Stuck in the middle of upgrade...Help?

[Chip718]

Hello. I am in the middle of trying to upgrade a new HDD for my Toshiba RS-TX20 and I am stuck. Since my old TiVo HDD is dead I have the new image, backup.bak, on a DVD

The new drive is Primary Slave and the image disk is Secondary Master (hdc). I typed in:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt and I got back "Block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mount read only. I am not sure if that is correct because I than type:
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdz and it says device not found.

If anyone got any advice I would really appreciate it

[wscannell]

Try this command:

mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdb

I added a / in front of mnt and changed the z at the end to the proper drive name for Primary slave.

[Chip718]

Thanks for the reply, but it didnt work either. I got "No such file or directory."

I also have a copy of the .bak on the C drive if that would help.

[wscannell]

You should be able to access the file. Linux is case sensitive, so the case of the file name matters. Try doing the mount of the DVD as you did before. Then use the command:

ls /mnt

This gives you the list of files on the DVD. If the backup is in a folder on the DVD, then you would also need the folder name.

You could also mount the C drive. It is easiest if the backup file is at the root level on the drive so you do not have to specify the folder names.

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

Note that if you have already mounted the DVD drive to /mnt, this will get an error. Either reboot Linux or use

umount -f -a -r

to unmount the DVD.

[Chip718]

Thanks again for the info. I got so frustrated I just bought the Instantcake file for my Tivo. Since I already wrote to my new drive in my failed attempt to mount the DVD, do you know if I need to reformat the drive before I use the Instantcake?

Thanks again for the replies

[wscannell]

No need to do anything. Both Instantcake and mfsrestore do the proper formatting for the drive. Make sure that you follow the proper connection locations for the drives when using Instantcake. It expects them in certain positions.