Take2 PatchStick v2.0
You must download this software to do all the needed steps in this wiki
1) DD 4 Windows - Used to create your PatchStick
2) WinRAR - Used to extract the image and software
PatchStick v2.0 will install:
SSH. On to your AppleTV
Requirments:
1) a 1gb+ (4 gb max) thumb drive able to be used for patchstick only, all information will be deleted off this thumb drive when creating PatchStick.
2) RapidShare Link PatchstickATVT2.img
Steps 1 & 2 are not required but highly recommended, issues may arise - use caution!
1) Factory restore AppleTV to v1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.0.1 -
You do this by pressing and holding in the (-) and (Menu) buttons together for approximately 5 seconds till the AppleTV restarts. Go through the options of setting your resolution and get to the menu where it will say, factory restore. Factory Restore your AppleTV.
2) You will want to update your AppleTV to 2.0.1. (If you bought a unit with v2.0.1. Skip this step) Do this by selecting update AppleTV in the settings menu on the main screen of your AppleTV
- Here is a YouTube video on how to create a patchstick (steps 3 - 6) on this wiki! Click Here
3) Extract DD 4 Windows, which you downloaded earlier. To "C:\DD\" (Make a folder in your C drive called "DD")
4) Extract/Unzip "PatchstickATVT2.img.bz2" and place "PatchstickATVT2.img" in the "C:\DD\" folder .
5) You want to format your thumb drive. Do this by going to My Computer, Finding your Thumb Drive. Right Click, Format. Select FAT, and Quick Format. Click Format and wait a few seconds. (I highly suggest using a 1 GB Thumb Drive. I do not know if the new image will fit on a 512 stick anymore....)
6) Go to "Start/Run" Type "CMD" A command prompt will come up. and type:
cd C:\DD
Press enter, then type
dd --list
MAKE SURE YOU PROCESS THE NEXT STEP CORRECTLY! YOU COULD DELETE YOUR WINDOWS HARD DISK PARTITION!!! MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE CORRECT HARD DISK WHEN USING DD4WINDOWS!!!
A list of all mounted drives should pop up. Find the one with the drive letter the thumb drive has. It should look kinda like this if your drive is mounted on D:
- Tip for finding your drive letter. Look in My Computer for the drive letter of the Thumb Drive. This makes it a lot easier when looking in DD. I have my Thumb Drive mounted as "d:" drive, as shown below.
\\.\Volume{e3429891-0eb9-11da-b18f-000d60dc98cd}\
link to \\?\Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0 3 removable media
Mounted on \\.\d:
When you find the thumb drive drive in the list , the important thing you need to use next is the "link to..." part.
The "of=\\" part should be the link to part from the list, but just use the \\?\Device\Harddisk* part and type \Partition0 after that. It should start creating the PatchStick.
When you're ready to create the PatchStick, type
dd if=PatchstickATVT2.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk*PLACE-HARD-DISK-NUMBER-HERE*\Partition0 bs=1M --progress
Example: dd if=PatchstickATVT2.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 bs=1M --progress
7) Plug in the thumb drive to the AppleTV, then reboot by pressing (-) and (Menu) together and holding. It should list a bunch of text, you will see a few little error messages like INVALID DESTINATION PORT. If you see the install successful message, unplug AppleTV and Unplug PatchStick.
- Thanks to EricIII & Bjarke Bech & AwkwardTV for all your help!
