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- Sam.Nazarko - 2011-04-23 01:08

Try md5sum, check result -- you'd have to parse gunzip output to md5sum, as compression won't match.

Code:
mount -t hfsplus -o rw,force /dev/sdb3 /mnt/atv
cd /mnt/atv

Put that in a file called patchstick.sh on /dev/sdb1 and it will auto mount and change the path.

- da-bitsch - 2011-04-23 19:23

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Did you create an .asoundrc file

I did that now Smile my atv is now running like this:

crystalubuntu via hdmi
airplayer
shairport

Thank you for the small trick Sam Wink

- Sam.Nazarko - 2011-04-23 19:31

Good to hear.

You installed Airplayer, meaning you had to upgrade Python to 2.6. Did this break any addon functionality?

- da-bitsch - 2011-04-23 19:52

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Good to hear.

You installed Airplayer, meaning you had to upgrade Python to 2.6. Did this break any addon functionality?

so far i havent noticed anything not working... If you want me to test something specific i'll do that..

- Sam.Nazarko - 2011-04-23 20:09

That won't be necessary but thanks for the offer. Debating whether or not to deploy Airplayer in the next update.

- pmcd - 2011-04-24 00:29

Sam.Nazarko Wrote:Try md5sum, check result -- you'd have to parse gunzip output to md5sum, as compression won't match.

Code:
mount -t hfsplus -o rw,force /dev/sdb3 /mnt/atv
cd /mnt/atv

Put that in a file called patchstick.sh on /dev/sdb1 and it will auto mount and change the path.


Thanks. The whole problem with the dd sda piped to gzip is that it also copied the free space and so it filled up a 16 gig flash drive and ended with an error! Is there a way of getting dd to ignore the free space on the internal drive?

The internal drive is 320gigs. Most of it is empty. Only the Recovery partition has anything in it. That leaves EFI, Media and OSBoot which are almost empty.

What I am saying is dd () |gzip -c > () yields an enormous file! So that method can't work with a flash drive.

philip

- Sam.Nazarko - 2011-04-24 00:35

It shouldn't take that much space. As the freespace is just 0s and can be compressed into nothingness. E.g. the 512MB swap file is only 9MB on my server.

Personally, I would just use rebuild.sh if you ever wanted frontrow back -- see the atvusb-creator trunk. As a developer on the project I'd be more than happy to assist you if you had any issues with it.

- bass63 - 2011-04-24 02:06

Sam, I can confirm it is taking too much space. I've tried to back up internal drive using the same method and process ran out of space after filling up 8 GB USB-flash. I have a 40GB HDD which is EMPTY, I mean there's nothing but two clean OS - FrontRow and CrystalUbuntu (I only do streaming on my aTV). I was wandering myself what is the deal and why zeros at free space aren't compressing....

- Sam.Nazarko - 2011-04-24 02:37

bass63 Wrote:Sam, I can confirm it is taking too much space. I've tried to back up internal drive using the same method and process ran out of space after filling up 8 GB USB-flash. I have a 40GB HDD which is EMPTY, I mean there's nothing but two clean OS - FrontRow and CrystalUbuntu (I only do streaming on my aTV). I was wandering myself what is the deal and why zeros at free space aren't compressing....

Hello Dimitry, it's been a while. That's weird. Same command I used to create the archives. As I said to Paul, use the rebuild.sh script if you must restore. This buillds up all your partitions again using atv-bootloader. I'm probably going to design a rescue USB stick program at some point -- it's on the cards as I feel its unfair to potentially jeopardise people's working frontrow systems with this and offer no recourse.

- illiac4 - 2011-04-24 08:50

Hi!

One maybe a little off topic questionSmile

Is it possible to install into this release some small web server? Which one would someone recommend? It has to be simple and lightweight.

The other thing i'd like to do is to install FireFlyMedia server on ATV with your distribution. I'll report back but i think this should not be a bigger problem.

TNX