Well after much more work that I ever thought, I have my DirectTV Tivo on our wireless network. The list of steps required went something like this.
- Go to Fry’s buy 120G Maxtor harddrive, Linksys WET11 bridge, Linksys USB100TX ethernet interface
- Download copius disk images from web
- Read web pages on how to do this for days
- Crack open wootens.net server and install 120G drive
- Realize that my BIOS is SO old that wootens.net freaks out with 120G drives
- Spend a day figuring out how to flash a new bios from ASUS
- Crack open Tivo and transplant drive in wootens.net
- Use web CD downloads to hack Tivo Linux kernel
- Realize I just screwed up, because RedHat 7.3 can’t deal with TiVO filesystems
- Spend half a day trying to figure out how to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM aka the BOAT ANCHOR
- Chunk BOAT ANCHOR overboard and go buy a new CD-RW at Office Max for “free” after rebates
- Rearrange all the disk drives in wootens.net and install new CD-RW
- FREAK OUT when the server won’t boot back up after changing all the drives
- Realize that somehow the powerplug came loose from the powersupply, only after disconnecting all the devices I had just added…
- Realize the linux on the boot CD doesn’t allow one to abort into a shell
- Learn all about emedded linux boot images and modify them
- Learn how to make linux boot CD’s after making 5 ‘coasters’
- Finally boot cd into bash, hack tivo, put it on our betwork…