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<blockquote data-quote="haggard" data-source="post: 63602" data-attributes="member: 183237"><p>Stick and T-G and others go beyond the call of duty when answering posts like this. But we all started from scratch and I tip my hat to those who helped me. </p><p>Here's my pennyworth to barre and hargasser:</p><p>From your postings, I do not think you have read all the threads in this D/B section of the forum. You must do.</p><p>Also you must google for other forums and read those as well.</p><p>You must buy yourself a blank notebook and keep a log/diary of everything you do.</p><p>Make notes of the images you try.</p><p>Go to the official D/B site and download all the instructions on how to flash and read them more than once before you start.</p><p>I assume your box is connected to the internet so it can go immediately for updates and keys. If it isnt, then you are not going to make much progress.</p><p>- Start with the official D/B image and get used to all the menus and controls. This should be the one installed when you get the box. Spend a day or two on this and so you know what the box is supposed to do with a standard image, before you use something with 'hacked' additions. These hacks are essentially brilliant, but so is the space shuttle and look what heppens to that.</p><p>- Move on to an image with extra facilities and there are many of these; ruDream and Hydra are two I have tried and I will work thru as many as I can. So should you. Just make sure, as told to me by others in this forum, that you completely erase the old image before laying in the new one.</p><p>- Try out the menus now with these images installed and explore the blue button. Make the box download things that you want, like softcams and keys. If you talk in the forum, a cam is a pcmcia card that goes in the CI slot; a piece of hardware. A softcam is a cam emu(lator), a piece of software.</p><p>- All the time, you have kept notes so you know exactly which version of e.g. hydra you used and what you were able to achive with it.</p><p>- You might want to google for what are called 'illegal' images, such as ruCannon. Try that and see what happens oin the menus.</p><p>- Have a lot of fun. That's what its all about.</p><p>- When you have tried everything, there will be an image that you found easiest to handle.</p><p>- Finally, you read thru your notes and tell us about any 'funnies' you encountered. Then you have paid something back.</p><p></p><p>But let me say something else.</p><p>If you do not know how to configure a LAN, at home on broadband,</p><p>if you do not know the difference between dchp and manual IP</p><p>if you dont know what subnet mask to apply, not what dsn name to insert, then you learning curve will be very shallow. You may have bought the wrong box.</p><p>If you are going to panic when you have installed an image and nothing works anymore like a frozen LCD or a box that wont boot or respond to the remote, then dont put in a new image until you know extactly what to do under these circumstances. T_G only needed to null-modem once but lesser mortals like us might need it more often. I suggest you should get a null-modem serial cable all ready, just for the rainy day.</p><p>But if you know these things, then enjoy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haggard, post: 63602, member: 183237"] Stick and T-G and others go beyond the call of duty when answering posts like this. But we all started from scratch and I tip my hat to those who helped me. Here's my pennyworth to barre and hargasser: From your postings, I do not think you have read all the threads in this D/B section of the forum. You must do. Also you must google for other forums and read those as well. You must buy yourself a blank notebook and keep a log/diary of everything you do. Make notes of the images you try. Go to the official D/B site and download all the instructions on how to flash and read them more than once before you start. I assume your box is connected to the internet so it can go immediately for updates and keys. If it isnt, then you are not going to make much progress. - Start with the official D/B image and get used to all the menus and controls. This should be the one installed when you get the box. Spend a day or two on this and so you know what the box is supposed to do with a standard image, before you use something with 'hacked' additions. These hacks are essentially brilliant, but so is the space shuttle and look what heppens to that. - Move on to an image with extra facilities and there are many of these; ruDream and Hydra are two I have tried and I will work thru as many as I can. So should you. Just make sure, as told to me by others in this forum, that you completely erase the old image before laying in the new one. - Try out the menus now with these images installed and explore the blue button. Make the box download things that you want, like softcams and keys. If you talk in the forum, a cam is a pcmcia card that goes in the CI slot; a piece of hardware. A softcam is a cam emu(lator), a piece of software. - All the time, you have kept notes so you know exactly which version of e.g. hydra you used and what you were able to achive with it. - You might want to google for what are called 'illegal' images, such as ruCannon. Try that and see what happens oin the menus. - Have a lot of fun. That's what its all about. - When you have tried everything, there will be an image that you found easiest to handle. - Finally, you read thru your notes and tell us about any 'funnies' you encountered. Then you have paid something back. But let me say something else. If you do not know how to configure a LAN, at home on broadband, if you do not know the difference between dchp and manual IP if you dont know what subnet mask to apply, not what dsn name to insert, then you learning curve will be very shallow. You may have bought the wrong box. If you are going to panic when you have installed an image and nothing works anymore like a frozen LCD or a box that wont boot or respond to the remote, then dont put in a new image until you know extactly what to do under these circumstances. T_G only needed to null-modem once but lesser mortals like us might need it more often. I suggest you should get a null-modem serial cable all ready, just for the rainy day. But if you know these things, then enjoy. [/QUOTE]
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