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?
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