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Benedictine · 2010-10-22, 18:31

Hi, I just finished installing Linux on an AppleTV using this guide

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...he_AppleTV

But i tought mounting external usb hdds was included, but i seems not. How can i enable it?

Thanks.

Benedictine · 2010-10-22, 23:21

I've read a lot of topics and came up with the fstab solution. It works for me, but I dont think the average user (my grandpa) would be able to make it work.

Is there any other solution? I've read about the gconf-editor but it didn't work for me.

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

frumpy_uk · 2010-10-22, 23:38

That's odd. I would have thought a usb drive would be mounted during boot.

Are you using a hub? I have had minor problems with my set up which were sorted by using a powered hub. The external DVD drive I have wouldn't work without the powered hub and the usb stick I have to trigger boot into linux was sometimes not being recognised. Powered hub fixed both. Hope that helps.

davilla · 2010-10-23, 04:19

need more info, dmesg, drive format, etc.

Benedictine · 2010-10-23, 07:32

The external HDD format is NTFS.

I turned on ATv and ran the dmesg command, this is the result http://pastebin.com/9MKSbVGm

My current solution is edit fstab and add the UUID of each USB HDD and automatically mount it on a specific folder, but it wont automount an unknown external HDD.

Thanks.

PS. please tell me if you need more information, I'm 50% sure the dmseg command i ran is not what you needed =P I'm not a very prolific ubuntu player.

davilla · 2010-10-23, 15:42

Benedictine Wrote:The external HDD format is NTFS.

I turned on ATv and ran the dmesg command, this is the result http://pastebin.com/9MKSbVGm

My current solution is edit fstab and add the UUID of each USB HDD and automatically mount it on a specific folder, but it wont automount an unknown external HDD.

Thanks.

PS. please tell me if you need more information, I'm 50% sure the dmseg command i ran is not what you needed =P I'm not a very prolific ubuntu player.

Your problem is NTFS format. google "mount NTFS with ubuntu"

Benedictine · 2010-10-23, 18:34

Did it, the common solution is to modify the fstab file (already done that and working like a charm), but I was looking for a way to not to have to ssh in to apple tv every time I want to use a new ntfs external hdd.
I think I'll give up and use network streaming for that.

jules1976 · 2010-10-25, 08:34

Format the disk as fat32, its easier than attempting to use ntfs.
Although you have to use some 3rd party tools to be able to format a large disk as fat32. Windows won't do it.