Upgrade on Mac OSX using Leopard/Fusion/Ubuntu

[brianatthebeach]

Hi,

Is anyone interested in how I used an image off of an Instantcake iso (you probably can use any tivo image) on Mac OS X Leopard running ubuntu under vmware's Fusion 2? Attached is a screenshot after doing an upgrade on a ptv300. Also successfully did a sony svr2000. I would think you can upgrade most any tivo using this method if you have usb drives that allow you to connect pata or sata drive internally.

Quick overview of what you need:
1 or 2 external USB drives boxes. Mine support pata or sata internally and connect to Mac via built in USB.
Ubuntu 8.04 iso probably 8.10 will work too for mounting as a virtual host in fusion 2
Gparted for formatting usb connected drives from within ubuntu
Mfstools 2.0 to be downloaded to your ubuntu virtual host
image of your tivo that you can drag and drop from your cd/dvd connected drive mounted iso to your ubuntu virtual host(ubuntu desktop)

Brian

[Uncle Oscar]

Brian, I am pretty interested. I have a Mac mini, some drives, and that's it.
I was hoping that perhaps there is a way to go directly through OS 10.6, using my external drives (FW or USB).
I don't think I can afford the VM ware at the moment, and I would like to revive a dormant TIvo (PTV 300)

Then again you may not read this since your original post was from January and it's now november.

Cheers,

Pascal

[GadgetBoyo]

I'd like to know more about doing this. I have Fusion 3 and all the hardware, I just need to know what software I need to get and the steps to image copy my original Tivo drive and how to resote that image to a new larger HDD to install into the S3