InstantCake and Preventing new releases

[JoshFink]

Hello, I want to install instantcake but I have a question.

Is there anything in the instantcake build that will prevent new software releases from installing and thus updating to the newer release (if they ever have one) and thus overwriting everything? This is a problem I've had before and I want to make sure it won't happen.

I leave the machines plugged into my network via the cache card.

Thanks

Josh

	InstantCake InstantCake is a DIY software utility used to image a a new hard drive so that it can be used in your TiVo DVR. This is an easy way to repair a TiVo with a defective drive, or to upgrade a TiVo by installing a larger drive in place of the original.

[Lou Jacob]

Originally Posted by JoshFink

Hello, I want to install instantcake but I have a question.

Is there anything in the instantcake build that will prevent new software releases from installing and thus updating to the newer release (if they ever have one) and thus overwriting everything? This is a problem I've had before and I want to make sure it won't happen.

I leave the machines plugged into my network via the cache card.

Thanks

Josh

What make/model of TiVo do you have?

	InstantCake InstantCake is a DIY software utility used to image a a new hard drive so that it can be used in your TiVo DVR. This is an easy way to repair a TiVo with a defective drive, or to upgrade a TiVo by installing a larger drive in place of the original.

[JoshFink]

I have a DSR6000 and a SAT-T60

[Lou Jacob]

Please see the InstantCake Release Notes for full details, specifically this excerpt (which only applies to InstantCake for Series1 DirecTiVo units:

Important Note
If your unit is configured with a drive larger than 137GB, your software has been modified with a special "kernel" that allows the TiVo operating system to recognize all of the capacity of these larger drives. As a result, any updates to the DirecTV software on your unit, could cause problems. With this in mind, we've configured your unit so it will attempt to not automatically receive updates from DirecTV WITHOUT your knowledge. In order to do this, we've configured the system to "think" its making its daily call to DirecTV even though it is not doing it. In addition, we've adjusted your phone dialing prefix and call waiting prefix with the *# characters, just to prevent your unit from accidentally dialing. Naturally, you can still connect a phone line, and if you'd like to have your unit dial out you can do it at any time by editing those characters. With that in mind, we suggest you just leave things be and if you have problems with pay per view events, you can still order them from the DirecTV web site, or just by calling 1-800-DIRECTV.

Again, there is no reason you can't use your unit as you normally do, however we've made these minor changes to give you the option of resisting a future software update without your knowledge. We don't know whether or when DirecTV will release any additional updates, however the chances are that running with your current version is fine for the foreseeable future.

	InstantCake InstantCake is a DIY software utility used to image a a new hard drive so that it can be used in your TiVo DVR. This is an easy way to repair a TiVo with a defective drive, or to upgrade a TiVo by installing a larger drive in place of the original.

[JoshFink]

So.... For any unit other than the ones with a drive larger than 137 we would just change the dialiing prefix?


Thanks