bunch of reading and apparently I have to have PTVNET in addition to the slicer and IC. I concluded (rightly or wrongly) that since I overwrote the PTVNET settings, I could no longer have access to the 6.3a slices via PTVNET. So instead of actually waiting 12 hours for the Tivo to d/l the slices on its own, I decided to redo my setup.

<caveat> I IC'ed my drive again (3.1.5f) and decided to force a manual upgrade to 6.3a, which worked fine. I then planned to zipper, but on the zipper page it says I should: 3.1.5f -> zipper -> 6.3a So, we go back to the drawing board. </caveat>

2) IC'ed the drive, ran the zipper, ran tweak and answered NO to overwriting the PTVNET installation. Everything was good, network up and running at 3.1.5f I checked swsystem, 6.3a slices present, moving right along. Sliced 6.3a and rebooted. Now, network no worky. Serial bash no worky. (actually, I can log the entire boot output if I set my speed to 9600, but I'm unable to type any commands at bash, at any speed). Incidentally, the boot log shows several errors being generated.

So, I guess I'll IC again at some point and answer YES to overwriting PTVNET, wait for the 6.3a slices to download on their own then try to slice up to 6.3a and hope to retain network connection.PTVnet and Zipper are two DIFFERENT ways of enabling bash access on your tivo. If the Zipper is used, it should NOT ask you to overwrite PTVnet. That is, unless Instantcake creates or contains a PTVupgrade directory in the root filesystem. The question is only asked if that directory is found. Also PTVnet has nothing to do with getting slices.

[rbautch]

well it seemed to have taken the ip addresses but i still cant get in tivowebpluse

ohh btw i tryed to reboot, same thing

tryed to ping and it says network is unreachable? but when i run net-status.tcl it shows that all addresses are set correctaly but i notested that WEP is enabled but my router is disabled???If WEP is enabled on your tivo, you have to enable it on your router, and vice versa.

[ttodd1]

My Zippered HR10-250 has been running successfully since August. I recently got a nag message that there has not been a successful call home. I checked and it had been many days since it regestered a successul call.

Not knowing anything else to do to fix it, I rebooted the unit. After the unit came back up I checked the phone record and saw that it registered a good call at boot up.

I have checked it a few times since and it seems fakecall is not working, but everytime I reboot it registers a call. I telnet over to the HDTivo and initate fakecall.tcl and it says it was successful. If I type fakecall.osd I get an error.

Another issue that I have no clue if related is that my caller ID does not seem to be working.

And finally another issue was that I went to use tytool like I had been for a while and it just did not work anymore. After some troubleshooting I found that my tserver file was missing on the tivo where I had put it. Once I FTPd another copy over it worked fine. Where'd the original one go?

Summary

Works-
-telnet
-FTP

Does not work-
-caller id
-fakecall

Anyone have some troubleshooting steps? :confused:


If you had tserver in var then it may have gotten wiped.

Fakecall works but the unit has to do a reboot in order for it to register that the "call was successful". There should be a cron job that reboots the system once a week or so, seems it is not running anymore.

Caller id - don't use it but there have been other threads of people having issues with it - check them out.

[kevddawg]

That worked. Thanks!! I appear to be up and running!! BTW, I definitely do search before I post, but I'm finding it to be a bit of a needle in the haystack situation.

There is one thing I want to fix. When I first went through tweak.sh I said to remove Standby from the main menu -- now I regret that. I tried to put it back by running the uninstall script, then running tweak.sh again and telling the script not to remove Standby, but that didn't work -- Standby is still missing from my main menu.

Do you know how I can undo this little tweak?

Kevin

[kimsan]

Couple final questions (and I'll be searching as well):

1. How do I get Web Remote back in TWP? Somehow I lost it.

2. Do I need to keep the /ptvupgrade dir in this brave new world?

3. Is it safe to go directly from hacked 3.1.5f ro 6.3b? That's sitting on my primary box.

Lots of reading and searching it looks like:

1. Web Remote won't work with 6.x software.

2. Still not sure. Prolly only lose the toys Lou mentioned a few posts back if deleted.

3. Safe according to a DVR playground article.

4. Bonus question on error #32/busted NPL looks like it was a symptom of restoring SPs in TWP. What a drag if that stays broken!

Got my main 3.1.5f to call the mothership, so I now have a donor image source already at Zipper 2.6 tweak 4.6 level with both 6.3a and 6.3b slices ready. Time to pull an image and play on my spare drive.

[rbautch]

There should be a cron job that reboots the system once a week or so, seems it is not running anymore. I didn't remove it, so it still should be happening. Let me know if you discover why it's not.

[rbautch]

That worked. Thanks!! I appear to be up and running!! BTW, I definitely do search before I post, but I'm finding it to be a bit of a needle in the haystack situation.

There is one thing I want to fix. When I first went through tweak.sh I said to remove Standby from the main menu -- now I regret that. I tried to put it back by running the uninstall script, then running tweak.sh again and telling the script not to remove Standby, but that didn't work -- Standby is still missing from my main menu.

Do you know how I can undo this little tweak?

KevinRunning the uninstall script should put it back. Then skip the question entirely the next time you run it.

[cr33p]

Well as many of you, Im always so friggin busy I havent been able to follow up on this resolution. I tried JWThiers resolution and still receive the same error. My author file has the correct ip address for the tivo and the correct ip for the router.

Heres my output

Daves Tivo-bash# tivosh network.tcl 192.168.0.110 192.168.0.1
couldn't open "/enhancements/mfs_network": no such file or directory
while executing
"open /enhancements/mfs_network w"
("uplevel" body line 105)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {

set nconfig [db $db openidconstruction $goodfsid]

# Delete existing network settings, for testing...

dbobj $nconfig remove I..."
(file "network.tcl" line 53)
Daves Tivo-bash# mount -o remount,ro /
Daves Tivo-bash# cd /hacks
Daves Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: www.mastersav.com: Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory




That should work?. :confused:

I did have a similar thing happen to me and had to almost had to find a virgin to sacrifice to the tivo gods to fix but at the last minute did the following and it worked for me.

I am going to assume that joe doesn't work, so you have to use vi (joy). also your alias' don't work. so ...

First read up a bit on VI at this site here (http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html)

Next telnet into you tivo and enter the following commands:

cd /etc/rc.d
mount -o remount,rw /
vi rc.sysinit.author

That cd's to the /etc/rc.d directory
mounts in read/write mode
starts vi to edit your author file.

look for a line that starts
tivosh /hacks/network.tcl

make sure that the first ip is the ip of you tivo and the second ip is that of your router. If that line is NOT there exit without saving by typing ":q!" Thats "Colon q Exclamation point" and proceed to the next step.

If they are not, use your arrow keys to move to the beginning of the ip address'. Once the cursor is there press the "x" key to delete single characters until the incorrect part is gone. Next press the 'a' key to enter the insert mode and type in the corrections. when you are done with the corrections press the Esc (Escape) key to enter the command mode.

To exit WITHOUT changing the file type ":q!" Thats "Colon q Exclamation point"
To save changes and exit type ":wq"

You just edited your author file with vi.
Next at bash type
cd /hacks
tivosh network.tcl xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the tivo ip
and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is your router ip

that should set your ip and router ip's.
At bash type
mount -o remount,ro /
Now reboot your tivo and telnet in and at bash type

cd /hacks
sh tweak.sh
Hopefully this time you will download the latest for the net.
Good luck

[ttodd1]

I didn't remove it, so it still should be happening. Let me know if you discover why it's not.

Not sure why this comment since I was giving sjmaye some reasons to look at why he thought fakecall was not "working" anymore. :confused:

[cr33p]

Can I just pull the drive from the tivo and re run the zipper via the cd ? To remedy my problem with DNS?

[JWThiers]

Well as many of you, Im always so friggin busy I havent been able to follow up on this resolution. I tried JWThiers resolution and still receive the same error. My author file has the correct ip address for the tivo and the correct ip for the router.

Heres my output

Daves Tivo-bash# tivosh network.tcl 192.168.0.110 192.168.0.1
couldn't open "/enhancements/mfs_network": no such file or directory
while executing
"open /enhancements/mfs_network w"
("uplevel" body line 105)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {

set nconfig [db $db openidconstruction $goodfsid]

# Delete existing network settings, for testing...

dbobj $nconfig remove I..."
(file "network.tcl" line 53)
Daves Tivo-bash# mount -o remount,ro /
Daves Tivo-bash# cd /hacks
Daves Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: www.mastersav.com: Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
Assuming that you can see the /enhancements/mfs_network file actually listed that error kind of sounds like it somehow got into dos format, try running dos2unix on the file. Also make sure you are in write mode when running these commands.

[cr33p]

Hmm, browsing my dir structure via ftp , I can not locate an enhancements dir. Where exactly should it be located? Maybe this is my entire problem :)

[rbautch]

Hmm, browsing my dir structure via ftp , I can not locate an enhancements dir. Where exactly should it be located? Maybe this is my entire problem :)Try creating the /enhancements directory and run the script again.

[sk33t3r]

At / mkdir enhancements, then you can cd /enhancements enter

[cr33p]

Ok first of all you guys Friggin ROCK , it worked , best Xmas present ever :) Much thanks to everyone for all your recommendations. I was able to make the enhancements directory, ftp't the files to it, re ran the scripts, let it uninstall, then re ran the netconfig.tcl, then rebooted and now we are re downloading scripts :) wahooooooo

[sjmaye]

If you had tserver in var then it may have gotten wiped.

Fakecall works but the unit has to do a reboot in order for it to register that the "call was successful". There should be a cron job that reboots the system once a week or so, seems it is not running anymore.

Caller id - don't use it but there have been other threads of people having issues with it - check them out.

Hi ttodd1,

Thanks for the reply.

As for fake call, when first zippered it continually updated the last call date. As I remember it the last call would almost always be the same day as I was checking it and the next scheduled was the next day. Now it seems it does not register a successful call unless I make it reboot.

I was wondering if I could initate tweak.sh via telnet and it would reset everything like it was months ago. Anyone?

[fl_g8tor]

Im trying to run the zipper program and I'm having some problems. I have my cd drive set up as slave on the primary IDE and the new hard drive set up as master on the secondary IDE. CD rom shows up as hdb and the hard drive shows up as hdc. When I boot from the CD I get to this prompt:

PTVupgrade /#
and I type:

mount /dev/hdb /cdrom

and get the following message:

mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read only

and then it displays the prompt
PTVupgrade /#
again

I then type
/cdrom/zipper

and get this message:
sh: /cdrom/zipper: No such file or directory

After reading some other posts I tried typing this:

cd /cdrom
sh zipper.sh

I then get Welcom to the Zipper
Please enter the first 3 digits of your service4 number:

What is my sevice number? What am I doing wrong when I type
/cdrom/zipper and get the above message?

Also my hard drive is brand new out of the box. I haven't formated it yet. Do I need to. Thanks in advance for your help

Scott

[goony]

I then get Welcom to the Zipper
Please enter the first 3 digits of your service4 number:

What is my sevice number? What am I doing wrong when I type
/cdrom/zipper and get the above message?
The script is working, so don't sweat it.

Look on the back of your DTivo where the power cord plugs in - your service number is the first 3 digits of the serial number (S/N) tag. These 3 digits tell the script exactly what box you have so it can do the right things with your model.

[kevddawg]

Running the uninstall script should put it back. Then skip the question entirely the next time you run it.

Rats!! Running uninstall didn't put "Standby" back on the main menu. I even rebooted, just in case -- didn't make a difference.

I can pull the drive and re-do the entire process, if necessary. But...is there an easier way??

Kevin

[sk33t3r]

Superpatch67Standy.tcl will put standby on the main menu, you also need TuikHelper.tcl

[kevddawg]

Superpatch67Standy.tcl will put standby on the main menu, you also need TuikHelper.tcl

Can you be more specific about "needing" TuikHelper.tcl? Do I need to run it (or Superpatch67Standy.tcl" for that matter)? I'm kind of new to this, so if you can get me going in the right direction, I'd find that real helpful.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kevddawg]

Superpatch67Standy.tcl will put standby on the main menu, you also need TuikHelper.tcl

OK, I found Superpatch67Standby.tcl, ran it, and see the various options. Didn't work. First, it replied "Already Set, Skipping." So I ran it with the "-tcs" flag. That appeared to run successfully, but I didn't see any menu change. Then I ran it with "+tcs", and that appeared to run successfully. However, Standby isn't appearing on the menu.

I have an HR10-250, so I had to start with IC 3.1.5f and do the Slicer process to get to 6.3a, if that matters. Any ideas?

HdTiVo1-TiVo# Superpatch67Standby.tcl restore
Restore to TiVo defaults
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Music & Photos in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Error processing TivoCentral.brf!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl +tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Already Set, Skipping.
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl -tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Removing Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl +tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo#

[tchyde]

Got all the way thru the Zipper install (w/Instantcake) for a HR10-250 and the script says "HR10-250 does not support wireless at this time?"

Is this true?

If so, I've searched this forum (and the Zipper site) for a couple weeks looking at info and never heard a peep about this? :down:

Tried again today ... making sure I had slicer and same message ...
HR10-250 currrently does not support wireless networking?

Also read posts that the Zipper actually disables the daily calls ... so I am basically dead in the water.

Without wireless ... I will not be able to network and hence the Zipper was a waste of time & money.

Reverting back to an InstantCake for HR10-250 (with no zipper/hacks)

HR10-250+ Zipper + Wireless = Bad idea :down:

[fl_g8tor]

Thanks goony

Everything worked fine after that except local channels weren't coming in. Called DT and they got it back on. Now I have to figure out all the things I can do with my hacked tivo.

Thanks guys,

Scott

[vixflix]

First off, THANK YOU FOR THE ZIPPER. :) I zippered my 2 older Huges HDVR2 receivers and and sending the 2 new DirecTV R15's (Trash!). The Zipper worked great. I am using 2 Linksys Wireless-B USB Network Adapters (WUSB11v4). I entered the IP address of the Tivos and my Router during the Zippering. All went well but no MRV??? The power light is on the adapters but not the link light. I can not telnet to either of them. The adapters are brand new. Any sugestions?

[stackrat]

Gunnyman / Rbautch --- You guys ROCK!!!!

I had a hacked TiVo box in 3 hours FLAT!!! It would have been quicker but my wife wanted to watch TV in the middle of it. ...and I haven't logged into a Linux box since 2002!!!

Just one or two Q's:

I was checking out the crond schedule and I noticed two things. First, there's a line to run fakecall.tcl every day at 4:20gmt. Then there's a line to reboot (either forced or safe, depending on your answer to the script that put it there) twice a week at 9:25gmt.

The script that puts in the reboots asks about the phone line to decide on forced or safe reboots. If fakecall.tcl is doing its job, why force the reboots?

Why twice/week? It's not running Windows (lol). Heck, I once kept a Linux box (web & email server, samba fileserver -- it was busy) up for 8 months -- till a thunderstorm took out the power. Would have ran longer if my UPS were bigger!!! Well, I'll try one/week safe reboots and see how it goes.

[sk33t3r]

Stackrat, I have a linux box here at home doing the same thing your was doing, mail, web ect ect, it was up for 415 days before hurricane Rita took power down for over 6 hours, my UPS didnt last that long.

I think the weekly reboot is for TivoWeb and or to flush the logs out. Im no expert thats for sure.

[dswallow]

I believe the weekly reboot is for fakecall.tcl, which apparently only updates the date/time of the last call on a reboot thus preventing nag messages from appearing.

[Neoistheone2000]

If WEP is enabled on your tivo, you have to enable it on your router, and vice versa.

i disabled WEP on the tivo useing setSSIDwep all the settings look right but i still cant access it?

[sjmaye]

I ran the OEM 3.1.5f software for a year or so before the unit became VERY, VERY slow at responding to the different menus. It took as much as 5 minutes or more to register a request to record a program.

I tried various things before finally going to the "Restart or Reset System" selections. I tried the "Clear and delete everything"(This tells you how bad it was).

Turns out it worked great afterward. I was later advised by DTV that this was more or less a reformat of the system.

The questions-

Is this type of system slow down possible to a Zippered HD Tivo?
If so, what will happen if you try the "Clear and delete everything" selection?
Should I make somre sort of preparations that would ease getting the Zipper back up and running in the event of failure?

[stackrat]

I believe the weekly reboot is for fakecall.tcl, which apparently only updates the date/time of the last call on a reboot thus preventing nag messages from appearing.

I verified that the nightly fakecall.tcl call from crond is working so there really is no need to FORCE the reboots.

However I am leaning toward sk33t3r's theory that TiVoweb is what needs cleaning. The first boot-up was giving me all kinds of errors with TiViWeb, but after rebooting it the errors are all but gone. Its still a bit slow, but it works.

I'll try the weekly safe reboot and see how it goes.

PS: I grew up near Exit 11 and lived near Exit 8 (both on the NJ-TPK) when I got married. Moved out of NJ in '02.

[klgood1]

OK...stupid question. I've got 3 units that I zippered about a year ago, and have been working great, until recently. One has a dying tuner, and one has a bad hard drive. I replaced the bad hard drive, and was getting ready to run the zipper again, but I see that the procedure has changed somewhat. I've downloaded everything for the zipper universal boot cd, but I'm having the same problem a couple of other people mentioned, with the superpatch*.tcl file being burned as a *.tc extension. I tried using Nero 6, and also IMGBurn, as recommended, but I get the same thing each time. Is there something easy I'm missing here? The ISO has the correct extension.

Also, if I pull the already-zippered hard drives out of the HDVR2 with the dying tuner, I can just put them directly into the other HDVR2, right? I just have to run 51killer -- what's the exact procedure. I'm a bit gunshy to do this, 'cause I have a LOT of recordings on this machine.

Thanks -- this forum has made my tivo experience much better in the last year. I couldn't have done it without your help!

[Lord Vader]

C&D accomplishes the same thing, but takes over an hour, and wipes out network settings.

Just following up on this, Russ, since my brother moved his HDVR2 into his bedroom and installed an HR10-250 I hacked for him in his living room.

His HDVR2 is still finicky due to the slowly dying hard drive. If I send him a replacement drive and he installs it then does the C&D--no recordings or season passes on it--you're saying his connectivity would then be wiped out, correct? So does this effectively emasculate tweak.sh? If there's a way I can get him to connect to his HDVR2 upon installing the new drive, then he'd run tweak.sh normally, correct?

Just checking.

[hawkeye1991]

Hi,

I installed a 6.2 image from PTV upgrade on a new hard drive using the zipper, hacked it as per instructions. everything looked good.

But, I keep getting the error #51 whenever I tried to record something!

I repeated guided setup, restarted my tivo (I did not do "clear delete evrything").

but keep getting the same error message over and over again.

Please help.

hawk

PS: I did move the hard rive to another tivo. but it has the same starting S/N.

[JWThiers]

PS: I grew up near Exit 11 and lived near Exit 8 (both on the NJ-TPK) when I got married. Moved out of NJ in '02.
Southerners!!! ;) I was born off exit 100... :D

[Lord Vader]

Hi,

I installed a 6.2 image from PTV upgrade on a new hard drive using the zipper, hacked it as per instructions. everything looked good.

But, I keep getting the error #51 whenever I tried to record something!

I repeated guided setup, restarted my tivo (I did not do "clear delete evrything").

but keep getting the same error message over and over again.

Please help.

hawk

PS: I did move the hard rive to another tivo. but it has the same starting S/N.

Run killer51 and it'll clear it up.

[rbautch]

Hi,

I installed a 6.2 image from PTV upgrade on a new hard drive using the zipper, hacked it as per instructions. everything looked good.

But, I keep getting the error #51 whenever I tried to record something!

I repeated guided setup, restarted my tivo (I did not do "clear delete evrything").

but keep getting the same error message over and over again.

Please help.

hawk

PS: I did move the hard rive to another tivo. but it has the same starting S/N.
Have you run tweak.sh yet? Did you answer "no" when it asked you if you had recordings you wanted to keep?

[rbautch]

Just following up on this, Russ, since my brother moved his HDVR2 into his bedroom and installed an HR10-250 I hacked for him in his living room.

His HDVR2 is still finicky due to the slowly dying hard drive. If I send him a replacement drive and he installs it then does the C&D--no recordings or season passes on it--you're saying his connectivity would then be wiped out, correct? So does this effectively emasculate tweak.sh? If there's a way I can get him to connect to his HDVR2 upon installing the new drive, then he'd run tweak.sh normally, correct?

Just checking.
Yes on all accounts. You could put a line in the author file that runs network.tcl every time the tivo boots. That will ensure network params are always present. Just remember to remove that line so you'll be able to change network params in the future.

[rbautch]

OK...stupid question. I've got 3 units that I zippered about a year ago, and have been working great, until recently. One has a dying tuner, and one has a bad hard drive. I replaced the bad hard drive, and was getting ready to run the zipper again, but I see that the procedure has changed somewhat. I've downloaded everything for the zipper universal boot cd, but I'm having the same problem a couple of other people mentioned, with the superpatch*.tcl file being burned as a *.tc extension. I tried using Nero 6, and also IMGBurn, as recommended, but I get the same thing each time. Is there something easy I'm missing here? The ISO has the correct extension.

Also, if I pull the already-zippered hard drives out of the HDVR2 with the dying tuner, I can just put them directly into the other HDVR2, right? I just have to run 51killer -- what's the exact procedure. I'm a bit gunshy to do this, 'cause I have a LOT of recordings on this machine.

Thanks -- this forum has made my tivo experience much better in the last year. I couldn't have done it without your help!It's possible windows is truncating the filename. The true test is to view the file in Linux, after you've booted with with lba48 boot CD.

[rbautch]

I verified that the nightly fakecall.tcl call from crond is working so there really is no need to FORCE the reboots.

However I am leaning toward sk33t3r's theory that TiVoweb is what needs cleaning. The first boot-up was giving me all kinds of errors with TiViWeb, but after rebooting it the errors are all but gone. Its still a bit slow, but it works.

I'll try the weekly safe reboot and see how it goes.

PS: I grew up near Exit 11 and lived near Exit 8 (both on the NJ-TPK) when I got married. Moved out of NJ in '02.Even though fakecall runs, the call timers do not get reset unless the tivo is rebooted. So, regular reboots ARE necessary.

[rbautch]

I ran the OEM 3.1.5f software for a year or so before the unit became VERY, VERY slow at responding to the different menus. It took as much as 5 minutes or more to register a request to record a program.

I tried various things before finally going to the "Restart or Reset System" selections. I tried the "Clear and delete everything"(This tells you how bad it was).

Turns out it worked great afterward. I was later advised by DTV that this was more or less a reformat of the system.

The questions-

Is this type of system slow down possible to a Zippered HD Tivo?
If so, what will happen if you try the "Clear and delete everything" selection?
Should I make somre sort of preparations that would ease getting the Zipper back up and running in the event of failure? 3.1.5f is slow to begin with. In fact, any 3.x software is painfully slow. 6.3 is much faster. I suggest upgrading to 6.3 rather than C&D. However, if you must run C&D, you can either set up a command in your author file to re-establish networking (as I described above), or you can just re-run the Zipper.

[rbautch]

First off, THANK YOU FOR THE ZIPPER. :) I zippered my 2 older Huges HDVR2 receivers and and sending the 2 new DirecTV R15's (Trash!). The Zipper worked great. I am using 2 Linksys Wireless-B USB Network Adapters (WUSB11v4). I entered the IP address of the Tivos and my Router during the Zippering. All went well but no MRV??? The power light is on the adapters but not the link light. I can not telnet to either of them. The adapters are brand new. Any sugestions?The wusb11v4 is not compatible with tivo. See the list of adapters linked in the Zipper instructions.

[rbautch]

Gunnyman / Rbautch --- You guys ROCK!!!!

I had a hacked TiVo box in 3 hours FLAT!!! It would have been quicker but my wife wanted to watch TV in the middle of it. ...and I haven't logged into a Linux box since 2002!!!

Just one or two Q's:

I was checking out the crond schedule and I noticed two things. First, there's a line to run fakecall.tcl every day at 4:20gmt. Then there's a line to reboot (either forced or safe, depending on your answer to the script that put it there) twice a week at 9:25gmt.

The script that puts in the reboots asks about the phone line to decide on forced or safe reboots. If fakecall.tcl is doing its job, why force the reboots?

Why twice/week? It's not running Windows (lol). Heck, I once kept a Linux box (web & email server, samba fileserver -- it was busy) up for 8 months -- till a thunderstorm took out the power. Would have ran longer if my UPS were bigger!!! Well, I'll try one/week safe reboots and see how it goes.The reboots allow the fakecall settings to take effect. That needs to be twice/week if you want to fool your tivo into thinking it's never time to make a call to the mothership.

[rbautch]

Got all the way thru the Zipper install (w/Instantcake) for a HR10-250 and the script says "HR10-250 does not support wireless at this time?"

Is this true?

If so, I've searched this forum (and the Zipper site) for a couple weeks looking at info and never heard a peep about this? :down:

Tried again today ... making sure I had slicer and same message ...
HR10-250 currrently does not support wireless networking?

Also read posts that the Zipper actually disables the daily calls ... so I am basically dead in the water.

Without wireless ... I will not be able to network and hence the Zipper was a waste of time & money.

Reverting back to an InstantCake for HR10-250 (with no zipper/hacks)

HR10-250+ Zipper + Wireless = Bad idea :down:My HR10-250 is happily running wirelessly, although I did not use a wireless adapter. The trick is to use a wired adapter, and then connect that to a wireless bridge, which communicates wireless to your router. Plenty of threads here with more specifics. :up:

[rbautch]

OK, I found Superpatch67Standby.tcl, ran it, and see the various options. Didn't work. First, it replied "Already Set, Skipping." So I ran it with the "-tcs" flag. That appeared to run successfully, but I didn't see any menu change. Then I ran it with "+tcs", and that appeared to run successfully. However, Standby isn't appearing on the menu.

I have an HR10-250, so I had to start with IC 3.1.5f and do the Slicer process to get to 6.3a, if that matters. Any ideas?

HdTiVo1-TiVo# Superpatch67Standby.tcl restore
Restore to TiVo defaults
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Music & Photos in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Error processing TivoCentral.brf!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl +tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Already Set, Skipping.
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl -tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Removing Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo# ./Superpatch67Standby.tcl +tcs
Current Software Version: 6.3a-01-2-357
Adding Standby in TiVo (DIRECTV) Central
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentral.brf
Done!
HdTiVo1-TiVo#
Check for a newer version of Superpatch67Standby.tcl. I believe it was updated since the one that included with the Zipper.

[hawkeye1991]

Have you run tweak.sh yet? Did you answer "no" when it asked you if you had recordings you wanted to keep?


Yes, I ran the tweaks by telnetting to it and i answered no for the old recordings, I think.

Just in case I screwed that up, how do I fix it? Run tweaks.sh again?

Also, how do I run "killer51" as one of the previous posts suggested?

Is this something I need to download and ftp to the tivo drive? If so coould give some help with the commands for moving files to the tive by FTP. thanks.

Hawk

PS: I moved my old zippered drive to another Dtivo HDVR2 SD DVR40 and I keep having to deal with error 51 again! This drive worked with nop problems in my old Tivo in ininstalled my new drive. is this something to do with having to fix it every time the zippered HD and the TIVO have not seen each other b4? :confused:

[klgood1]

It's possible windows is truncating the filename. The true test is to view the file in Linux, after you've booted with with lba48 boot CD.

I didn't think about that. Thanks for the info. I went ahead and tried the disc anyway, because I couldn't see any other way to burn it, and it worked fine. Thanks again for all your hard work. :)

[PJO1966]

I'm anxiously waiting for my serial cable to arrive (out for delivery since 7:44am). Once I hook it up, is there a way to tell if I already ran tweaks on this drive? I did it a couple weeks ago and made several attempts at zippering on various drives before trying them in the TiVo. I don't recall if I did it on the last attempt.

[hawkeye1991]

I figured out what the problem is! If you runt he tweak and transfer the drive to another TIVO, it gets messed up. It looks like some kinda of link between the hardware and the harddrive (should have guessed that one)

anyway, I was able to rerun tweaks.sh and of I went! thanks

Hawk

[wood019]

I am struggling to get my hacks to run. I access my tivo via the tera term and a serial cable. I connect and get a bash prompt but then I run into the following problem. I am not sure how to fix this. I would appreciate any help. Thanks

bash: /: is a directory
bash-2.02# /hacks/tweak.sh

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
--01:27:59-- http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_tweak/rbautch_files.tgz
=> `/enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz'
Resolving www.mastersav.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

[Lord Vader]

Manually FTP the rbautch tar file to your hacks directory, then rerun tweak. It'll recognize that the file is there and skip the download and will then run.

[wood019]

Manually FTP the rbautch tar file to your hacks directory, then rerun tweak. It'll recognize that the file is there and skip the download and will then run.

My IP address doesn't work so I am using a serial cable. Can I use FTP via the serial cable or access the directories of the Tivo via tera term?

[wood019]

My IP address doesn't work so I am using a serial cable. Can I use FTP via the serial cable or access the directories of the Tivo via tera term?

got it. I had to tell the hyperterminal to telnet in order to get into the tivo. I feel like an a$$. There goes 3 hours of my life that I won't get back. All in the name of learning I guess...

[r0ydster]

Rbautch, followed your instructions as dictated on the Zipper page on a HDVR2 that I had laying around. Took about an hour. The longest part was the downloading and swapping the drives.

Thanks again to you guys, you've made a lot of people very happy.

Keep up the good work.

Mike

[hawkeye1991]

Manually FTP the rbautch tar file to your hacks directory, then rerun tweak. It'll recognize that the file is there and skip the download and will then run.


Lord vader,

Help a noob here. what commads does one use to ftp the bufferhack file over to the tivo drive. which directory do I put the bufferhack file in? how do I run the hack?

thanks
HAWK

[wood019]

You guys are probably getting sick of me by now, but I still have now IP address on my network for my TIVO. Let me start by saying that I am running a RCA DVR-40 DTIVO and a USB200M. All the lights are working on it so I know that I have an active port. I ran net-launch.sh and set my information and have the current setup in effect afterward:

The following IP parameters are now set in MFS:
IP address is currently set to: 192.168.1.102
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

then I check my settings with ifconfig and see the following:

bash-2.02# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:B6:EF:94:28
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:315 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:29970 (29.2 Kb) TX bytes:92 (92.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2030 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:2030 (1.9 Kb)

I notice that in the Eth0 I see a HWaddr which is my MAC address but I have no IP address assigned. Nothing shows up on AngryIP and I never could Telnet into my TIVO without a serial cable and HyperTerminal or Tera Term. Poking around via the serial cable I was able to run my tweaks successfully. I was wondering after doing some reading if the settings in my author file were not setting an IP address or something like that, but I can't find the author file anywhere on my tivo. I have read that it should be as easy as going in via the serial cable and typing "author" at the bash prompt, but I get an error.

Maybe this was wreckless, but I tried using some other network utilities in other folders on my tivo and I keep receiving messages stating that I am in read-only mode such as this.

bash-2.02# network.tcl
couldn't open "/enhancements/mfs_network": read-only file system
while executing
"open /enhancements/mfs_network w"
("uplevel" body line 53)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {
set nconfig [db $db openidconstruction $goodfsid]
# Delete existing network settings, for testing...
dbobj $nconfig remove IpPa..."
(file ".//network.tcl" line 27)

I don't think that I am in over my head, but I think that something isn't right. I followed the directions to a T twice. First, I had a bad ISO burn on my zipper disk that cost me a few days and after rewraping the ISO everything installed ok, but now I am having this problem. I would sincerely appreciate some additional help. Thanks again guys

[ttodd1]

Lord vader,

Help a noob here. what commads does one use to ftp the bufferhack file over to the tivo drive. which directory do I put the bufferhack file in? how do I run the hack?

thanks
HAWK


This was answered in your other post:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4715491&&#post4715491

[stackrat]

Even though fakecall runs, the call timers do not get reset unless the tivo is rebooted. So, regular reboots ARE necessary.
The reboots allow the fakecall settings to take effect. That needs to be twice/week if you want to fool your tivo into thinking it's never time to make a call to the mothership.
Thanks for answering my question twice!!! ;)

I see what you mean now and changed mine to 3 safereboots/week. That way, I'm bound to get at least 2. Just a personal preference, I occasionally record obscure movies that are on late at night.

Thanks again!!!

[JWThiers]

You guys are probably getting sick of me by now, but I still have now IP address on my network for my TIVO. Let me start by saying that I am running a RCA DVR-40 DTIVO and a USB200M. All the lights are working on it so I know that I have an active port. I ran net-launch.sh and set my information and have the current setup in effect afterward:



then I check my settings with ifconfig and see the following:



I notice that in the Eth0 I see a HWaddr which is my MAC address but I have no IP address assigned. Nothing shows up on AngryIP and I never could Telnet into my TIVO without a serial cable and HyperTerminal or Tera Term. Poking around via the serial cable I was able to run my tweaks successfully. I was wondering after doing some reading if the settings in my author file were not setting an IP address or something like that, but I can't find the author file anywhere on my tivo. I have read that it should be as easy as going in via the serial cable and typing "author" at the bash prompt, but I get an error.

Maybe this was wreckless, but I tried using some other network utilities in other folders on my tivo and I keep receiving messages stating that I am in read-only mode such as this.



I don't think that I am in over my head, but I think that something isn't right. I followed the directions to a T twice. First, I had a bad ISO burn on my zipper disk that cost me a few days and after rewraping the ISO everything installed ok, but now I am having this problem. I would sincerely appreciate some additional help. Thanks again guys
Try the wiki here (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Network_adapter_not_working_-_Lights_are_on_but_no_ones_home). Also try write mode, type rw.

[Brillian1080p]

I had 6.3a running great for a few days and decided to try mfs_ftp last night. Woke up this morning to find all channels received and no logos.

I have the normal patches running. If I run tweak.sh again will it erase the patches?

[he244]

Here's some help for those who get

"tivo/hacks/rbautch_files.tgz unexpected end of file" errors

After some experimenting, it seems that miso.exe may be corrupting the rbautch_files.tgz file. You can unzip it fine before, but not always after, running zipper_isomaker.bat. Maybe it's the number of nested directories? Don't know.

Anyway, this worked for me, and resulted in no errors.

1. Build the zipper_universal_CD.iso as usual.
2. Use an ISO utility like MagicISO to delete rbautch_files.tgz file from the .iso image
3. Replace rbautch_files.tgz back into .iso with a known good copy.
4. Burn the modified zipper_universal_CD.iso
5. Ta da !

[hawkeye1991]

help,

Looks like I royally messed up my drive.

I was able to watch all my programs on my backup Dtivo. It was zippered last december.

I was trying to do bufferhack and "other" installs.

the command line commmnds didn't seem to work. they just seem to hang up and i get no response back. Only commands which works are

PWD and cd

I'm not getting any response for "ls"

I felt that uninstalling tweak might help. I was able to do that.

no dice

then I tried reinstalling tweaks by typing

/hacks/tweak.sh

nothing happens! I'm able to see the directory and the files using filezilla.

So I figured zippering it again would fix the problem. zippered it, with the option of saving the recordings. Put it back in my tivo booted it.

but the problem persists.

I'm able to PWD, CD, MKDIR.

no other command works

not ls, not tweak.sh, not rmdir

help!

:( :( :( :(

hawk

[tibo]

I have zippered a couple of drives, no issue but what I am wanting to do now, is not use instacakes image, but one of the images off another drive... a mfsbackup gives me a .bak file, my question is how can I use this image instead of the 000001 image on the universal zipper cd??

[PJO1966]

Looks like I lost the lights on my USB adaptor. Time to remove the drive and rezipper again?

[ForrestB]

I have zippered a couple of drives, no issue but what I am wanting to do now, is not use instacakes image, but one of the images off another drive... a mfsbackup gives me a .bak file, my question is how can I use this image instead of the 000001 image on the universal zipper cd??

Using your favorite MFSTools 2 instructions (Weaknees or Hinsdale) use the mfsrestore command to restore and expand the new Tivo drive. Install it back in your Tivo to make sure it's working and recognizes the extra space on the larger hard drive. Put the Tivo drive back in your PC and follow the Tivo instructions. Note when you're creating the Zipper CD "If you are using a drive that has Tivo software already installed (like your original drive), then you don't need to copy an image to the zipper_tools directory."

I zippered both of my Tivo's using this method - no problems.

[tibo]

ok, but what I am trying to do is use my own image inside of zipper for virgin hard drives, I can always go through the hinsdale or weaknees process and do the mfrestore to the drive before I zipper, but if I can put the image I want inside of zipper, it expedites the process.

currently zipper is looking at the 0000001 file, not sure it will see my tivo.bak file or how to get it too

[rbautch]

ok, but what I am trying to do is use my own image inside of zipper for virgin hard drives, I can always go through the hinsdale or weaknees process and do the mfrestore to the drive before I zipper, but if I can put the image I want inside of zipper, it expedites the process.

currently zipper is looking at the 0000001 file, not sure it will see my tivo.bak file or how to get it tooJust rename tivo.bak to 000001.

[rbautch]

help,

Looks like I royally messed up my drive.

I was able to watch all my programs on my backup Dtivo. It was zippered last december.

I was trying to do bufferhack and "other" installs.

the command line commmnds didn't seem to work. they just seem to hang up and i get no response back. Only commands which works are

PWD and cd

I'm not getting any response for "ls"

I felt that uninstalling tweak might help. I was able to do that.

no dice

then I tried reinstalling tweaks by typing

/hacks/tweak.sh

nothing happens! I'm able to see the directory and the files using filezilla.

So I figured zippering it again would fix the problem. zippered it, with the option of saving the recordings. Put it back in my tivo booted it.

but the problem persists.

I'm able to PWD, CD, MKDIR.

no other command works

not ls, not tweak.sh, not rmdir

help!

:( :( :( :(

hawk
This is a symptom of a corrupted busybox directory, which can be caused by overwriting a symlink in that directory. To fix it, you'll need to pull the drive or get a serial cable. If you pull the drive, mount it in your PC, and remove the entire busybox directory with rm -rf /tivo/busybox, or wherever your tivo is mounted. Then run the Zipper again.

[mrkulit146]

I tried the zipper but it wouldn't include the image file I purchased. What can I do to get that file included or can I just burn that on a separate CD ? It gives me the message "Created zipper_universal_CD WITHOUT tivo image." On top of that it would find my hard drive also. I guess I need something else because my main hard drive is IDE and I am using an ATA adaptor for my tivo hard drive.

[tibo]

Rbautch, thats it... just 000001. and it will find it??? Now I feel stupid, hehehehe

on a side note, after all the locals come back... any recommended a program to link up to my tivo and move programs around

[hawkeye1991]

This is a symptom of a corrupted busybox directory, which can be caused by overwriting a symlink in that directory. To fix it, you'll need to pull the drive or get a serial cable. If you pull the drive, mount it in your PC, and remove the entire busybox directory with rm -rf /tivo/busybox, or wherever your tivo is mounted. Then run the Zipper again.

Thanks Rbautch,

I should able to remove it and mount it on my pc.

Where do I execute this command for removing busybox directory from?

Do I run it from the tivo drive OS or do i somehow access it thro windows/DOS command line?

Thanks
hawk

[tibo]

Just rename tivo.bak to 000001.

ok, Tried to just rename my image file, zipper iso maker will not detect it, I think it might be a size check.

[rbautch]

ok, Tried to just rename my image file, zipper iso maker will not detect it, I think it might be a size check.Theres no size check, but if the image is larger than 290MB, the isomaker wont work with it.

[PJO1966]

TiVo successfully reZipped. Thanks to Gunny and rbautch for a great tool.

[tibo]

ok, zippered and up and working, with a few glitches.... none of the filters seem to work at all, not on the guide or in the search for title.... I get some listings, but do a search for a movie... it just says "No Programs", same for shows that are in the guide but just can search for them...???

[kimsan]

It's possible windows is truncating the filename. The true test is to view the file in Linux, after you've booted with with lba48 boot CD.

You Are correct, sir.

The .tc vs .tcl extension appears when viewing within windows. When the cd is booted up, the files is .tcl.

[JWThiers]

ok, zippered and up and working, with a few glitches.... none of the filters seem to work at all, not on the guide or in the search for title.... I get some listings, but do a search for a movie... it just says "No Programs", same for shows that are in the guide but just can search for them...???
It takes a day or so for All of the guide data to download. Try agin after a day.

[tibo]

thanks guys, I can telnet my tivo and everything looks fine, but can someone point me in a direction of what software I need to move shows between tivo's or to my desktop, using winXP. And most of the stuff I read was all for linux

[ForrestB]

thanks guys, I can telnet my tivo and everything looks fine, but can someone point me in a direction of what software I need to move shows between tivo's or to my desktop, using winXP. And most of the stuff I read was all for linux

You don't need to install anything to move shows between zippered DirecTivo's - just scroll to the bottom of the Now Playing list and you'll see your other Tivo's listed and select/view shows from the other Tivo's.

You'll need to go to the DDB forum for info on viewing shows on your computer.

[tibo]

thanks forrest, I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to set up your pc to act as a tivo on the network to transfer shows to the pc. I did all the zipper, can telnet in, but when I went to install tivo web plus to my puter... it kind of would not recognize it, so I assume it was linux and my pc is XP.

So I guess I am a little lost here, what all do I need to do... A look at Rbautchs enhancement page shows a nice little window to actually view the tivo box... all I get is the bash prompt... so when it comes to linux... I am a fish out of water.

[ForrestB]

The Zipper installed TivoWebPlus on your Tivo and automatically starts it when you start the Tivo. To access TivoWebPlus, you just need to type in your Tivo's ipaddress into your favorite web browser on your PC/Mac. Most of the Tivo's functions are listed under User Interface in TWP.

[peteyg]

Hacked RCA DTivo DVR40

Does the zipper hack provide a way to remotely schedule recordings?
If not, can someone please give info on how I can do this. THANKS!

[hawkeye1991]

How exactly delete the corrupted busy box?


I can pull th drive and install it on my desktop.

I'm comfortable working from the command line. But how do I access the drive? Thro the OS on the TIVO drive or access thro the dos prompt somehow? p

Help please!

hawk

[ruexp67]

You would need to boot from a linux boot disk. Then mount the hard drive (check the Hinsdale guide for a very good explination of how to do that.) then run the "rm" command shown above. Dos/Windows command prompt won't cut it.

[hawkeye1991]

You would need to boot from a linux boot disk. Then mount the hard drive (check the Hinsdale guide for a very good explination of how to do that.) then run the "rm" command shown above. Dos/Windows command prompt won't cut it.


will the PTV boot CD work? or the MFS tools boot cd?

So once I boot up with the CD,

Do I mount the HD? Says its in hda (primary mster)

I type

"mount /dev/hda"

Then navigate to the correct folder and delete the stuff.

Please help with the commands!!!!

hawk

[midiwall]

Dos/Windows command prompt won't cut it.And in fact, letting Windows try to access the drive could toast the partition table.

[ForrestB]

Hacked RCA DTivo DVR40

Does the zipper hack provide a way to remotely schedule recordings?
If not, can someone please give info on how I can do this. THANKS!

See the Tivo Remote Access Tool sticky at the top of this forum. I have this installed on both of my Zippered Tivo's and it works well.

[tibo]

Well I must say thanks to all... really appreciate your help, now I just need a real good lesson on commands to use in telnet prompts...

I ended up re-running the tweaks and now can browse in and out of my tivo...

thanks guys... but I thought tivowebplus had a way to move files to my pc, or do I need to ftp into the tivo?

So as to not freak anyone out... I dont need to view them on my PC, and because I currently only have one Tivo connected to the network (only one USB200M) I want to pull some of the wifes shows off of one box... move the network to another tivo and upload the shows. Dont care about converting, just transfer to my pc... disconnect tivo... and move to another

[hawkeye1991]

I'm trying to remove the corrupted busybox as per rbautch suggestion

I mounted the TIVO harddrive in my Pc as the primary mster.

I boot from the PTA boot CD.

I cd over to root directory

I guessed the TIVO HD is in the /dev and probably listed as hda (becos it was when the Cd was booting up)

I tried cd over to hda : no dice

I tried mounting it : no dice

I simply typed hda : nothing doing!

Help! how do I access the TIVO drive at this point?

hawk :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

RBAUTCH! HELP!!!!!!

[JWThiers]

Hacked RCA DTivo DVR40

Does the zipper hack provide a way to remotely schedule recordings?
If not, can someone please give info on how I can do this. THANKS!
Inside your network TivoWebPlus. Outside your network try gotomydvr.com.

[drvnsily]

got a quick question, can't seem to find it in these 300 pages.
I have a HR10-250. Imiging 2 drives with instacake w/ slices.
do I upgrade the software to 6a then 6b and then install zipper.
Or do the zipper first and then upgade to 6a and 6b.
I imaged my drives wrong the first time around.
but I upgraded to 6a installed zipper then upgaded to 6b and had to uninstall tweak.sh and reinstall to make the stuff work again.

Also, on the HR 10-250 in the main menu should it have a music&pictures selection after going to 6b, I did my 708 a while back and that seams to be working fine.

Lastly does anyone have more info on MRV, will the HR10-250 work with the DSR-708?
how do you get them to see each other, I am a little confused with this one.

[JWThiers]

got a quick question, can't seem to find it in these 300 pages.
I have a HR10-250. Imiging 2 drives with instacake w/ slices.
do I upgrade the software to 6a then 6b and then install zipper.
Or do the zipper first and then upgade to 6a and 6b.
I imaged my drives wrong the first time around.
but I upgraded to 6a installed zipper then upgaded to 6b and had to uninstall tweak.sh and reinstall to make the stuff work again.

Also, on the HR 10-250 in the main menu should it have a music&pictures selection after going to 6b, I did my 708 a while back and that seams to be working fine.

Lastly does anyone have more info on MRV, will the HR10-250 work with the DSR-708?
how do you get them to see each other, I am a little confused with this one.
I don't have that model so this is purely an academic answer on my part(YMMV). the simplest zipper route for the HR10 is from 3.5.5f (?) zipper this then slice upgrade to 6.3a (I suppose slicing to 6.3b is the current version).
I don't think MRV works on the HR10's at all.

[dswallow]

I'm trying to remove the corrupted busybox as per rbautch suggestion

I mounted the TIVO harddrive in my Pc as the primary mster.

I boot from the PTA boot CD.

I cd over to root directory

I guessed the TIVO HD is in the /dev and probably listed as hda (becos it was when the Cd was booting up)

I tried cd over to hda : no dice

I tried mounting it : no dice

I simply typed hda : nothing doing!

Help! how do I access the TIVO drive at this point?

hawk :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

RBAUTCH! HELP!!!!!!
You need to get just a little bit accustomed to how things are done in Linux so you can follow the kinds of instructions people will most likely give you (as opposed to having people tell you in great detail how to do things). Think of it like someone saying "turn on the light in the room" versus having to tell you how to locate and adjust a wall-mounted dimmer switch. :)

There may very well be something more higher-level on the boot CD you have that'd make this process simpler, however the basic normal way to do this is:

(we're assuming the TiVo drive is /dev/hda -- your primary master, if it isn't subsititute the correct device in place in these instructions)

Boot from the CD and at the shell prompt enter:

bootpage -p /dev/hda

That'll return information about the boot partition currently being used. It'll be either /dev/hda4 or /dev/hda7. This identifies the active root partition that you'll want to mount.

Now enter (Substitute hda7 for hda4 if that's what was reported above):

mkdir /mnt/root
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/root

Now the boot partition is accessible to you from the "/mnt/root" (you could use any otherwise non-existent name you prefer instead) link... just use a change directory command, like you're familair with in DOS:

cd /mnt/root

Then do an "ls" command (or "ls -al") and you should see the directories there, one of which ought to be your "busybox" directory.

[hawkeye1991]

I'm trying to catch with the linux command structure now. I'm going thro different online tutorials to get upto speed. I'm trying to understand the syntax and logic of diffrent commands. Its taking me little longer than other stuff I'm used to. thanks for you help!

hawk

[hawkeye1991]

I got it done with your help

hawk

[smudley]

Searching the vast amount of posts didn't provide the solution I was looking for or I may have overlooked it. My apologies if there was one posted.

I have a SIR-4040 DTivo with Zipper v2.6 on a 300 mb drive.
The Zipper install went as planned; answered all the questions, typed a IP address and router IP when prompted and it finished with a successful message.

I didn't have a cable or NIC until 2 days after the upgrade but I now have a Linksys WUSB11 v2.6 and a serial cable.

I tuned off WEP on my router per instructions and I can't get a ping to the DTivo. I even shut down the DTivo and powered it up again and still nothing.

To make things even worse, I can't even Telnet to my DTivo either. (I even tried 2 different computers just to make sure it wasn't the problem.)

I get this message: ". . . could not open connection to host on port 23 . . ."

So, what did I do wrong and how do I get these things fixed?
Have I overlooked something?

p.s., My wife has been giving me that look of death since I started tinkered with my DTivo so any quick response would be appreciated!!! :eek:

Thanks in advance!

[PJO1966]

I had my first two real issues since doing the Zipper. First, today I was watching a program that had recorded. I hit FF twice to go through the commercials. It started to do what it was supposed to do and then it paused. The only way for me to get through that commercial break was to FFx1. The rest of the commercial breaks were fine.

The second issue just happened. I added a new season pass. I got the message that it was successfully added and to hit select to continue. I tried hitting select and also tried the back arrow. Nothing happened. It eventually backed out of the menus on its own, but I still had no control with the remote. I'm trying to log on to TiVoWeb through my browser but it's not connecting. I can telnet in, but I don't know enough about that to navigate my way through. I'm going to have to pull the plug to reset it. Does this sound like something that could be a result of the zipper or would it be something else? The hard drive is brand new. I'm going to have to pull the plug to reset it.

[PJO1966]

After the reboot, everything worked fine and I was able to log in to TiVoWeb with no problem.

[JWThiers]

Searching the vast amount of posts didn't provide the solution I was looking for or I may have overlooked it. My apologies if there was one posted.

I have a SIR-4040 DTivo with Zipper v2.6 on a 300 mb drive.
The Zipper install went as planned; answered all the questions, typed a IP address and router IP when prompted and it finished with a successful message.

I didn't have a cable or NIC until 2 days after the upgrade but I now have a Linksys WUSB11 v2.6 and a serial cable.

I tuned off WEP on my router per instructions and I can't get a ping to the DTivo. I even shut down the DTivo and powered it up again and still nothing.

To make things even worse, I can't even Telnet to my DTivo either. (I even tried 2 different computers just to make sure it wasn't the problem.)

I get this message: ". . . could not open connection to host on port 23 . . ."

So, what did I do wrong and how do I get these things fixed?
Have I overlooked something?

p.s., My wife has been giving me that look of death since I started tinkered with my DTivo so any quick response would be appreciated!!! :eek:

Thanks in advance!
Time to break in that serial cable. Check out the wiki troubleshooting section especially Starting here. (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Serial_Cable.2C_the_best_pie ce_of_insurance_to_have)

[ruexp67]

Well I must say thanks to all... really appreciate your help, now I just need a real good lesson on commands to use in telnet prompts...

I ended up re-running the tweaks and now can browse in and out of my tivo...

thanks guys... but I thought tivowebplus had a way to move files to my pc, or do I need to ftp into the tivo?

So as to not freak anyone out... I dont need to view them on my PC, and because I currently only have one Tivo connected to the network (only one USB200M) I want to pull some of the wifes shows off of one box... move the network to another tivo and upload the shows. Dont care about converting, just transfer to my pc... disconnect tivo... and move to another

This is still technically extraction. It's going to be MUCH easier to just get another network adapter for your second Tivo and do the MRV between the tivos.

[tibo]

thanks guys, I have installed tivoserver and I am going to have to re-rerun tweak again as I have no transfer option available, but it does recognize my tivoserver(pc).

My hope is to be able to transfer from one box to the server(pc), then to a new box.

If there is something wrong with my new found logic, please advise

[kevddawg]

New problem (for me). Ever since I hacked my HR10-250 with the Zipper process, I get "Message #81" every few days. The subject is "Please activate your DVR service". The message text itself says "Your service is not currently active. To activate, please call DIRECTV Customer Support at 1-800-DIRECTV."

I've gotten around this by rebooting the box -- things go back to normal after the reboot.

Where did I screw up??

[ckraimer]

I have an HR10-250. In the past I have hacked an SD tivo the hard way - I was looking forward the ease of the Zipper. Unfortunately it's been rough.
At first I kept getting stuck at Welcome. screen. Hours later after changing jumpers from cable select to master to slave to bite me (j/k) and rezippering.
I discovered post hidden in the middle of the 1800 that said they weren't typing Halt in linux after zippering. That was the trick to fix the welcome screen stickage.

Then I move on to run the scripts. I telnet in, I type the command and I get:
can not download the latest update DNS? I tried yes a bunch then went and did more research. There's no reason the tivo can't get to the internet other than the DNS is screwed up. From what I can tell it's set to 4.2.2.2, but I have an ip address of 192.168.1.8 and my router is 192.168.1.1 which I entered into zipper so all should be good, right? No matter, I don't need no stinking dns, so I Manually copy the rbautch_files.tgz, ftp it and rerun it. Still fails, now it complains about:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Unable to untar files archive. Could be a failed download.
Adjusting your DNS settings. Please run tweak.sh again. Exiting...


I've read all the posts I can read, could someone just tell me what to do? I'd REALLY appreciate it.

[tibo]

ok, I downloaded and am running filezilla... ftp'd right into tivo... now issue, reading up on the zipper I ran across this:
Using Filezilla, connect to your source TiVo and go to the /tmf directory. Choose a destination directory on your PC. You can easily identify the programs by their displayed file names. Then just drag a file from the source to the destination

Now I have been looking for the /tmf directory... can anyone point me in the right direction

[dswallow]

ok, I downloaded and am running filezilla... ftp'd right into tivo... now issue, reading up on the zipper I ran across this:
Using Filezilla, connect to your source TiVo and go to the /tmf directory. Choose a destination directory on your PC. You can easily identify the programs by their displayed file names. Then just drag a file from the source to the destination

Now I have been looking for the /tmf directory... can anyone point me in the right direction
You need to be running mfs_ftp; the tmf subdirectory will be found there; that's an ftp server into the mfs filesystem. The regular ftp server is just into the operating system filesystem.

mfs_ftp will run on port 3105, so if you already have mfs_ftp installed and running, use an ftp client to connect to the TiVo on port 3105.

[tibo]

I thought zipper installed the mfs_ftp? or do I have to install this seperately

[Lord Vader]

BTW, when using FileZilla, remember to transfer files in binary mode.

[ttodd1]

I thought zipper installed the mfs_ftp? or do I have to install this seperately

You have to install

[JWThiers]

Then I move on to run the scripts. I telnet in, I type the command and I get:
can not download the latest update DNS? I tried yes a bunch then went and did more research. There's no reason the tivo can't get to the internet other than the DNS is screwed up. From what I can tell it's set to 4.2.2.2, but I have an ip address of 192.168.1.8 and my router is 192.168.1.1 which I entered into zipper so all should be good, right? No matter, I don't need no stinking dns, so I Manually copy the rbautch_files.tgz, ftp it and rerun it. Still fails, now it complains about:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Unable to untar files archive. Could be a failed download.
Adjusting your DNS settings. Please run tweak.sh again. Exiting...


I've read all the posts I can read, could someone just tell me what to do? I'd REALLY appreciate it.
Sounds like either a bad file or it got put into dos format somehow. Try running dos2unix on the .tgz file then also set your DNS correctly as found in the wiki here. (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Network_adapter_not_working_-_Lights_are_on_but_no_ones_home)

[Rhughes]

Could someone explain why any discussion of extraction is forbidden in this forum? According to the Wiki definition, it involves copying a program from a Tivo to a computer or another Tivo to create a DVD, etc. I can already copy a program from an unmodified Tivo to a DVR. What is so different about copying that same program via FTP to a computer hard drive that we can't discuss it?

[BigBoy_67]

First , I have upgraded a few Tivos before, however I am havings lot's of trouble with the HR10-250.

1) I can upgrade the original drive to larger capacity (500GB), however I can't get it to boot up when i try to upgrade to a dual drive system. I am trying to get another 500GB drive added as the slave but have no luck. I have tried both the mfsadd command and the mfsrestore for both drives from my backup file. Any suggestions ?

2) I have software version 6.3b on my HR10-250, however I can't get Zipper to work at all...I enter my 3 digit code 357...then it looks like it might work, but then I get errors and my drives need to be restored again. Can I use Zipper on this version ? Or do I need slicer ?

[ckraimer]

Ok - i had forgotten to turn binary on - man it's been too long!

i ended up running the script manually and it worked, but now I've rezippered and am attempting the 6.3b slices upgrade. I'm stuck but this isn't the place for those questions.

Thanks for your help.

Chris

[ckraimer]

No matter what I do DNS does not work. It always goes back to 4.2.2.2
How do I fix that?

[dswallow]

No matter what I do DNS does not work. It always goes back to 4.2.2.2
How do I fix that?
4.2.2.2 is actually a valid DNS server.

It's configured in the file "/etc/resolv.conf" (which might be just a link to "/var/etc/resolv.conf").

You may have a line in your rc.sysinit.author file (or possibly elsewhere) that's reconfiguring it every time your system boots... look for a reference to network.tcl or netconfig.tcl.

network.tcl has the DNS setting hardcoded; netconfig.tcl takes it as a command line parameter.

It shouldn't really matter, since 4.2.2.2 is a valid DNS server.

[hawkeye1991]

smartftp connects, filezilla does not

neither one downloads

What gives?


hawk

[Da Goon]

smartftp connects, filezilla does not

neither one downloads

What gives?


hawk

No one here has any idea what steps you used to install/run mfs_ftp, therefor very little assistance can be given. Also, the function of mfs_ftp is a topic that is expressly forbidden on this site, so you would likely find more support on the "other forum" if you provide considerably more details on how you got to this point.
As far as your previous question in regards to starting from a clean slate, simply delete your current mfs_ftp directory and start anew. Check the zipper wiki for detailed install instructions.

[hawkeye1991]

No one here has any idea what steps you used to install/run mfs_ftp, therefor very little assistance can be given. Also, the function of mfs_ftp is a topic that is expressly forbidden on this site, so you would likely find more support on the "other forum" if you provide considerably more details on how you got to this point.
As far as your previous question in regards to starting from a clean slate, simply delete your current mfs_ftp directory and start anew. Check the zipper wiki for detailed install instructions.

I'll try that. the other forum being DDB?

hawk

[Leonard Jensen]

I was having the same problem

Just telnet to the tivo
type 51killer.tcl
hit enter
reboot tivo

:up:

My TIVO worked fine after Zippering. Then I made the mistake of doing a 'clear and delete all' and re-hacked with Zipper again. Now I cannot record or view recorded shows. Apparently, the error 51 killer did not execute again because it thought it had already been done. I can still Telnet and FTP into my TIVO, but I cannot find the '51killer.tcl' file to execute it. Where can I find the file to execute?

[slydog75]

You should be able to type it in and have it run right from where you first log in without changing directories to it. Just follow the directions in the quote exactly without worrying about finding the file.

[JWThiers]

Could someone explain why any discussion of extraction is forbidden in this forum? According to the Wiki definition, it involves copying a program from a Tivo to a computer or another Tivo to create a DVD, etc. I can already copy a program from an unmodified Tivo to a DVR. What is so different about copying that same program via FTP to a computer hard drive that we can't discuss it?
The directv models do not support ANY networking whatsoever. The act of hacking these models (which is what this particular thread is about, but doesn't explain why SA models are not allowed.) is allowed because we are not doing anything which would potentially qualify as theft of service we are just adding functionality. Actually all the code that is needed is in the 6.2 software, the hack just enables it. The SA models have networking built in. The ability to copy to a PC was long in coming and does come with some limits, tivo controls what and how can be copied to an extent, and I suppose there could be a flag to inhibit this ability on a case by case basis. So extraction as defined by the terms of use by this forum is probably something along the lines of "any UNAUTHORIZED copying of content to a PC." The only Authorized way to copy content to a PC is through Tivo-To-Go. If you don't use TTG to transfer to the PC you are in effect stealing service (or control of HOW the transfer occurs).

I own a DTivo so this affects me personally. If I could have the functionality of an SA tivo has out of the box I probably wouldn't hack. Do I agree with this policy of DirecTv not to allow HMO or TTG nativly? Lets just say I feel it is the realm of "Fair Use" as long as I am not giving the content of selling it I don't have a problem.

[bengalfreak]

Does the new upgrade software on DTivos still have the necessary MRV/HMO code?

[ForrestB]

Does the new upgrade software on DTivos still have the necessary MRV/HMO code?

New Tivo software? 6.2 for the series 2 SD DirecTivo's was released about 1.5 years ago and 6.3 for the HR10-250 was released about 3 months ago. They both have the MRV/HMO code (disabled). I haven't heard anything about new Tivo software.

[dswallow]

New Tivo software? 6.2 for the series 2 SD DirecTivo's was released about 1.5 years ago and 6.3 for the HR10-250 was released about 3 months ago. They both have the MRV/HMO code (disabled). I haven't heard anything about new Tivo software.
6.3/6.3a/6.3b for the HR10-250 does not have MRV code; no multi-room video support code exists to try to enable with a hack.

[Ilovetorecord2]

smartftp connects, filezilla does not

neither one downloads

What gives?


hawk
Been playing around with my tivos and slowly learning. Don't know how many times I have to install and reinstall on my drives. Still don't have everything working.

Try Internet Explorer to view. Had same problems trying to view my tivo as I cannot remember what is on what as each of my tivos has a different configuration. Guess I will need to make them the same so that the problem of what is on what is not a problem.

[SteveTrek]

Hi

I followed the installation instructions for the Zipper and created the zipper_universal_CD.iso. I burned the image to CD and began installing it as per instructions. However, neither busybox.tar nor rbautch_files.tgz were expanded onto the new tivo drive (new unformatted 500 GB Seagate drive). I mounted the new drive in my test computer and tried to manually gunzip rbautch_files.tgz. It responds with "unexpected end of file". This looks like a dos to unix problem but the busybox files were not copied either! Here is some of the installation output:

Copying Busybox...
Disabling firewall...
Copying author file...
Copying hacks to tivo drive...

cp: Read error: INput/output error

Copying hacked kernel to tivo drive...
vmlinux.px.gz: 40.4% -- replaced with vmlinux.px
Will you use a wireless adapter: N

gunzip: /tivo/hacks/rbautch_files.tgz: unexpected end of file

more...
-------------------------
Eventually I got: Success! Your drive is now hacked. Install in your tivo & boot.

When I looked at the rbautch_files.tgz with 7-zip on my winXp box, it looks ok and lists the tar file. I can then list the tar file contents and it looks ok. However, when zipper_isomaker.bat ran and put it into the iso image, the installation aborted. I don't know where busybox.tar is copied, but I assume some similar problem happened.

How can I fix these problems? I copied a dos2unix exe to floppy and then copied it to /usr on the tivo drive and ran it on the tgz file but gunzip complains that it is now corrupted.

Please help.

[MidnightRider]

Hello all: here's a question I haven't found an answer for here or on the "other" forum:

I have a HR10-250 that I had previously hacked with the Zipper. I've also expanded to use a 2nd hard drive.

I used the Slicer to upgrade to 6.3a, then (when released) 6.3b. During the 6.3b process, something happened ... upon reboot (and subsequent reboots) although I have network connectivity (can see network lights, ping and get response from the tivo) I have no TWP, telnet or serial access (serial says connected but no bash prompt ... at any speed). For all intents and purposes other than 'ping', it's like I've never hacked the thing.

My question is this: when I pull the drive(s) and re-zipper, do I need to install both drives in the pc or can I just install and zipper the "main" (primary) drive? Put another way, are there any special considerations I need to make since I'm using two drives?

Happy New Year!
MR

[MidnightRider]

Hi

How can I fix these problems? I copied a dos2unix exe to floppy and then copied it to /usr on the tivo drive and ran it on the tgz file but gunzip complains that it is now corrupted.

Please help.

Steve ... you didn't say but I assume you copied over the original TIVO stuff? I think the Zipper only does the hacked kernel stuff and not everything.

Either way, I've never tried this stuff with an unformatted drive; I suggest formatting the drive FAT32 and starting over. I've done four DTIVO's this way with no issues (excepting previous post, but that ain't the Zipper's fault).

MR

[SteveTrek]

Steve ... you didn't say but I assume you copied over the original TIVO stuff? I think the Zipper only does the hacked kernel stuff and not everything.

Either way, I've never tried this stuff with an unformatted drive; I suggest formatting the drive FAT32 and starting over. I've done four DTIVO's this way with no issues (excepting previous post, but that ain't the Zipper's fault).

MR

Everything else worked ok. The partitions have been setup correctly and all other files have been copied correctly. After some more investigation, it turns out that busybox.tar did extract correctly and was located at /mnt/busybox. So the only file that was corrupt was rbautch_files.tgz. I determined that the first error was copying the file to the harddrive and the 2nd error was failure to gunzip it. I tried dos2unix on it and it still fails to extract. I tried dos2unix on it before making the CD and it still fails. Not sure what to do at this point.

Does anyone know if you can just re-run the zipper cd on the same disk after the zipper script was run? Will this just wipe out any previous files and partitions and create them new again?

[smudley]

Time to break in that serial cable. Check out the wiki troubleshooting section especially Starting here. (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Serial_Cable.2C_the_best_pie ce_of_insurance_to_have)

Well, get yourself a cup of coffee, this is going to be long. :eek:



I went to "Network adapter not working - Lights are on but no ones home" and ran tivosh net-status.tcl and I got this error message: "Didn't find network with default = 1, exiting . . ."
Ran sh net-launch.sh and got the same error as in #1 above.
Tried to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author file as suggested but it was write protected.
I read the section "Could not open file X for writing" to make the edit mentioned in #3 but when I tried to run rw, it said "command not found".
Then I read "rw and ro don't work, what do I do?" and when I tried running "mount -o remount,rw /" I get this message: "EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended" and "rw" or "ro" still do not work.


So I'm at a dead end not knowing what to do next.

I followed the Zipper instructions to the letter and there were no errors that I saw and the script indicated that the install was successful.

What is wrong with my setup?
The Wiki with the trouble shooting tips is great and I'm sure they have worked or they wouldn't be there.

Oh BTW, when my DTivo is booting, I get this error:
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: fakecall.tcl: command not found . . .",
so I'm afraid that my Dtivo will get "bricked" if it's not running so I've been running it manually.

Thanks for any more of your help!
Happy New Year to you and yours!!

[Lord Vader]

I used the Slicer to upgrade to 6.3a, then (when released) 6.3b. During the 6.3b process, something happened ... upon reboot (and subsequent reboots) although I have network connectivity (can see network lights, ping and get response from the tivo) I have no TWP, telnet or serial access (serial says connected but no bash prompt ... at any speed). For all intents and purposes other than 'ping', it's like I've never hacked the thing.

Welcome to the club. When I upgraded to 6.3b, I lost ALL connectivity and all my hacks, including the ones implemented when I ran tweak.sh. I had to start from scratch and re-image the drive completely. However, I stayed at 6.3a. I'm not going to go through all that inexplicable BS of going to 6.3b and lose everything again!

[temp357]

Does zipper install tivoftpd?

[sk33t3r]

Does zipper install tivoftpd?


The answer you are seeking it here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680)

[SteveTrek]

Here's some help for those who get

"tivo/hacks/rbautch_files.tgz unexpected end of file" errors

After some experimenting, it seems that miso.exe may be corrupting the rbautch_files.tgz file. You can unzip it fine before, but not always after, running zipper_isomaker.bat. Maybe it's the number of nested directories? Don't know.

Anyway, this worked for me, and resulted in no errors.

1. Build the zipper_universal_CD.iso as usual.
2. Use an ISO utility like MagicISO to delete rbautch_files.tgz file from the .iso image
3. Replace rbautch_files.tgz back into .iso with a known good copy.
4. Burn the modified zipper_universal_CD.iso
5. Ta da !


I tried this and I still get unexpected end of file errors.
Where can I download a "good" rbautch_files.tgz?

[JWThiers]

I tried this and I still get unexpected end of file errors.
Where can I download a "good" rbautch_files.tgz?
Download the zip file for the zipper, it is included there.

[JWThiers]

Well, get yourself a cup of coffee, this is going to be long. :eek:



I went to "Network adapter not working - Lights are on but no ones home" and ran tivosh net-status.tcl and I got this error message: "Didn't find network with default = 1, exiting . . ."
Ran sh net-launch.sh and got the same error as in #1 above.
Tried to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author file as suggested but it was write protected.
I read the section "Could not open file X for writing" to make the edit mentioned in #3 but when I tried to run rw, it said "command not found".
Then I read "rw and ro don't work, what do I do?" and when I tried running "mount -o remount,rw /" I get this message: "EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended" and "rw" or "ro" still do not work.


So I'm at a dead end not knowing what to do next.

I followed the Zipper instructions to the letter and there were no errors that I saw and the script indicated that the install was successful.

What is wrong with my setup?
The Wiki with the trouble shooting tips is great and I'm sure they have worked or they wouldn't be there.

Oh BTW, when my DTivo is booting, I get this error:
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: fakecall.tcl: command not found . . .",
so I'm afraid that my Dtivo will get "bricked" if it's not running so I've been running it manually.

Thanks for any more of your help!
Happy New Year to you and yours!!
I don't drink coffee but a diet coke would be nice thanks.

We will do this one step at a time. First make sure that the /hacks directory is on the tivo. That will at least give some assurance that zipper at least partially ran.

Next redo mount -o remount,rw / the warning message you get is normal.
Then cd /etc/rc.d
dos2unix rc.sysinit.author
mount -o remount,ro /
Next try rebooting and report your results. If this works somehow your author file got into dos mode and needs to be in unix.

[bengalfreak]

New Tivo software? 6.2 for the series 2 SD DirecTivo's was released about 1.5 years ago and 6.3 for the HR10-250 was released about 3 months ago. They both have the MRV/HMO code (disabled). I haven't heard anything about new Tivo software.

It seems that non-zippered DirecTivos were recently afflicted with bad guide data causing many wishlists to not record properly. Since it only seemed to affect non-zippered/non-hacked DTivos, I assumed there was a new software download that zippered units did not upgrade to. I guess I was wrong?

[ForrestB]

Bad Guide data has affected both stock and Zippered DirecTivo's (including my own Zippered units). I've seen no discussion saying this was caused by a software update.

[temp357]

The answer you are seeking it here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680)

I don't think that link answers my question. I do not see mention of any osftp functionality. Does the PVRUpgrade with Enhancements or zipper include tivoftpd or any other osftp server. All I have been able to gather is that busybox.rar includes tftp, ftpget, and ftpput? Does tivotools need to be loaded in addition to busybox for this?

[smudley]

I don't drink coffee but a diet coke would be nice thanks.

We will do this one step at a time. First make sure that the /hacks directory is on the tivo. That will at least give some assurance that zipper at least partially ran.

Next redo mount -o remount,rw / the warning message you get is normal.
Then cd /etc/rc.d
dos2unix rc.sysinit.author
mount -o remount,ro /
Next try rebooting and report your results. If this works somehow your author file got into dos mode and needs to be in unix.

I'm naming my DTivo Murphy!

Yes, I do have the /hacks directory.
I did all the steps mentioned above and the error I get while booting was at the end:

"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Permission denied"

and I have no bash prompt.
Is it time to punt? lol

Well, I punted.
I re-ran Zipper from my Linux computer and that wasn't any different.
I ran mount -o remount,rw then tweak.sh and for the first time I saw the script run!!!
I answered the prompts and it turned on some options and fixed fakecall.

But I still have no stinkin' USB WIFI NIC.

I went back to your troubleshooting tips and made the edit in "author" and rebooted and still no USB WIFI NIC.

I ran ifconfig eth0 192.168.211.211 netmask 255.255.255.0 just for grins
and received this message:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

My USB NIC has a power lite on so how do I know if the drivers are being loaded?

I see a drivers folder in the enhancements folder and all it has is 4 drivers*.tqz in it. Should they be unpacked?

What should I do next? :confused:

[tibo]

Temp357, see this thread http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4725284#post4725284

it helped me a lot

[rbautch]

I don't think that link answers my question. I do not see mention of any osftp functionality. Does the PVRUpgrade with Enhancements or zipper include tivoftpd or any other osftp server. All I have been able to gather is that busybox.rar includes tftp, ftpget, and ftpput? Does tivotools need to be loaded in addition to busybox for this?The Zipper includes busybox.tar, which contains tivoftpd. The Zipper installs it in the /busybox folder. If you did not use the zipper to hack your tivo, the busybox.tar archive that I compiled is also available from the tivo utilities link in my signature.

[temp357]

thanks a million :)

[BigBoy_67]

directions.

I beleive I am following the Zipper directions exactly as they state, and when trying to us Zipper on a Phillips DSR 7000, running 6.2, I awswer a few questions and everything seems to be going good, then i get the following error:


cp: /cdrom/s2_kernels/3.1.5/vmlinux.px.gz : No such file or directory
Hacked Kernel not found on Zipper CD.


I was doing this on my previously expanded drive 120GB which is the master drive with a 120GB slave drive also attached, and did not use or download the Instantcake, thus I did not install the image on the Zipper ISO.

NOW my drive won't boot up, and I hope I didn't lose all my recordings.

Any help would be appreciated.

[rbautch]

directions.

I beleive I am following the Zipper directions exactly as they state, and when trying to us Zipper on a Phillips DSR 7000, running 6.2, I awswer a few questions and everything seems to be going good, then i get the following error:


cp: /cdrom/s2_kernels/3.1.5/vmlinux.px.gz : No such file or directory
Hacked Kernel not found on Zipper CD.


I was doing this on my previously expanded drive 120GB which is the master drive with a 120GB slave drive also attached, and did not use or download the Instantcake, thus I did not install the image on the Zipper ISO.

NOW my drive won't boot up, and I hope I didn't lose all my recordings.

Any help would be appreciated.
Are you using the DVRupgrade lba48 boot CD recomended in the instructions?

[BigBoy_67]

Are you using the DVRupgrade lba48 boot CD recomended in the instructions?

In my zipper_tools directory, I have the following iso file I downloaded.

ptvlba48-4.04

It was the free one, maybe that is the problem. Should I get the other one ?



Follow-Up:
I just downloaded the ISO for my model, and everything loaded/installed correctly on the PC, I now will put in tht Tivo and see what happens.

After I put it in Tivo, I was in the "Welcome Powering up/Almost There" endless loop.

[BigBoy_67]

do I get them to be used by the Zipper ISO maker bat file. I created these .bak files to .ISO files, but do they need to be bootable?

[sk33t3r]

I would just restore your images to the drives and then once that is up and running put the drive back in the pc and run the zipper. Then I would make a mfs backup of that. Thats what i did.

[temp357]

HELP! Is there a trick to Networking with Zipper and HR10-250?

Ok, I followed the instruction for the zipper to the letter. I purchased the LBA48 enchanced cd and used it along with my instantcake image (it was labeled SE3 instead of two) and zipper to create the zipper universal boot cd. The zipper of the drive went without incident and it booted up in the tivo with no issues.

Problem is networking.

Linksys USB200M v2 - no link light, nothing
Airlink ASOHOUSB - no link light, nothing

So I think maybe the zipper tweak.sh script needs to run before I can use either adaptor? The instruction for zipper just say plug it in and you should be good to go.

Make a custom serial cable - 115200,8,N,1 no flow control...hmm, no console access

Tried a non zippered drive with 9600,8,N,1 and got a bash prompt so I don't think it's the cable.

so far tried three different things and none seem to be working :(

I started the tivo with a clear and delete and the serial cable works like a champ on the zippered drive (9600,8,N,1)!?! I try to run tweak.sh to enable usb2 and the networking. First thing it does it try to connect to the network to check for the new enhancements disk. Since the networking doesn't work it just errors and stops.

HELP!

thx :)