Upgrade Tivo using Linux?

[Jakester2K]

So I'd like to upgrade my TiVos, and I have access to a Windows computer. I could do the power-down/plug the drives into IDE ports/power-up/use MFSLive method, or I could use USB-to-IDE adapters and WinMFS -- or any combination thereof. I have plenty of experience with hardware, so master/slave and jumper concepts don't scare me.

What I'm curious about, and haven't seen (found, really) any discussion of, is doing an upgrade using a Linux box. I'm currently running PCLinuxOS on my primary PC and I'm wondering if I could use the USB adapter(s), plop the MFSLive CD in the drive, and just run the necessary commands from a terminal window. I suppose I could reboot to the CD if I really had to, but... well... would I have to?

If this is redundant, could someone please point me to a thread on doing the whole shebang in a true Linux environment?

[dwit]

The Hinsdale method is the closest I've seen.

Hinsdale- How To Tivo upgrade (http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html)

[Jakester2K]

Ok -- I see what you're saying. I could just use the dd command to copy the contents of my current drive to the new one.

But I want to expand the drive as well -- is there any reason I couldn't use

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

with the two drives plugged into USB via the adapters -- from a terminal window in my regular environment?

[HomeUser]

Most of the tools on the MFSLive CD work from Linux I use CentOS Linux here.

[classicsat]

The upgrade Linux works with ext2/3 drives as well as FAT32.