How To

How To

Hard Drive Preparation

• Backup your original Hard Drive Methods of imaging your drive; a key safety measure.
• Prepare a Hard Drive for use in the AppleTV

Alternate Bootstrap

• Boot OS X from an External USB drive without voiding your warranty! (hackint0sh)
• Enabling USB and boot from USB External Hard Drive

General Software Modifications

Services

• Install SSH
  • Create Patchstick: Tiger or Leopard
  • Enable SSH Without Opening the Apple TV
  • Install SSH with Leopard
  • Install SSH without an Intel Mac
• Install SU and VI
• Install Top
• Install ID3V2

• Mount ReadWrite
• Mount a Remote Drive via AFP
• Mount a Remote Drive via NFS
• Mount a Remote Drive via SMBFS
• Mount a Remote Drive via SSHFS
• Mount a Remote Drive from AirPort Extreme
• Automount a network drive
• Enable USB Storage: AppleTV 1.x or AppleTV 2.x
• How to install SlingPlayer on AppleTV
• Enable Bluetooth
• Enable Remote Desktop (VNC)
• Enable Remote Desktop (VNC) After 1.1 Update
• Enable Quartz Extreme and Quartz 2D Extreme (To Speed Up Certain Applications)
• Enable AFP Server (Personal File Sharing)
• Enable WebDAV (Personal File Sharing - requires apache)
• Enable FTP Server
• Enable NFS Server
• Working with ASL (Syslog)
• Correct Time Zone
• XAMMP - Apache/MySQL/PHP5/Perl Howto install XAMMP on the Apple TV
• Configure your ATV as an Xgrid agent
• Install a UPnP server
• How to fix Login Screen of Death LSOD

Settings

• Install System Preferences
• Configure Firewall
• Enable Verbose Boot
• Change Hostname
• Change resolution - please add!

OS Mods

• AppleTV FrontRow on Intel Mac Installing ATV's FrontRow 2.0 UI on a Mac
• Enable Kext Loading
• How To 'Enable' Mouse Cursor/Pointer on the AppleTV
• Removing unused buttons from the Frontrow menu
• Replace Finder

Install Applications

Generally any MacOS 10.4.7/8 application for Intel machines can be installed.

• Firefox
• Safari
• EyeTV

Misc

• Uncompress LZSS compressed files like mach_kernel.prelink
• Connect the Apple TV to a TV with Composite (Monochromatic Picture)
• Connect the 2.5" IDE drive to a USB/FW bridge without having to remove it, use a M/M 2.5" ide adapter from here
• Here are some NTSC color bars to use when calibrating your TV.
• Some of the additional Apple Remote key combinations for the Apple TV
• Idiots Guide to ATV Commands: Idiot's Guide to Basic UNIX Commands
• Get Subtitles working
• Extracting .dmg files on Windows
• Minor variation on preparing a hard drive

Upgrade / Downgrade

• Upgrade to a specific version rather than the latest: Take 2.0 Upgrade
• Upgrade / Downgrade to a specific version with OSupdate