I thought I was all set. Got myself a copy of "Hacking the Tivo" by Willaim von Hagen and I thought I was all set to open my Series 2 box.
I figured I'd dip my toe into the waters of Tivo hacking by doing something simple - upgrade my hard drive. Went to the store and got myself a new Seagate 160GB drive to upgrade the stock 60GB drive in the Tivo. Bought some Torx screwdrivers and thought I was all set.
Then I hit The Wall
The book is great. It provides great directions and it even provides a CD-ROM to boot off of to get into a Linux kernel with all the tools. But I ran into a few hitches.
First, the PC that I have doesn't have any empty drive bays. I've got them filled with:
To do a backup of the existing Tivo drive I need to insert two drives - one to hold the backup and the Tivo drive itself. I hadn't counted on needing two drive bays to do this juggling.
Also, it was pretty funny. I never thought about where I'd backup the existign Tivo drive to. I had just though, "Oh, it's small. I'll be able to back it up." It's a strange world when 60GB of data is starting to look small. Anyhow, I don't have anything big enough to hold that data, so I need to go back and buy another drive tomorrow.
Then, I can take out the XP boot disk (in addition to being too small to do the backup, it's NTFS and that's not supported by the software on the BATBD CD), and the CD-RW and then I'd have enough space to do the backup and upgrade to a new disk.
Oof.
Posted by rob at November 18, 2003 10:35 PM