- Excerpts have been formatted from OzTivo’s Guided Setup
Imaging you Hard Drive
What you should be doing now is downloading the NZ customised images from the nzTiVo images repository and following the menus. These are menu driven install disks which once booted basically guide you through the imaging process. Information about these images is here.
The latest ozTiVo harddrive images are now customised with options for New Zealand in the installation menu. The ozTiVo images have the latest up-to-date files and result in a more stable TiVo. The TiVo ‘Guided Setup’ menu has also been edited to make it more obvious which options to choose when first setting up your TiVo.
Preparing for the Guided Setup
After Imaging the Hard Disk (see above) is complete, you can put the disk into your Tivo. Make sure you set the jumpers back to make it the master drive (if you changed them!). Now you can boot your TiVo.
In order to do the Guided Setup, you must have:
- A TV connected to your Tivo.
- Some form of networking that operational.
- The ‘VCR’ power cable.
- Some form of video input. If you are going to be using your VCR or STB with the Tivo, get it connected now! The same goes if you have a PAL tuner and you are going to use your antenna.
It’s also recommended that you build or buy a serial cable, regardless of what networking you choose to use. If the networking fails, this will be your only way to get “into” the Tivo to diagnose the problem.
Setting up Tivo Networking
Guided Setup won’t work without a network connection to the Internet. This can be difficult to set up (in fact it’s probably the hardest bit of the whole process). You have the following choices: use your Tivo’s built-in modem, or connect your Tivo to another box using PPP, Ethernet or wireless.
The concepts of Tivo networking are described in:
Once you have read that, you can then read one or more of the following OzTivo HowTos:
ChangeYourNetworkCard (Changing to Cachecard, Airnet, Tivonet cards)
NetworkingWithBuiltinModem] – Though it would pay to look at using a Modem in New Zealand.
NetworkingWithXP
NetworkingWithLinux
NetworkingWithOSX
NetworkingWithFreeBSD
NetworkingWithStaticIPAddress
Making the Change to the NZ Emulator Manually
‘NOTE: This is not necessary with nzTiVo images nor with the latest ozTiVo images (v1.6 and later).
(see links at top of the page).
All that is needed for this, is that the Tivo has power, and networking or serial is set up. Once switched on, the Tivo will boot into Maintenance Mode, the OzTiVo logo will appear, and Guided Setup will be shown. We will not be commencing the GS at this stage, a file is needed to be changed on the Tivo’s Operating System first.
Open a session to Tivo via Telnet (Networking) or Terminal (Serial Cable). For more info, see Serial.
If you connect by a network card, you connect to the Tivo’s IP Address that it has been allocated, or to the static address that it has been set with.
See Tivo IP for how to find out your IP address of the Tivo.
eg telnet <tivo’s IP address>
cd /etc
rw changes the filesystem to read/write
nano tclient.conf
scroll down until you see something like this:
# Dennis’ Emulator
126::66.92.222.38:80:::
# This is for the server emulator on minnie.
127::131.244.9.101:80:::
Go to a line above the first emulator entry, but after the 000 entry.
A Hash symbol (shift 3) comments out/ignores the line.
Enter the following on a new line
# NZ Emulator
127::210.48.107.133:8000:::
Then Hash (#) out the emulators you don’t want to use.
NOTE: The minnie emulator is the one used in Australia. We have replaced it with the NZ emulator, so hash out the minnie emulator.
NOTE: These addresses are correct (as at Feb 2006) – but may be prone to change from time to time (rarely we hope). To check this is the current NZ emulator server address, go [http://www.forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=959 here]
NOTE: Do not attempt to install on the legacy emulator it will likely fail. The default emulator for NZ images is on port 8000 not 80.
NOTE: The above assumes you are using a LAN card – If you are using a dialup modem, you should look at using a Modem in New Zealand.
When you’re done editing, hit ctrl-X and type y for yes.
Plug your tivo into the tv via the video out jack on the back. If you haven’t already done so. Type reboot or pull the plug (wait 10 seconds for HDD to spin down).
Running The Guided Setup (“GS”)
The Tivo will go into OzTiVo Maintenance mode again, after a while Guided Setup
will appear:
You’ll see “TiVo Service Terms”
Press ‘select’ to go to next screen
Do not enter your actual postcode when prompted, postcodes to use are listed in the ozTiVo forums.
Sources of Guided Setup Walkthrough Instructions:
- ImageWithScreenShots1.4 (near the end of ImageWithScreenShots1.4) is a walkthrough of the Guided Setup, with a focus on setup for Cable, but includes some Free To Air details from the following OzTivo source. Includes screenshots at important steps. This is the newest NZTivo help.
- OzTivo has a detailed walkthrough of the Guided Setup (including Free To Air and VCR), with many screenshots here, but it may require minor changes to suit New Zealand.
- There is an older walkthrough of Sky / Saturn Digital, Guided Setup Instructions Here: Cable GS. It has no screenshots.
- Free To Air Guided Setup Instructions Here: FTA GS. It has no screenshots
Hidden Menus
Change your cable box, change composite to S-video, re-run Guided Setup, and other exciting things by following the steps in Redoing Guided Setup below.
Redoing Guided Setup
If for some reason the Guided Setup fails (maybe the networking didn’t work), then you should be able to reboot your TiVo and it will retry the Guided Setup again. This is true for releases of the image after rc5. However, if you find that it doesn’t do this, and you need to redo the Guided Setup, then the easiest way is to point a web browser at the TiVo’s IP address and select Enable Guided Setup in PAL from the PAL/NTSC menu. If you don’t have networking working yet, but you can get to the Bash prompt on the TiVo, you can do this command:
[TiVo] # bootpage -p /dev/hda
Note lower case p
The output will look something like this:
root=/dev/hda4 TV_STD=PAL GS=0 netcard=turbonet
The output is the current boot parameters. GS has to be 1 to run Guided Setup or any of the hidden menus on a PAL Tivo, so we have to rewrite the boot params with GS=1. On the other hand is Tivo seems to be stuck in Maintenance Mode, you will want to set GS=0.
If your boot param output is as above, this command would update them to enable Guided Setup:
[TiVo] # bootpage -P ‘root=/dev/hda4 TV_STD=PAL GS=1 netcard=turbonet’ /dev/hda
Make certain to enclose the new params in single quotes. Everything between the quotes should be the same as the output of the first step except the value of GS
Reboot the Tivo for the change to take effect, and keep your eye on the second boot menu. If it says “Maintenance Mode” you will be able to navigate through the menus to get to GS: Messages & Setup, System Reset, Run Guided Setup.
See Post Setup for more configuration.
