How To
Contents
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
- 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.
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