02-10-2006, 03:28 AM
It is quite possible to use a Mac to do the upgrade. I was able to do both of my ReplayTV boxes, and even copied over 40 GB of existing shows to the new 300 GB drives on each one of them, successfully, using OSXRTV_Patch. This was the CLI version, but it was not too hard to do, using term.app and a FW case. The hardest two parts of the job were locating the right information on how to go about using the software, then getting one of my ReplayTV boxes out of a large rack out from under a table in my living room.
It looks like Davester has posted more current information than what I used to do mine a few months ago.
If you have any questions about the process, post them here, or feel free to email me and I can probably help you with it. The CLI process is not that tricky at all, and if there is a GUI app now (which apparently there is, from skimming Davester's links) then that will probably make the job even easier.
I guess the main point I wanted to make is that it is not at all necessary to use a Windoze box to do this, and is probably easier to do with a Mac, IMO, because it is much easier to use FW with a Mac, typically, than to mess with FW on a PC, or have to physically install the drive in the PC case, and use DOS, etc. as used to be the case, at least when doing it with a PC.
HTH
hwystar
It looks like Davester has posted more current information than what I used to do mine a few months ago.
If you have any questions about the process, post them here, or feel free to email me and I can probably help you with it. The CLI process is not that tricky at all, and if there is a GUI app now (which apparently there is, from skimming Davester's links) then that will probably make the job even easier.
I guess the main point I wanted to make is that it is not at all necessary to use a Windoze box to do this, and is probably easier to do with a Mac, IMO, because it is much easier to use FW with a Mac, typically, than to mess with FW on a PC, or have to physically install the drive in the PC case, and use DOS, etc. as used to be the case, at least when doing it with a PC.
HTH
hwystar