Can anyone suggest/provide a Crystalubuntu 2 Mirror?

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

  1. dd if=/path/of/local/ATV.img.bz2 | bzip2 -d | ssh root@ip.address.of.atv “dd of=/dev/sda”
  2. Answer yes to RSA key fingerprint question
  3. Enter password → openelec
  4. 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…

  1. 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)

  1. ssh root@ip.address.of.atv "dd if=/dev/sda " | dd of=/local/chosen/storage/path/of/ATV.img

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