Recent content by Dog's dinner

Thanks oldfart for the new info. I haven't been back to see whether anybody answered the last post until today. I'm rationing my Dreambox experience. Two hours a week. I've reformatted the CF card. Windows offers two fat formats, fat32 or just plain fat (with no number attached). I select...

Thanks for the tip. Now fdisk -l has never listed a CF device (I've run the command about 20 times over the past few weeks). I also ran a useful command, dmesg. It's s'posed to tell you what devices Linux discovered during bootup. I then ran lsmod to detect modules. Now I'm sure the results of...

Just cottoned on to what you meant by reading the BA instructions. I have read them - twice I think, and dipped into them several times to find the command strings. I bought a new card reader today, which worked, and I formatted the original cf card. The second card didn't need formatting...

Thanks oldfart (!), just the sort of help one needs, practical and to the point. Yesterday evening, after resetting again to factory standards, I decided not to ftp my settings, just to see if the machine worked better. Instead I downloaded the channels via the conventional route, built up my...

Thanks to Topper and Tivù for replying. The dreambox people have indeed published a manual, but since the first couple of days of ownership, it hasn't really helped, apart from actually installing a hard drive and plugging it in. Most of the instructions, which seem at first glance pretty...

Thanks for the tip, Gerry55. I bought a CF card reader today from our local Clas Ohlsson. Big mistake. The instructions say, don't bother to hunt for a driver if your operating system is Windows XP or 2000. But if you do want a driver, the address they give you to find it doesn't get you...

Update: I removed the hard drive from the Dreambox and installed it on a computer. Apart from not having a drive name (letter) Windows disk manager gave it a clean bill of health. Installed back into the Dreambox, clicked on Hard disk in setup/system, and the green screen of "I'm giving up...

A new factory reset (about 5 in fact today) because clicking on setup>harddisk caused the Dreambox to flash its green screen ("sorry, software problem") and reboot. At first I thought the factory reset flash (in the pan in my case) was corrupt. Checking the 'information' tab, however, provided...

Sorry about the duplicate thread - it was a mistake. The browser froze for about 5 minutes when I pressed "submit new thread". I thought at first that it hadn't registered so when the picture unfroze, I banged on the 'submit new thread' button again. When I saw that the new thread had been...

I'm posting a screenshot of the log posted by Dreambox Control Centre of my latest attempt to install Barry Allen - this time on a brand new CF card inserted, by the way, while the Dreambox was disconnected from the mains. Neither the Dreambox or control centre seem to have sensed the presence...

If like me you've never thought about or even knowingly touched an SD card or CF card and haven't a clue what they do, read on. I forked out £35 for an SD card intending to install barry allen on it to enable multibooting or multi-images. I had posted a question wondering whether it was a good...

Thanks for taking the time to answer, fazers! Not quite sure what you mean when you suggest "change image flash". If it means installing a new image over the present one (the normal Dreambox image, not nabilo or anything), than I'd prefer another solution if possible. I did that at least four...

Due to certain issues (which I won't go into here), I removed Barry Allen from the cf card, along with all the images (which Barry Allen sometimes found, sometimes didn't). At least I thought I did. Even though Barry Allen was absent from the list of extensions, the red Barry Allen flash...

I've been busy the past few days, but thought an update might be due on progress in the BarryAllen department. I managed to transfer the various nfi files to the correct place in the Dreambox. It took me a few minutes (felt like hours) after that before I realised they had to be extracted. That...

Thank you! This is the type of advice I really appreciate.