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:
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BusyBox v1.1.3 (2008.04.09-04:56+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
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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.





