Here's the output from when I ran it -- attached.

mmmyeah... With the exception that the upgrade file I am trying to use is Alpha 5, it looks EXACTLY the same... Down to the letter...

Post the output from the cygwin window.

Okay, I'll try v3a5 and see what it says.. maybe rob forgot to change the version number on the display. Where are you seeing "alpha3", exactly?

-ml

Here ya be

Looks alright. It should take about one minute or so to complete, not instantaneously. Right?

Where are you seeing "alpha3" ?

I just redid it here with v3a5 and it worked just fine.
Gotta switch it back again now!

Cheers

Yep, it's about a minute... And yes, it says "alpha 3" when it boots up... One thing i did notice though, is that it goes directly into "standby" mode when it turns on...

I was thinking the same thing about rob not changing the label. Is the standby thing a distinguishing feature of Alpha 5?

No, mine says alpha5 on the little text screen during player startup.

The standby is merely due to the upgrader having put the player into standby before applying the upgrade. After reboot, the player simply returns to standby the first time because that's what it was doing before the reboot.

-ml

Mmm... Well, for whatever reason mine seems to not want to get out of Alpha 3 and move on up to Alpha 5...

Maybe I'll try re-downloading alpha 5 and seeing if that helps (doubts it...)

No need. Your alpha5 file is fine, otherwise upgrader would have complained (there's a CRC or checksum or something that it validates).

Try running it again?

Try v2final?

Weird. Windows folks have all the fun.

Ah faaak... Now I tried using the consumer image (was this a bad thing?) and I got a "broken pipe" error... When I tried to re-apply the developer one (which, if you recall, didn't give me any errors - just didn't acctually upgrade it), I get the broken pipe error again...

Arrg....

The only reasons for a broken pipe are if the gunzip/ncftpput executables are not found in the PATH. Did you remember to (re)do the "export PATH=".:$PATH" bit again?

Cheers

Now this is just silly...

I applied the v2.00-final upgrade file and I got NO ERRORS... It booted up, and "lo and behold" it says ALPHA 3 AGAIN!


*Is All Out Of Logical Ideas*

Err.. your player DOES have Hijack installed, right?

Yes. v361

Thanks for asking though

Is there another player on the LAN?

I wish... Got an extra?

(BTW - I've busted out the serial cable and am doing this the long way... We'll see what happens in a few minutes..)

Do this in the cygwin window:

./upgrader --extract car2-whatever.upgrade

Then do this:

ftp your.empeg.ip.addr


pas
cd /dev
put _dev_hda5 hda5
quit

And then reboot the empeg.

I'll give that a shot. It's in the middle of the serial upgrade (I'll make sure to reinstall hijack as soon as it's done) but I'll give that a shot afterwards

Mmm... Well, the whole "serial" upgrade worked like a charm... *Sigh* looks like it's the slow lane for me... Unless you can think of what the problem would have been...

(BTW - I'll try the commands you wanted me to try to see if that helps at all... I guess I'll try downgrading to alpha 3 in that test)

Nothing... Still says (now) Alpha 5... Seems like serial is the way to go for us winblows users

For you, anyway. Others have been using this for some time now.

Cheers