Fat_Baba Wrote:At the moment I am using the AppleTV with a 1TB USB Disk Drive formatted as HFS+. I would like to try CrystalBuntu.
Is there a way to install crystalbuntu on the internal drive? So I can use the USB port for the External HD?
When i install to the internal HD i want to make a backup of the OSX and restore partition. IS there a guide for this?
Can CrystalBuntu read HFS+ Disks? Or is there a way to achieve this? Or do I have to convert to EXT3?
Pretty much everything you want to do here is somewhere in this thread. I can't go back right now to find it all at the moment, but you can "search this thread" above to find what you're looking for.
And yes, I had some trouble with my HFS+ external drive, but all you have to do is disable journaling through OSX in the terminal with "diskutil".
I had this working on a USB thumb drive, then decided to backup my internal drive and install to there. I made a complete disk image of the atv drive for backup using dd via ssh.
I also installed pin's image over the network via ssh. I found most of what i needed in this thread for that, but for the exact commands, I got some help here:
http://ultra.ap.krakow.pl/~bar/DOC/ssh_backup.html
Pretty much, just read this entire thread and then google for the rest, as I did. I'm a complete Linux noob, and I managed.