FAT bread failed HELP PLEASE

[MiamiTV]

I talked my dad into ordering the TiVoNet package from 9thTee.com, according to instructions to get TiVoNet up and running he created 2 floppy's. One is the "Dylan's Boot Disk", the other being "TiVoNET Floppy Disk"... i guess this is the Worley Method. (Following instructions on Dylan - he also blessed the TiVo drive - was this neccesary? can it be reversed? is this the reason we are having issues?)
Anyhow, the TiVo drive attatched as Primary Slave (I've edited the script file correspondingly)... I pop in Dylan's Boot Disk, Power on the computer, than I enter 'root' and i get a command prompt (#). I swap the Dylan disk with the TiVoNET disk (that has the script and files on it), still following the directions i type:

mkdir /floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
/floppy/script

But here's what happens, and where I get stuck :

found necessary files on //floppy
getting archive utility...
mounting //dev/hdb4 on //mnt and //dev/hdb7 on //mnt7
//dev/hdb4:success
FAT bread failed
FAT bread failed
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
unable to munt partitions -- aborting
unmount: //mnt: not mounted
unmount: //mnt7: not mounted

I have tried switching the TiVo drive to both secondary master and secondary slave (and edited the script to match these settings), but no luck, still the same error!

Any suggestions? Is there any hope?

[Torg]

not knowing exactly what the script has I can only guess. However...

mounting //dev/hdb4 on //mnt and //dev/hdb7 on //mnt7
//dev/hdb4:success

Leads to be think it trying to load the primary slave (hdb). Not the secondary master or slave.

The error you got means it could not find a FAT32 filesystem on hdb7. Since parition 7 of a tivo disk contains a backup of the root partition (4) I guess is it is trying to load both of them to update something (presumably drivers of some sort).

If that is the case, it sure as hell isn't a FAT partition. What is in that script file on the floppy?

[bato]

Sometimes you have a Tivo drive with info in partition 4 and no filesystem on partition 7, without filesystem you can't mount it. Can you continue your process? or this is a 1 script do everything kind?

[bato]

Originally posted by MiamiTV
I talked my dad into ordering the TiVoNet package from 9thTee.com...

Are you sure you have a TivoNet? I believed they were not available since TurboNet was out.

Is easy to find out, with TivoNet you need to plug in a PC ISA card (network card) if it is TurboNet you connect a network cable directly to it and is small.