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Old 04-22-2019, 01:40 PM   #1
brotakul
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Media player running BusyBox


Hi,
I have an Egreat R6S media player laying around doing nothing and i'd like to experiment with it a bit, as it's not of any use for me anymore. I'm a newbie with linux, so i thought it might actually help me learn some thing along the way.
I managed to access the box through telnet and it runs BusyBox:

~ # uname -a
Linux Egreat 2.6.34-VENUS #112 PREEMPT Tue Jun 26 21:26:46 CST 2012 mips GNU/Linux


It's a Realtek 1186DD chip, 512 MB ram, 512MB storage.

~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : (null)
processor : 0
cpu model : MIPS 24Kc V8.5 FPU V0.0
BogoMIPS : 502.98
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 32
extra interrupt vector : yes
hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0108, 0x0c10, 0x0458, 0x0140]
ASEs implemented : mips16
shadow register sets : 1
core : 0
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available


Now, I played a little with Ubuntu here and there, but have zero experience with BusyBox. I understand it is not a linux distro per se, but rather some kind of UNIX sets of utilities packed in an executable. I also understand (from wikipedia) that it requires some base system (Linux, BSD, Android) to run on.
Hopefully, i'd be able to get something like Ubuntu server up and running on it. Is that even possible?
 
Old 04-22-2019, 04:19 PM   #2
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The short answer is no.

This is a specialized embedded processor with limited RAM and storage space which is one reason that it uses BusyBox. Embedded devices do not have a BIOS or normal input/output like video or keyboard capability like a regular PC so it is a lot harder to install an operating system. In addition Ubuntu does not support the processor architecture of your media player.

It isn't impossible but without knowing anything about the media player's hardware and how it works it probably isn't worth the effort.

https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
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Old 04-22-2019, 10:13 PM   #3
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Ok, thanks michaelk! I’ll just dump it then.
 
  


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