[RELEASE] CrystalHD Linux distributions for Apple TV with UI installer (Win, Linux)

Hudson_Hawk04 Wrote:it is possible that the atv does not like the thumb drive you are using....

It's the same 8GB cruzer thumb drive I used to install pin's image initially, so it definitely should work.

Edit: Occam's Razor strikes again! I used the GUI tool on another, identical cruzer USB and it's working. Looking forward to having the updated Crystalbuntu up and running later this evening.

pumkinut Wrote:Just updated, got a little worried at first. After the update scripts completed, I was greeted with a black screen and my TV reporting an unusable signal. Another reboot via SSH seems to have fixed things.

Same thing happened to me on both May and June updates. Also, June update wiped out my NFS shares (fstab). No big deal to fix, but worth mentioning.

OmegaRed1723 Wrote:It's the same 8GB cruzer thumb drive I used to install pin's image initially, so it definitely should work.

Edit: Occam's Razor strikes again! I used the GUI tool on another, identical cruzer USB and it's working. Looking forward to having the updated Crystalbuntu up and running later this evening.

USB thumbdrives, like any storage media, can go up at any time and without warning.

I've gone through several 4GB and one 8GB thumbdrives over the past couple of years using them for XBMC Live.

Sam,

is it possible to reinstall your first release, it seems like the past two updates are causing a failure in the Icefilms plugin (the main reason of me using xbmc).

Thanks,

Ronald

pumkinut Wrote:Just updated, got a little worried at first. After the update scripts completed, I was greeted with a black screen and my TV reporting an unusable signal. Another reboot via SSH seems to have fixed things.

I had the same issue with the May update. Also, it happened a few times thereafter again and overall stability appears worse. Is the original built (the 1st with auto-install on HD) still around somewhere? Would love to go back to this version.

I have done the installed from thread, excellent job!
I have also fitted the crystalHD so will be playing tonight

Are you able to use the rest of the drive to store movies on?

It would be great if I was able to access a part of the appletv internal drive via SMB to simply drag a few movies on when I taking the unit to different places etc.

is this possible?


Thanks all

Have anyone an idea how to tell Crystalubuntu to automount NTFS drives with utf-8 as standard?

newsilentsilver Wrote:Have anyone an idea how to tell Crystalubuntu to automount NTFS drives with utf-8 as standard?

Try something like this in /etc/fstab

I use something like the following

I do not know the option for utf8 with NFS, however. The options are equivalent to the options found in "mount -o".

Uhh, NFS != NTFS

ronald5 Wrote:Sam,

is it possible to reinstall your first release, it seems like the past two updates are causing a failure in the Icefilms plugin (the main reason of me using xbmc).

Thanks,

Ronald

power off your atv for a few seconds then power on, several updates have been pushed.