My understanding is that the display of the time-stamps in the guide information (and now playing list) will be off by one hour, but that all of your season passes will record properly.  The only exception to this rule, that I am aware of is if you have manual recordings scheduled; those will need to be adjusted.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

Mike -

Slicer is not intended to be included with the pre-built PTVnet kits.  A version of it may have slipped into the release, but I'm not sure which one or when that happened.  So if its in there, bonus for whomever.  But its really not something we intended to release or include.  Sorry.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

I'm confused. I actually got a RoboCall from DTV saying that my box will be upgraded for the DST problem in the next day or 2. I've got a 250MB drive on a Sony T60 that was built with Instant Cake. Now does that mean by default that upgrades from DTV are disabled and my system won't be overwritten by the DTV upgrade?

I checked the SWSystem in the MFS and sure enough there is a 3.5b sitting there waiting to be installed.

I'm used to having to dismantle the bloody unit every time DTV does an upgrade and having to redo the mods for the network card and all that. But this is the first upgrade I've faced since I upgraded the disk and installed Instant Cake. And unless I'm terribly mistaken, the last upgrade blew away folks using LBA48 support until it could be fitted back in. Is this different?

I'm hearing folks talk about how they avoided problems by installing the new release manually and then overwriting with the old LBA48 kernel.

 Is it as simple as typing (if your active boot partition is 6)

 dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hda3 

as was reported in http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/...

Didn't seem to matter what I did - it went into

"installing new software from the tivo service this will take a few minutes" 

 and stayed there for an hour.

 Unplugging and replugging it in really screwed it up - now its in a "Powering up" restart loop.

 Oh well, have to pull the drives and copy the kernel and system partitions across again.

 It would have been nice to get some advice on this in advance.  How many Instant Cake users are going to get thumped this weekend?  I was trying to avoid the disaster when the daily call was made Sunday.

 Annoyed that a chunk of my Saturday is now "dismantle TivO, dismantle PC; boot Linux; dd...; reassemble TiVO; reassemble PC"

Ok you guys are WAY over my head.  I bought the upgrade hard drive 6 months ago and it works fine and as advised its never been hooked up to the phone.  I dont use any of the extra features, network, cake, slicer, etc. - its just a normal TIVO for me.   Now the automated call from TIVO today.  Am I in trouble??  Do I need to hook up my phone line??  Wont that result in Directv scribbling on my PTV disk?  What happens if I dont hook up the phone? Thanks!

OK.  Here is the sequence of what I did if it helps someone else.

Sony SAT T-60 with Instant Cake LBA48 on 250MB disk drive.

 My goal was to avoid having the DST upgrade blow away the kernel and possibly lead to data corruption.  So I took the following pre-emptive measures.

Copied Active system and boot partitions (HDA7 & HDA6) to inactive partitions so that they were mirror images with dd.

Fixed fstab in copied partition.

Unfortunately, when I "made the phone call" which on my system is done over the internet, and then the system rebooted - it hung on the "Installing software message..." and I had to unplug it which is probably what caused what I saw next.

So I pull the drives and the active partition HDA7 is EMPTY! but (Thank God) the inactive partition HDA4 has the mirror image that I copied to it.

So now I dd if=/dev/hda4 of=/dev/hda7 bs=1024, fix the fstab, and then put the drive back into the tivo.

Turn it  on, welcome screen, Installing software screen, and it then boots up OK.  I'll have to check whether other things look right (like if my kernel did get preserved properly).

Just tried TWP and Telnet and they don't work so I guess I have to pull the drive back out and run the nic configuration stuff.  But otherwise it is running and receiving. 

w4kh said: OK. I clicked on "MFS", and then clicked on "SwSystem"... this is what I see:

Directory listing of /SwSystem
Name	Type	Id	Date Time	Size
6.2-01-2-151	tyDb	60893	03/23/05 12:25	724
6.2a-01-2-101	tyDb	1545383	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-121	tyDb	1545387	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-151	tyDb	1545388	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-301	tyDb	1545389	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-321	tyDb	1545390	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-351	tyDb	1545391	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-381	tyDb	1545392	02/17/07 03:34	700
6.2a-01-2-3F1	tyDb	1545393	02/17/07 03:34	700
ACTIVE	tyDb	60893	03/23/05 12:25	724

Based on my reading of the instructions for slicer, *WHICH* of these do I need to "slicer"? All? First? Last? Some? Given that the sizes are the same, I suspect the last is hte one to install/slicer but how do I know? Geez, and I used to feel competent! ;) 

Use 6.2a-01-2-151. Your ACTIVE Id is 60893 and 60893 is associated with 6.2-01-2-151 (top line).

151 is the image for your kind of DTiVo. The other files are for other types of DTiVos. You get all the slices for all DTiVo brands, you only need the one for your brand. 

------------------------------<br />Mike<br /><br />3 x DSR-704 (250 GB, 250 GB, 160 GB; PTVNet, superpatched, tytools, mfs_ftp, bufferhack)<br />1 x R-15 (not active)

Okay I downloaded the slicer 1.7 from DVRupgrade last night and went to work on my DirecTV Tivos. I found the upgrade went just as I have read from others without any problems. I did lose TivoWebPlus and Superpatch which I expected but I was able to go in and FTP the Superpatch 6.2a patch in and TivoWebPlus V. 1.3.1 and they came back up with no problems.

My issue is that four of my D Tivos received DirecTVs SW upgrade but one did not. I do not have a practical way of running a phone line from the Tivo to a phone jack. Why did it not receive the update via the satellite like the other four?(None are connected to a phone line). How or what can I do other than connecting a phone line to get the DirecTV slices downloaded via the satellite? I thought I saw somewhere a code I could put into the Tivo box so it would receive the update. Any help is appreciated.

2 Phillips DSR704's InstantCaked 6.2a-PTVnet -200GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 3 Hughes SD-DVR40's-InstantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet -250GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 1 Hughes HDVR2 IntantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet- 2 40GB HD's-ONLY for MRV storage.

Okay I found and downloaded the slices from eMule. I FTP'd them into "var/packages/" I then tried to use  "dbload /var/packages/*.slice" but it errored out with "bash: dbload: command not found".

Anyone have any Ideas how I get dbload or where it should be in my system? I tried to look in quite a few of the file folders. Any Idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks

2 Phillips DSR704's InstantCaked 6.2a-PTVnet -200GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 3 Hughes SD-DVR40's-InstantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet -250GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 1 Hughes HDVR2 IntantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet- 2 40GB HD's-ONLY for MRV storage.

Awesome. I was able to get dbload to work. Then I ran slicer on the last of my five boxes that did not get the DirecTV SW upgrade. It worked perfectly. I then re-applied superpatch-67all then ran superpatch-62a. Once I rebooted I still had telnet and FTP. I then re-applied TivoWebPlus 1.3.1. So MRV,HMO, telnet,FTP, are all working. I will make sure that the superpatch-62a is working good once a program is recorded so I can transfer it. Thanks to all for all the GREAT support and info.

2 Phillips DSR704's InstantCaked 6.2a-PTVnet -200GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 3 Hughes SD-DVR40's-InstantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet -250GB HD's-MRV-HMO my MP3's, 1 Hughes HDVR2 IntantCaked 6.2a and PTVnet- 2 40GB HD's-ONLY for MRV storage.