Newbie to Tivo needs help.

[petestrash]

I can see the Guided Setup on the TV but I seem to be stuck on "First Setup Call" screen as I am getting a "failed. Service Unavailable message".

Any ideas?

I think you need to make sure that you entered the correct information for your network, this is what you said earlier:

So using the boot CD with ozTiVo_installer_Sony_1.6.2_20080604.iso on it, I turned the PC on which took me to the menu screen as expected. Although there were suspicious message that were scrolling up that were too fast for me to read, it went to the menu screen. So as per instructions:

Update - it was OK.

Select - it was OK (one HD)

Image - it was OK (used 127 MB partition swap for my 80 gig HD)

MFsadd - Only one HD I'm using so I skipped this.

Network - I chose the Turbonet option and pressed <enter> all throughout until the very end. But I don't have this turbonet card so I'm wondering whether I should've skipped this.

The network setting need to match your network for it to work.

From memory the default is DHCP, do you have DHCP enabled on your modem/router?

To run the setup again use the command nic_config_tivo see this page for details.

Peter.