Boxee and AppleTV » Deadlypenguin

Prior to starting up the AppleTV or even unboxing it, get your patchstick ready by following these instructions
Unbox and setup the AppleTV to your LAN.
Then, navigate to the setup->general->updates and make sure you STOP the update if you can. The update won’t technically break anything, but there are some problems with the newest firmware. If you can stop it it’s better
Insert your patchstick, and reboot the AppleTV
Once it’s done open up your favorite terminal, and get ready to ssh to make sure that AppleTV can run any updates. The password is **frontrow
```
  ssh frontrow@appletv
  sudo bash -c &#8216;echo "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts'
```
From the menu select ‘XBMC/Boxee’ → Updates and select the non-alpha boxee
Wait and wait some more
Download the darwinx86 iso from here you can get a free login for this by following the links
Mount it up on the loop back and scp the /usr/bin/vim and /sbin/mount_nfs to the AppleTV
You will need to make sure you nfs export has the option insecure or the AppleTV won’t be able to mount it
Reboot one last time. You can do this with sudo /sbin/reboot now
Choose boxee from the menu and launch it. There are a couple of known bugs with the latest firmware and boxee version.

Boxee starts with a black screen. The only real ‘fix’ for that is to restart it a bunch until it starts up right.
Boxee freezes on the menu. Remove the /Users/frontrow/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/ folder.

Boxee running