Installing tivo-bin on TiVo

This process will enable the following commands in your TiVo

arp        dd         fold       ls         paste      su         uname
chgrp      depmod     gdbserver  ls-lR      pathchk    sum        unexpand
chown      dir        head       md5sum     pr         tac        uniq
chroot     ed         hostname   mkfifo     rarp       tail       uptime
cksum      egrep      id         modprobe   rmdir      tee        wc
comm       expand     join       nice       sort       touch
csplit     fgrep      kerneld    nl         split      tr
cut        fmt        logname    od         strace     tty

	Instruction	Command to execute

1	If you haven't already created a /var/hack directory, do so now	`cd/var/hack`

2	Download and FTP tivo-bin.tar.gz to your Tivo's /var/hack directory. If you're unsure how to FTP to TiVo, see the TivoHowToFTP page

3	Unzip and extract the archive This process will also create a tivo-bin directory underneath your hack directory It may take a while to do this	`gzip -d tivo-bin.tar.gz` `cpio -idu -H tar < tivo-bin.tar`

4	Fix the permissions on what's just been created	`cd /var/hack/tivo-bin` `chmod 755 *`

	The commands are now execucutable, although it's a little long winded in order to use one of them you will have to (for example ls) do this `/var/hack/tivo-bin/ls`

	So next, we will make the commands available on startup. If you haven't done so already, install the vi editor (it's by far the easiest and much metter than joe!) see the instructions on the TiVoElvisConfiguration page.
5	create a .profile file to enable us to fix the path, firstly set the root file system to read/write	`cd /` `mount -o remount,rw /`
6	Edit the .profile file using vi	`/var/hack/vi .profile` Enter the following into the editor (one line!) `export PATH=$PATH:/var/hack:/var/hack/tivo-bin` & save the file
7	Set the file system back to read only	`mount -o remount,ro /` `sync`
	This will become active next time a telnet session starts

-- AdamWhite - 29 Dec 2005

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