2011-04-16, 01:53
Observer Wrote:Sam
You Rock ! Success (from OSX adding a few macport tools fuse-ext2 and gptsync) !
Seems my initial attempts were being hampered by a doggy USB flash drive that would crap out half way though with I/O Read errors.
I guess when this line (below) in the ubuntu.sh script got stuck downloading the Root Image file...0k per sec for an hour....
My only choice is to reboot and start again..it would be great however if the script had some checking to see if any of the images are already downloaded (comparing size/timestamp etc) , the wget -c & -N options may help here? This would also help if one was installing a series of ATV's...Code:wget "http://download.stmlabs.com/atv-images/ubuntu/hardy/core/Root.img.gz"
Also is there some specific file structure on the swap partition requiring an image download or can this be created by issuing commands ?
BTW it would be cool if you published the download/update stats from your web server. From there there are a bunch of other "features" you could offer.
Just need to fix my judder, Alsa/SPDIF and some other video freeze and VC-1 container issues and I have a solution.
Please keep up the great work and I for one will continue to support you.
Great that it works. The script downloads every time for absolute freshness. If you wanted to image a series of aTVs, you'd have to reimage the USB every time or deal with a nasty Ubuntu udev rule (net-persistent-rules), as each aTV has a different NIC, thus different MAC, thus comes up as a different ethX which must be registered as auto in /etc/network/interfaces.
I'm not sure what you mean by stats? If it interests you to know, over a terrabyte has crossed the network in images since March 28th, although this seems to be steadying out now.
I'll keep maintaining the image -- there's some good stuff waiting for you like PVR support, and a small update I'll be pushing out soon. Stay tuned