popehat
09-30-2006, 11:12 AM
Hello all,
I've been reading a bunch of posts, and want to make sure I'm on the right path before I dive in.
I have a Series 2 SA unit which is currently running the stock 40 gig hdd, along with an additional 40 gig hdd. It's started to stutter and I've witnessed a couple of random reboots after a freezing / stuttering condition.
The plan is to replace both drives with a single 250 gig drive, and would like to transfer season passes, current software version, etc, without saving any of my recordings. The current method is to use the MFSTool 2.0 w/ WeaKnees Large Kernel Support boot disc and the WeaKnees upgrade guide.
If I'm understanding the process, here are the steps I believe will need to be followed:
1) hook up both current drives to primary master/slave
2) hook up new drive (250gig) to secondary slave, with CDROM on secondary master
3) boot the PTVupgrade LBA48 Boot Disk and run the following cmdline:
mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdd
The "-s 127" portion of that command should increase the size of swap file, correct?
The one other thing of concern is what part of that command actually increases the capacity of the drive partitions (or adds extra partitions)? Or is that something built-in to the restore?
Thanks all,
-adam
I've been reading a bunch of posts, and want to make sure I'm on the right path before I dive in.
I have a Series 2 SA unit which is currently running the stock 40 gig hdd, along with an additional 40 gig hdd. It's started to stutter and I've witnessed a couple of random reboots after a freezing / stuttering condition.
The plan is to replace both drives with a single 250 gig drive, and would like to transfer season passes, current software version, etc, without saving any of my recordings. The current method is to use the MFSTool 2.0 w/ WeaKnees Large Kernel Support boot disc and the WeaKnees upgrade guide.
If I'm understanding the process, here are the steps I believe will need to be followed:
1) hook up both current drives to primary master/slave
2) hook up new drive (250gig) to secondary slave, with CDROM on secondary master
3) boot the PTVupgrade LBA48 Boot Disk and run the following cmdline:
mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdd
The "-s 127" portion of that command should increase the size of swap file, correct?
The one other thing of concern is what part of that command actually increases the capacity of the drive partitions (or adds extra partitions)? Or is that something built-in to the restore?
Thanks all,
-adam