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Old 01-03-2011, 20:57   #3347
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Re: TiVo

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Originally Posted by Andy C View Post
Oh it very well may do, Ben, no idea. I'm sure it's slightly more difficult to gain command line access these days tho.
Damn near impossible I'd say - instead of booting off the hard drive like US Tivos do it boots of flash memory so there's no scope for modifying it (it loads a kernel + a squashfs root and only touches the hard drive for /var and the MFS partition, and possibly /db).

I suspect but haven't proved it that if you put an empty hard drive in there it'll partition and initialise it itself, which is a bonus for upgrades (HD is 30% full already after 2 weeks, so I'm already eyeing up a 2Tb upgrade).
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