I just tried to reply, but it didn't seem to go through. Apologies if I end up with a double post.
In any event, a few weeks ago I installed xbmc on a ATV2 without incident. I have been trying now for three days to install it on another one, and I'm getting the following:
Apple-TV:~ root# apt-get update
Get:1
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable Release.gpg [197B]
Hit
http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable Release.gpg
Hit
http://apt.saurik.com tangelo-3.7 Release.gpg
Get:2
http://apt.modmyi.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Hit
http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable Release
Hit
http://apt.saurik.com tangelo-3.7 Release
Get:3
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Get:4
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable Release [16.5kB]
Get:5
http://apt.modmyi.com stable Release [1341B]
Get:6
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable Release [1619B]
Ign
http://apt.saurik.com tangelo-3.7/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit
http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit
http://apt.saurik.com tangelo-3.7/main Packages
Hit
http://nitosoft.com Release.gpg
Ign
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Release.gpg
Hit
http://nitosoft.com Release
Ign
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Release
Ign
http://nitosoft.com Packages/DiffIndex
Get:7
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable/main Packages [1459kB]
Hit
http://nitosoft.com Packages
Ign
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages/DiffIndex
Hit
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages
Get:8
http://apt.modmyi.com stable/main Packages [2237kB]
Get:9
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex [23.6kB]
Get:10
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable/main 2012-07-12-0212.19+2012-07-12-1330.14.pdiff [1276B]
Get:11
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable/main 2012-07-12-0212.19+2012-07-12-1330.14.pdiff [1276B]
Get:12
http://apt.thebigboss.org stable/main 2012-07-12-0212.19+2012-07-12-1330.14.pdiff [1276B]
Ign
http://apt.modmyi.com stable/main Packages
Ign
http://apt.modmyi.com stable/main Packages
Err
http://apt.modmyi.com stable/main Packages
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Ign
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable/main Packages
Ign
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable/main Packages
Get:13
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable/main Packages [1816kB]
33% [13 Packages gzip 0B]
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
Err
http://cydia.zodttd.com stable/main Packages
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 1861kB in 11min 48s (2625B/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://apt.modmyi.com/dists/stable/main/...ackages.gz HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
http://cydia.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/dists...ackages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Apple-TV:~ root# mkdir -p /Applications/AppleTV.app/Appliances
Apple-TV:~ root#
Apple-TV:~ root# apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
beigelist bsdiff com.nito.updatebegone gawk org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock
The following NEW packages will be installed:
beigelist bsdiff com.nito.updatebegone gawk org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 45.0MB/45.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 1413kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 11.0-4 [45.0MB]
Err
http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 11.0-4
POSIX: Operation timed out
Failed to fetch
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/.//deb/...os-arm.deb POSIX: Operation timed out
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?