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Apple TV HD image makes the rounds...

Swad

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Well, that didn't take long. After hearing many Apple TV users clamoring for a hard drive image to dissect and toy with, a torrent of one was released today. Here are the accompanying notes:

This is a slightly-modded AppleTV dmg file of all three partitions, for use when you screw up your own modding - you can restore to this one.

 

It has a startup script disabling the firewall, with ARD and sshd running. (ssh -1 frontrow@your.appletv.ip, password frontrow). It's pre-set for 720p.

We obviously can't confirm the contents of this image, nor do we encourage the theft itself, but... hey... torrented stolen files are always interesting if nothing else, right? :)

 

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Booshi

Booshi 0

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Would it not be possible to run this in vmware or something? sorry...noob alert...woot 1st post

Artistan

Artistan 2

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Would it not be possible to run this in vmware or something? sorry...noob alert...woot 1st post

 

Was thinking of the exact same idea... :)

Eldabbagh

Eldabbagh 5

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me three, where is the image?

Mr. Bond

Mr. Bond 4

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Would it not be possible to run this in vmware or something? sorry...noob alert...woot 1st post

 

Not as is, no. It's almost an exact dump of the aTV's HDD...thus, you'll still have things like EFI, mach_kernel, etc to edit/modify before having any hope of a native boot, let alone in Vmware.

 

I think the best bet at the moment is taking an existing OSx86 install, and slowly adding in components from there.

Eldabbagh

Eldabbagh 5

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lets get working on it Mr. Bond...

BlackShadowWolf

BlackShadowWolf 0

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The DMG is is the stripped out version of OS X right? If it is, someone should Spotlight it and see what kind of goodies there are, like themes or other Leopard based goodness :). That would be funny if a message popped up saying. "Congrats, you found the secret features, dont tell Microsoft, please?"

celebi23

celebi23 1

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I'm trying to get my hands on it as we speak. Should be fun to poke around in the .dmg

Artistan

Artistan 2

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I'm gonna see if I can make a Franken-aTV by combining content of the DMG with the full OSX... Once I get hold of the files.

Soündless

Soündless 0

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could we put it on an external hd, and then run it on an intel mac?

Takuro

Takuro 0

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First... the hackintosh... now... the hackinTV.

 

We'll need to come up with a better name. :star_smile:

user2

user2 1

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popped up on green devil

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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the one one the green devil is also 300mb smaller than the one on oink

alloutmacstoday

alloutmacstoday 1

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maybe diff file? or zipped? or stuffited?

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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maybe diff file? or zipped? or stuffited?

 

totally diff .dmg

bwhsh8r

bwhsh8r 0

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totally diff .dmg

i would rip the one off of oink, but we all know what happened with that..... ill get on the demonoid one and we can compare diabloik, okay?

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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i would rip the one off of oink, but we all know what happened with that..... ill get on the demonoid one and we can compare diabloik, okay?

 

my oink is done and the demonoid one is ofcourse gonna take forever. but looking at the .dmg file size i believe they are tottaly diff:

 

demonoid dmg: 197.9mb

oink dmg: 447.10mb

Sabr

Sabr 8

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my oink is done and the demonoid one is ofcourse gonna take forever. but looking at the .dmg file size i believe they are tottaly diff:

 

demonoid dmg: 197.9mb

oink dmg: 447.10mb

 

Yeah, that seems very odd. Perhaps it's a DMG of one of the three partitions on the AppleTV HDD?

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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here what i found out for differences:

 

demonoid dmg: only osboot image

oink dmg: osboot image and media image :unsure:

 

so the oink image is alittle more complete than the demonoid image.

 

-DiaboliK

Sabr

Sabr 8

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Interesting... So what kind of stuff is included on the media image?

Soündless

Soündless 0

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the one one the green devil is also 300mb smaller than the one on oink

i cant find on oink, whats it called?

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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Interesting... So what kind of stuff is included on the media image?

 

an itunesprefs.plist, a media library file and a media files folder with the folders f00 to f99 all empty

TvvqKMZ72bsklauw5

TvvqKMZ72bsklauw5 0

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my oink is done and the demonoid one is ofcourse gonna take forever. but looking at the .dmg file size i believe they are tottaly diff:

 

demonoid dmg: 197.9mb

oink dmg: 447.10mb

 

EDIT: Nevermind, searched for it using the log. What's the difference between the two?

 

The one from Demonoid is actually uploaded onto OiNK as well.

Sabr

Sabr 8

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an itunesprefs.plist, a media library file and a media files folder with the folders f00 to f99 all empty

 

And that takes up 300MB? :unsure:

DiaboliK

DiaboliK 3

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And that takes up 300MB? :unsure:

 

yes it wierd, i cant seem to burn the oink image either (the 477mb one) it says it needs 37.79gb of space to burn.....

 

gonna try the demonoid image.

 

BTW- also in the media img theres and scratch folder taking up 80mb that seems to have the users and settings for the appletv

 

 

im gonna try a disk image backup to a new partition and see how that works since i cant burn it to disk...

(yes i do know how to make it bootable ;))


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