Apple TV Patchstick/Testing
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With this stick you can modify your Apple TV without opening the case and
removing the hard disk. It contains files from OS X 10.4.8, and while I
would prefer to see a completely free and Darwin based stick, this is what
is currently available.
This stick is created using the guide on the AwkwardTV wiki (04/16/2007
version): http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick/Testing - all credits go
to the authors there (Mactijn, Dobedobedoh, Hblaschka, Bjdraw, Aholtzma,
Mikew, Skoops and Jason). I just cobbled it together.
This stick will install and activate the Mac OS X ssh server on your device
and also install the Perian Quicktime component (the latter is pretty
useless until you install the Files Plugin for Apple TV). After you
activated ssh, you can simply copy files to your Apple TV and modify it
using tools like WinSCP or PuTTY.
Installation instructions:
bunzip2 the file, it will expand to about 500MB (it contains a lot of
zeroes, so it was highly compressable).
Use the gnu tool "dd" to write the software to a usb stick that is at least
500MB big. This will overwrite everything that previously was on the stick.
For instructions how to do this see this page on the AwkwardTV wiki:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Booting_from_a_USB_Thumbdrive
Warning: dd is a powerful tool, you can easily erase your own hard drive if
you don't use it right.
Have fun.