Gather information

1 Information provided by menu

Setup the movie cube according to the vendors guides and switch it on.

On MovieCube setup menu, goto Misc and note down the information.

Software version: 4.2.1262UO(90)
BIOS/BootCode: 0000.1102.029P
Bootup: 9P

Hardware: RTD1262

** Note: Details here are only valid if the firmware details etc, match the above. With other firmware versions, the box behaviour might be different. **

2 Information provided on OS level

2.1 Connect to OS

Connect the movie cube to your LAN (either Ethernet or WLAN). The IP address (if using DHCP) is visible in the setup menu of the cube.
Connect to the movie cube via standard telnet. Login name is 'root', no password needed.
Directly after login, the busybox version is shown (where busybox is a low requirements implementation of unix command line tools, see [http://busybox.net/] for details.
Example:
[code]
BusyBox v1.1.3 (2008.04.09-04:56+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
[/code]

2.2 Get OS version

Executing command 'uname -a' gives the kernel details

~ # uname -a
Linux nas 2.6.12.6-VENUS #2 Sat Apr 12 12:50:32 CST 2008 mips unknown

2.3 Get filesystem details

2.3.1 Available partitions

Find out about the different partitions via 'fdisk'command

~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               2       10465    84052080   83  Linux
/dev/hda2           10466       10529      514080   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           10530       60785   403681320    5  Extended
/dev/hda4           60786       60801      128520   83  Linux
/dev/hda5           10531       10578      385560   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           10580       12143    12562830   83  Linux
/dev/hda7           12145       54704   341863200    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8           54706       60785    48837600    7  HPFS/NTFS

2.3.2 Mount points

Find out about mount points using 'df' command

~ # df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               497861     87206    384951  18% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4    124443     66703     51314  57% /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 341779712    111360 341668352   0% /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8  48837596     67476  48770120   0% /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD2
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1  84051018        12  84051006   0% /usr/local/etc/hdd/dvdvr
/dev/rd/0                   40        40         0 100% /mnt/rd
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6  12561768   2014446  10547322  16% /usr/local/etc/hdd/livepause

3 Network setup

Find out about network setup using command 'ifconfig'

~ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:CE:39:02:10:58
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:42 (42.0 B)
          Interrupt:2 Base address:0x6000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:106 (106.0 B)  TX bytes:106 (106.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:1F:05:35:D3
          inet addr:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:161 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:21247 (20.7 KiB)  TX bytes:23783 (23.2 KiB)

4 More system details

See also chapter 'Enable system logging' later how to get more details about the OS.

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