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Hello,
I just upgrade my XBMC in Appletv to b4 and the latest crystalhd driver. I'm using xbmc in AppleTV OS. My broadcom card is new (iSupply) and improves a lot against my old configuration (Crystalhd 156, xbmc Dharma b3, old broadcom bought on ebay). Almost every movie does not produce more than 100 drop frames. I d'ont know exactly what made this progress, but is much better. I'll try the linux (live) instalattion this weekend and post my impressions.
Thanks again for the hard work.
Regards,
Werther
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I don't know if this has been covered but this thread has grown too large to search.
I restored the img file to my 4G buffalo usb stick,ATV boots and the linux logo showed,but it stops at the waiting for partition step.
'fdisk -l' can list the partitions,but gparted saids the stick is empty,no partition was defined.
and I can not mount any of the 4 partitions.
Is my stick not supported?
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I thought a img restore will take care of all the format matter,am I wrong?
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You can view the UUIDs of your drive with the following command:
ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid
And yes /etc/fstab is file that can be editted with vi (sudo vi /etc/fstab).
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2010-10-30, 22:25
(This post was last modified: 2010-10-30, 22:26 by jelleeelco.)
Many thanks for your quick reply Belmore, it worked. 'Free' now shows a swap file!
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I've read through several guides to install either Sam's or Pin's disk image onto the internal AppleTV hard drive using parted and other tools, but all of these methods disable the ability to boot to the AppleTV OS (in case one wants to take advantage of the airtunes or other functionality that xbmc does not offer at this time).
Is it possible to have the atv-linux OS (or at least all the media files such as fanart and thumbs) live on the internal drive, but only boot to atv-linux when the thumbstick is installed? And when the thumbstick is not installed, boot to the original AppleTV OS? It would be a nicety if the AppleTV OS had access to the xbmc library files that atv-linux uses, but this would be secondary.
The reason I want this is so that I have more room for the artwork files with my growing library, and some increased speed with the swap file on the internal drive instead of restricted by USB.