If users are running OpenElec from a USB stick then it might be easier to connect to the ATV via SSH and dd the image across a local network to the ATV’s HDD if you have the time.
SSH naturally has to be enabled in OpenElec > Programs > Services
ATV’s with HDD/SSD/DOM’s → the correct /dev/sd? can be viewed by OpenElec > System info > Storage
Once OpenElec is running from usb, the ATV’s Hard Drive (unmodified ATV) will be mounted as /dev/sda
Individual partitions (recovery + primary) are sda1 and sda2
Copy and paste to a Terminal app on the machine that contains the ATV.img.bz2
- dd if=/path/of/local/ATV.img.bz2 | bzip2 -d | ssh root@ip.address.of.atv “dd of=/dev/sda”
- Answer yes to RSA key fingerprint question
- Enter password → openelec
- Feet up, This might take a while… if your using the Terminal app in OSX - > CTRL + T will spit out dd progress
If your image is already unzipped and just a ATV.img file replace step 1 with this…
- dd if=/path/of/local/ATV.img | ssh root@ip.address.of.atv “dd of=/dev/sda”
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Similarly if you want to make a local networked backup of your ATV’s HDD…
(probably a good idea before OSMC for the ATV is released)
- ssh root@ip.address.of.atv "dd if=/dev/sda " | dd of=/local/chosen/storage/path/of/ATV.img