Need help upgrading old version of busybox

[leeclarke]

Greetings of the season.

I zippered my hr10-250 with a recent image, and busybox 1.2 was installed. It doesn't have NC, which I need for the caller ID. I wonder if anyone has upgraded their busybox install and knows for sure that nothing gets jammed up? If so, do you d/l the busybox tar to the root and un-tar it there? If not, then where?
Tia.........

[Da Goon]

Just unpack a busybox tarball wherever you want it. Just make sure that if your current tar is a link to busybox that you don't delete it first. Something like
mkdir /busybox_new ; tar -xvf busybox.tar -C /busybox_new
rm -rf /busybox
mv /busybox_new /busybox assuming of course they're currently stashed in /busybox.

[leeclarke]

Thanks for that. I got the latest version of busybox and renamed the file busybox.tar. FTP'd it over. Followed the directions, creating busybox_new. I remounted so the thing is rw. Here's the result:

TV Room-TiVo# tar -xvf busybox.tar -C /busybox_new
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Where's the problem?

[Da Goon]

Doesn't look like the archive you were trying to unpack was actually in tar format. Where did you get it from and what was its original name?

[leeclarke]

Got it here:
http://www.busybox.net/
It's original name is busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2
When I click on the filename, however, it is renameed *.tar.tar

[Da Goon]

Oh, ok. That's the busybox source code. It won't do anything at all on your tivo until you compile it for mips. You'll need to either set up a cross compiler and sort all of that out, or grab a precompiled busybox package. Grab the one AlphaWolf posted on ddb, it contains nc.