What is mfstools?
Original Mfstools was written by Steven Lang aka “Tiger” http://mfstools.sourceforge.net. Mfstools is the de facto tools used by everyone including well known TiVo Upgrade vendors. Last stable release was February 20, 2005 and had few bugs in them. Latest codes in CVS, Tiger has moved on to v3 backup and has some problems, doesn’t run and development by Tiger has stopped since then. In the summer of 2006, I was upgrading my TiVo and looked at the CVS codes and was able to come up with a stable version that has two bug fixes (alternate root/kernel size bug and Linux swap v1 signature problem). I”ve added few new features since then and added few tools as documented in the full guide. In the fall of 2006 while chatting w/ Jamie at DealDatabase.com/forum, I decided to create a new Linux Boot CD along with the tools and get it out to people. This Linux boot CD has ATA, SATA, USB support so it’s really flexible. You can use a USB flash drive to store your TiVo images, as well as using a Lap
