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[jea101]

The link to mediafire in bodhi78’s post to  download Install Oleg Optware, BusyBox and samba brings up an invalid or deleted file page.

http://www.mediafire.com/?h444obtxybiirt1

[Curious11]

Hey All,

you have all done some great work in making this device greater, I suggested this to a mate who purchased on here in AUS and he loves the thing but I want to make it better and open it up to Samba or FTP file access.

My concerns are as he knows nothing of telnet or SSH or even what firmware is and I have not mod'd one of these devices before and I have a couple of concerns

1)  is that will it retain is original functionality aka the home screen and all the features of the media playing?

2) Also does it need to be telneted every time it gets switched on?

I would just like to open the function up for him and then let it be?

Appreciate your help!!

S

[dm]

@

bodhi78

I'd just suggest we avoid over heavy usage of writting to the flash. I just recall reading something once. I'll try to find that post.

I guess we would have to check each optware install and set the logs to perhaps /tmp (ya ram disk like you said)?? or something im memory. I noticed you can limit the samba logs to a certain size.

1- ya That sounds ok. just search for the /opt . I'd say  look for like this

/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt / oleg-optware

so we can standarize on putting everything in opt ?

or look for opt/oleg-optware and make that /opt and just assume

/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt

will be our generic OPTHOME ?

Have 2 variables  OPTHOME (for where all our packages of stuff will be, optware being one of them)

and OPTDIR which is the oleg-optware /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt / oleg-optware

or maybe im making this to complicated.

in the end, I basically just install myself so the instal part im not concerned with.

but yes this is most likely needed for autorun.sh

[dm]

@curious , the MOD 2.23 (talking about the usa version)

is the same as 2.23 normal just allows telnet and has a way to run a script at the start.

for now its a bit complicated but im sure it will get easier.

[dm]

COOL.

I found the source for the XLIVE rss menus. (see my post before this one)

http://www.xtreamer.net/downloads/community-projects/xtreamer-live!.aspx

dl = http://download.xtreamer.net/Firmware/APP/xLive/xLive.zip

This page holds many projects we should borrow from and bring to the FAT/GOFLEXtv

To use the xlive menus I think the path is hardcoded to

/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/scripts/...... ie make

scripts

on your usb drive sda1

and then extract that into there

You will need to EDIT your main menu after copying it into /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts

see my post before this

Then again : MAYBE next firmware release should have the main menu EDITED to have an icon already that says "My Customer menu here ") "

[bodhi78]

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jea101 wrote:

The link to mediafire in bodhi78’s post to  download Install Oleg Optware, BusyBox and samba brings up an invalid or deleted file page.

http://www.mediafire.com/?h444obtxybiirt1

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Sorry guys! I've changed autorun.sh and uploaded new version but forgot to update the link :-) will do and let you know here.

[bodhi78]

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bodhi78 wrote:

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jea101 wrote:

The link to mediafire in bodhi78’s post to  download Install Oleg Optware, BusyBox and samba brings up an invalid or deleted file page.

http://www.mediafire.com/?h444obtxybiirt1

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Sorry guys! I've changed autorun.sh and uploaded new version but forgot to update the link :-) will do and let you know here.

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I've updated the link. Please try again!

[bodhi78]

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dm wrote:

@

bodhi78

I'd just suggest we avoid over heavy usage of writting to the flash. I just recall reading something once. I'll try to find that post.

I guess we would have to check each optware install and set the logs to perhaps /tmp (ya ram disk like you said)?? or something im memory. I noticed you can limit the samba logs to a certain size.

1- ya That sounds ok. just search for the /opt . I'd say  look for like this

/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt / oleg-optware

so we can standarize on putting everything in opt ?

or look for opt/oleg-optware and make that /opt and just assume

/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt

will be our generic OPTHOME ?

Have 2 variables  OPTHOME (for where all our packages of stuff will be, optware being one of them)

and OPTDIR which is the oleg-optware /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/ opt / oleg-optware

or maybe im making this to complicated.

in the end, I basically just install myself so the instal part im not concerned with.

but yes this is most likely needed for autorun.sh

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@dm

- Yes I'm aware of the problem with writing to flash too often, and I agreed that we want to avoid that. Especially with samba, it logs the activities regularly. There is a tool called iotop in optware that we can use to look at the disk write activities (in this case, it'll show the /opt writes)

- Here is what I found with the FAT+ that caused me to change autorun.sh to remove the line that mount /opt : once you've mounted /opt to /usr/local/etc, it stays mounted even after power OFF for a while and then power ON again. So the mounting during installation of oleg-optware sticks.

- So we'll have to change autorun.sh to umount and then look for oleg-optware in the list of possible locations and then mount it. It does get complicated to make it flexible

[jea101]

Thanks
The new link works
However, it appears that the scripts are incomplete.  I don’t have a /opt directory so both optware and samba installs fail.

Thanks
The new link works
However, it appears that the scripts are incomplete.  I don’t have a /opt directory so both optware and samba installs fail.







Venus login: root
warning: cannot change to home directory


BusyBox v1.1.3 (2010.08.17-14:27+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ # ls
Test.fat  dev       lib       mnt       sbin      tmp       usr
bin       etc       linuxrc   proc      sys       tmp_orig  var
/ # mount
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock/2 on /usr/local/Resource type squashfs (ro)
/dev/mtdblock/3 on /usr/local/etc type yaffs (rw,noatime)
/dev/rd/0 on /mnt/rd type vfat (rw,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp4
37,iocharset=iso8859-1)
/dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /tmp/usbmounts/sda1 type vfat (rw,nod
iratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt
,utf8)
/ #
/ #
/ # /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-install.sh
mount: Mounting oleg-optware on /opt failed: No such file or directory
/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-install.sh: cd: 29: can't cd to /opt
/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-install.sh: /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-inst
all.sh: 30: ./ipkg-cl: not found
rm: cannot remove `ipkg-cl': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk': No such file or directory
/tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-install.sh: /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-inst
all.sh: 36: /opt/bin/ipkg: not found
/ #

[dm]

@jea,

if you do not have /opt then you DL the wrong file

see my post#1 here and dl the first firmware listed. it says /opt in it