User talk:Massa

Now I'm in the process of installing MythBuntu on my aTV. It's already booting, so I will describe the steps I took:

1. yank the HD from the aTV;
2. put it in USB enclosure on my Kubuntu system;
3. backup the HD:

    # dd if=/dev/sdb | gzip > appletvhd.gz 

4. never forget:

    # sync; eject sdb 

5. in my case, I wanted to upgrade to a 100G HD, too, so I put the new HD on the USB enclosure, and restored the backup:

    # zcat appletvhd.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb 

6. compile newest version of parted (1.8.x) and remove Media partition:

    # ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb rm 4 print 

   (fix the position of the second copy of the EFI table if asked for)
7. put the new HD back on the aTV, make a full restore
8. back to the USB enclosure, remove the Media partition again:

    # ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb rm 4 print 

9. create and name the Linux partitions (XXX is the start of the old partition sdb4):

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb mkpart LinuxBoot ext2 XXX XXX+200M 

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb name 4 LinuxBoot 

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb mkpart LinuxSwap linux-swap XXX+200M XXX+200M+TAM_SWAP 

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb name 5 LinuxSwap 

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb mkpart LinuxRoot ext2 XXX+200M+TAM_SWAP 100G 

    ~/parted-1.8.x/parted/parted /dev/sdb name 6 LinuxRoot 

    mkfs.ext2 -L LinuxBoot /dev/sdb4 

    mkswap -L LinuxSwap /dev/sdb5 

    mkfs.ext3 -L LinuxRoot /dev/sdb6 

10. I'll add the rest later...