Archive:HOW-TO:Install Gentoo and XBMC on Apple TV 1

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Install Gentoo and XBMC on the AppleTV

These instructions will help you on your way to getting Gentoo intalled on your Apple TV. This guide is for a total ATV overhaul -- which is to say replacing the OSX-lite ATV OS with Gentoo. As such it has the possibility of totally toasting your pretty silver box. These steps do NOT require you to crack open your ATV and slave up its disk to an existing pc. This is of course an option, but IMHO, totally unnecessary.

Most of this guide was stolen right off http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader. I give full praise and credit to these guys. atv-bootloader is a truely awesome little bit of work. This guide assumes you are comfortable with a gentoo command-line installation and kernel configuration, telnet/ssh connections, network basics, partition/disk schemes, etc. If terms like "dd", "mbr", "efi" and "parted" don't mean anything to you, you should probably close this document and go grab a Ubuntu ISO. Not that I don't love Ubuntu :-)

You will also need an existing linux machine (or, yes, OSX would work too). This linux machine will be used to build the initial ATV-Bootloader USB stick, as well as telnet into your atv during the process. I used a gentoo box, and thus these instructions will be geared in that direction. Keep in mind some part may deviate, depending on your distro.

Your ATV and linux machine will need to be on the same lan with dhcp setup (should be a no brainer)

Herrrrrreeee we go...

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