I know i'm being a little slow this morning when...

[chrisd]

... I can't figure out why I need an image of the tivo software in order to upgrade to a new, larger hard drive.

I'm upgrading my tivo and my friends one while i'm at it.. I need to backup my hacks/season passes etc but on my friends one its just a clean install... sooo I'm guessing here that I will follow the instructions from Steve Conrad's excellent guide (http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/tivo/upgrade3.html) in order to do my upgrade, but do i need to follow a different path in order to do my friends? I have the image file ready and waiting (i'm sure I used that the last time I upgraded my hard drive, again i didnt back up any hacks or anything that time), but the only guides I can see make use of the MFSTools2 and not the image...

Can someone give me a quick heads up as to the way to go :up:

[AMc]

For your friends you still need a valid back up as all the system software is needed for Tivo to do anything. If you're going to end up with a clean installation for your friend you should just follow the same steps back up his/her vanilla image and restore the image to the new larger drive.
You could use your backup and then do a "clear and delete everything" from Tivo once you have the drive back in your friend's machine if that saves you some time.

Personally if I had the opportunity to get a vanilla backup then I would. I sometimes think I might like to start again setting up season passes, thumbs etc. from scratch when I eventually replace my disk.

[chrisd]

I thought the image that I have is the tivo system software aswell, no? So I dont need the image at all?

I don't have my friends tivo itself, I just have a new 250gb drive that I am going to setup for him so I can just give it to him put in his tivo in place of his old 40gb drive.

[blindlemon]

Youy are correct that the image you have includes the TiVo software, and that this is required for a clean install.

Just restore your image to his drive using an LBA48-aware boot CD and then run copykern to copy the kernel and intialise the swap.

[chrisd]

I used my backup from the current tivo drive, and installed onto both new hard drives (one for me, one for my friend). On his one I put in my tivo and did a "clear and delete all", and then stuck my new drive in, and all's good.
Yay, more recording time for me....
Cheers all