got a TivoNet card from 9thtee.com need help with it?

[willieb9000]

Hey Kris,
I dont have a lot of time, but I am hopin gthis will get you started. 
This is mainly in response to your ftp question. First go to 
http://www.sonnik.com/tivo/download.asp and get the file called 
tivoftpd. This is an ftp daemon for tivo. Save it to your computer. I 
can't tell how far along you are in the process, but I am assuming 
that you are using the tivo boot cd or the like when you hook your HD 
to your computer. 

If you are pinging and bashing, it looks like you are well on your 
way, you can try to transfer tivoftpd through tera term, but I would 
advise against if you still have your tivo cracked open. Mine still is 
and I hacked it 8 months ago:). 

1. Put your tivo hd in your computer and boot with boot cd or disk. 
copy tivoftpd into your hack directory on your tivo drive. If you 
don't have one you should make it using mkdir. Many people use 
/var/hack and many use /hack/bin. plusses and minuses to either. After 
you copy tivoftpd into that directory, you need to typr "chmod +x 
tivoftpd" to make it executable. 

2. Put the drive back in your tivo. Get an ftp prog from online (i use 
download.com). I use smartftp -- works well. After booting 
tivo, tera term in and go to the dir where you saved tivoftpd 
and type "tivoftpd &" it will look like it does nothing. But 
then you can close tera term and connect from your ftp prog using your 
tivo's ip address. Using ftp you can transfer any files you need. Make 
sure you do it in binary mode though and you always need to remember 
to chmod files you want to be able to execute. 

3. One more thing -- I can't tell form your post how far along you 
are, but before you can alter anything on tivo (unless you are using 
/var as your directory) you have to do a "mount -o rw remount /" 
(somebody correct this if my memory is failing...) this allows you to 
write to the drive. Make sure when you are done that you "mount -o ro 
remount /" -- this sets the drive back to readonly which is like 
having a safety on a gun -- nothing will get corrupted in this mode 
becasue no files are writable -- readonly protects tivo's files during 
sudden power losses (and is why you don;t have to "shutdown" tivo like 
you do your computer).

Let me know what else you need and I will try to help. Unfortunately, 
you are going to have to really search for a lot of the stuff 
yourself. Everyone gets a thousand questions a day in the various 
forums and people dont' like to answer questions that have been 
answered before. The forum searches are great and all this stuff is 
pretty well documented. 

Hth,
Willie

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "kriscomach" <biskupiec@h...> wrote:
> How you doing!
> I need some help I got the card and transfered the tivo software 
2.5 
> to the tivo. The way I did this is I took the hard drive out and put 
> it in the computer and loaded it. Then I did like the directions 
told 
> me from the website. From here http://www.9thtee.com/tivonet.htm 
> after that I put it back to my tivo. I then inserted the isa board 
and 
> then the network card. After that I got a chance to ping it and it 
was 
> successfull. Now what I would like to do is us the program 
> extractstream to send the Mpeg and sound files to my computer so I 
can 
> convert to be able to play on computer. I need help if some one can 
> guide me through how to get the extractstream into the tivo? Should 
I 
> insert the tivo harddrive to the computer and insert the file that 
> way? Or should I use a telnet software like Tera Term Pro? That is 
> what I am using now. Also if that person can write a procedure for 
me 
> like setup by step? I would like to understand the Tivo and I see it 
> has a lot of potentional for all of us. Some that we are trying to 
> understand. Please help. 
> 
> P.s can you tell me a good website that maybe have very very easy 
> instructions. that I can follow. so I can set this up. 
> thank you again.
> bye.