Safe Update 1.1 Step by Step

Originally posted on iClarified, wikified, and renumbered the steps.

Requirements

To follow these steps you will need to have:

• SSH enabled on your AppleTV (I won't get into that but the main page is a good start).

This can all be done with the built in safe update from nitoTV's installation manager: NitoTV#Safe_Update

Step One: IP Address

Make you sure know the ip address of your AppleTV. You can find this in your AppleTV menus under Settings:Network.

Step Two: Download

Download the update from apple. The DMG is accessible from http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg and it weighs in at 179MB (188,072,708 bytes).

Step Three: Send it to the AppleTV

From Mac OSX

• Open a new Terminal window from your OSX Applications:Utilities folder and navigate to the folder you stored the update DMG in;
• Type

   sftp -1 frontrow@apple_tv_ip_address 

  into the terminal window (substituting apple_tv_ip_address with your apple tv's ip address). Note: the password is "frontrow";
• Enter

   put 2Z694-5248-45.dmg 

  The dmg will now copy to your AppleTV. Once transfer is complete type

   bye 

  which will close the sftp connection.

From KDE

• Open Konqueror;
• Navigate to the folder where you put the update DMG in;
• Right-click on the DMG, select "Copy" from the context menu;
• Open a new tab;
• Type

   fish://frontrow:frontrow@apple_tv_ip_address/Users/frontrow 

  in the address bar (again, substituting apple_tv_ip_address with your apple tv's ip address). You may have to accept the apple_tv_ip_address to continue, and you may have to type the "frontrow" password again;
• Select "Edit" from the main menu, then "Paste 1 file".

Step Four: SSH

• Type

   ssh -1 frontrow@apple_tv_ip_address 

  in a terminal window (once more, substituting apple_tv_ip_address with your AppleTV's ip address). You will have to type the "frontrow" password again;
• Next type in

   sudo mount -uw / 

  and if prompted enter "frontrow" for the password.

Step Five: Backing up

Now you can execute the following commands to make a backup of your 1.0 Software.

 mkdir 1.0.backup
 cp -p -r "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Backrow.Framework" ~/1.0.backup
 cp -p -r "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app" ~/1.0.backup

Step Six: Extracting

Now execute the following commands to extract the files necessary from the 1.1 update.

 mkdir 1.1.files
 hdiutil mount 2Z694-5248-45.dmg
 cp -p -r "/Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.Framework" ~/1.1.files
 cp -p -r "/Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.Framework" ~/1.1.files
 cp -p -r "/Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.Framework" ~/1.1.files
 cp -p -r "/Volumes/OSBoot 1/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app" ~/1.1.files

Step Seven: Replacing

Execute the following commands to remove the old files and replace them with the newly extracted ones.

 sudo rm -r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.Framework
 sudo rm -r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.Framework
 sudo rm -r /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
 sudo cp -p -r ~/1.1.files/Backrow.Framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
 sudo cp -p -r ~/1.1.files/AppleTV.Framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
 sudo cp -p -r ~/1.1.files/iPhotoAccess.Framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
 sudo cp -p -r ~/1.1.files/Finder.app /System/Library/CoreServices

Step Eight: Fix 'sleep'

To fix an issue with the sleep fuction no longer working please execute the following:

 sudo chmod u+s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Resources/SettingsHelper
 sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Resources/SettingsHelper

Step Nine: Prevent new upgrades

To make sure the software update doesn't automatically do a full upgrade to 1.1, make it impossible to reach the update server.

 sudo bash -c 'echo "127.0.0.1       mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'

Step Ten: Reboot

Reboot the AppleTV by executing

 sudo reboot

and you should have your AppleTV working smoothly by now...