Installation guide
If the problem returns after re-imaging, you should try a different drive.
Heat can be an originating cause of hard drive problems. Make sure your ReplayTV has adequate ventilation and that the fan is
running (40XX and later models all have fans). Once a drive suffers damage caused by overheating, it will need to be replaced.
• RTVPatch using Linux without Windows 2000/XP
RTVPatch single drive upgrade documentation (Win9x/Linux Boot Floppy Disk)
RTVPatch dual drive upgrade documentation (Win9x/Linux Boot Floppy Disk)
There is also an RTVPatch/Linux boot cd iso image available by clicking here, or directly from this site by clicking here.
Information from FlipFlop about the boot CD is available here, or view the original post here. Some brief documentation
about the cd image is available at SourceForge by clicking here.
The boot cd boots up to a login prompt. You can type "root" (without the quotes) and hit enter, then type "rtvpatch" (without
the quotes) and hit enter to bring up the RTVPatch program. For more information on running RTVPatch in Linux, see the
Win9X/Linux boot floppy documentation noted above.
• Following are instructions from AVS Forum members gatomon and miscrms regarding ReplayTV drive upgrades using a
Mac. RTVPatch 2.51 for the Mac is available here.
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From gatomon:
pretty easy on a mac...
to upgrade your replaytv to a larger drive. I've done it many times without failure.
First, you need:
(1) a new, large drive
(2) some method to connect it to your mac (I use a firewire enclosure)
(3) a copy of the ReplayTV software, RTV_FILE.rtv, on the hard drive of the mac (for a 50xx replaytv, download
RTV_5K_FactoryReset_140.rtv to your drive). [Images are available here: Which image do you use?]
To prepare the drive for the replaytv, do the following steps:
Step 1 *** check for disks:
In terminal execute the command:
> diskutil list
This will show you what drives are connected to the computer. From the output you can see what drives are the apple
computer drives and which drive is the drive you want to prepare. The drive will be known as "/dev/diskN" where N is an
integer. For example, if the output of diskutil list looks like:
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: Apple_partition_scheme *55.9 GB disk0
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 KB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Kiki HD 55.8 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: type name size identifier
0: *186.3 GB disk1
then the computer's disk is disk0 and the new disk is disk1.
Step 2 *** write image to disk:
If you are using RTV_5K_FactoryReset_140.rtv, cd to the directory where this file is located, then in terminal type: