Hi Christina
If you have a network and DSL already then what you are referring to does not apply as you won't be using the internal modem in the TiVo to dial out. Instead you will be using the network card and it does things differently.
In regards to your ability here's the steps I take when setting up TiVo's:
Put blank hard drive in PC as secondary master device
Make sure PC can boot from CD
Put OzTiVo CD into PC
Boot PC
Do what's instructed in the how-to document
Pull hard disk out of PC
Put hard disk into TiVo
Make sure Turbonet card is installed
Turn On TiVo
Follow on-screen menus as per the how-to document
Job done
This is assuming that your XP machine can dish out DHCP IP addresses as that is the native mode of the TiVo ethernet device. You can set it to a static IP and that is covered in another how-to document.
If you are talking about getting the second audio input mod done and don't have anyone local in mind to do it, then you can always send me the hard disk with the TiVo and I'll do all the dirty work for nothing.
As for what you require hardware wise, you are going to need:
* A Series 1 Stand-Alone type TiVo.
* One or two hard drive brackets depending on if you want one hard drive or two. I would get a second bracket anyway - just so later on if you want to add a second hard disk you can do it right as there is no other easy way of securely mounting it otherwise.
* Network card. Either Turbonet or Cachecard. You can run a cachecard with no RAM and just pop the RAM in later if you like. Personally I wouldn't bother with the RAM but that's just my opinion. I'm sure others will disagree.
I'm sure you have more questions, but luckily the OzTiVo group have covered pretty much everything that gets asked (and sometimes the more obscure Q's as well!) in how-to documents. These how-to documents I mention are all on the OzTiVo website off the left hand sidebar menu:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
As to buying a TiVo maybe your starting point is the page listed below and you can take it from there:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/vie...TiVoAndAddsOns
Cheers
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