My take on setup ipkg on box office device

[xun1234]

I just bought a box office device, I would like to share the my steps to install ipkg on box office, once you have ipkg setup, you can install loads of software on box office to make it a multifunctional server.

telnet to box office, login as root. There is no root password in there, so you might want to edit /usr/local/etc/passwd to give it a root password.

mkdir /tmp/hdd/root/opt
mount -o remount,rw /
ln -sf /tmp/hdd/root/opt /opt
mount -o remount,r /
mkdir /opt/tmp
cd /opt/tmp
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ip
rm *.ipk

so far ipkg is installed.
Enjoy your box office and have fun.

[xun1234]

some server software you might want to try
openssh: to get ssh access.
vsftpd: I found it is much faster to transfer file to the box using ftp rather than samba.
mediatomb: to serve media files, it is also possible to use mediatomb to access online streaming video.
transmission: a better bittorrent client than the default one in my opinion.

[snappy46]

Interesting project, I was just thinking the other night about a way to possibly run mediatomb on the PBO. It is currently running on my PC to allow apple movie trailers and You tube video streaming to the PBO using UPnP.

It sure would be cool if I can use the PBO as the server and client at the same time to be able to stream apple movie trailers and you tube videos. Mediatomb however is dependant on quite a few libraires so all those will have to be installed. At this point I don't even know the power/architecture of the PBO chipset but I can only assume it is quite limited.

Anyhow; like I mentionned already very interesting project; let us know if your are successful in installing any of those programs.

[kermit]

Good news, if I can install ipkg, I can install asterisk, and python google voice scripts, it can act as voip server!

some server software you might want to try
openssh: to get ssh access.
vsftpd: I found it is much faster to transfer file to the box using ftp rather than samba.
mediatomb: to serve media files, it is also possible to use mediatomb to access online streaming video.
transmission: a better bittorrent client than the default one in my opinion.

[wigout]

I do not vouch for the information presented here as entirely applicable but this forum:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=58718

explores getting fancy with optware on the ASUS O!Play, a near match for patriot box office. Should be useful in finding what's possible.

and here's a second site dedicated to modding the ASUS O!Play:

http://minimodding.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2

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[eakf]

This looks promising. I posted earlier about the possibility of getting Logitech's slimserve running on the PBO, does this mean that it's at least plausible?

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[Amowagou]

Hopefully, the experts here may compose a tutorial “ipkg for Dummies” and show us how to install and use some basic packages like vsftpd and transmission from scratch.

[outatouch0]

Hopefully, the experts here may compose a tutorial “ipkg for Dummies” and show us how to install and use some basic packages like vsftpd and transmission from scratch.

yea, as I know squat about lynics - cant even spell it - I would need some help with this too. Got to do something to uncork the network speeds on the PBO

[French]

awesome stuff

I got ipkg installed perfectly and even got the openssh and vsftpd packages downloaded into /opt/tmp, but thats as far as I got, if some1 could please maybe help us out on how to do the rest...

for vsftpd i get this error:

You'll need to add line like
echo "ftp stream tcp nowait root /opt/sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf" >>/etc/inetd.conf

to your /unslung/rc.xinetd file
-- see the wiki at http://www.nslu2-linux.org for more info

mkdir: Cannot create directory `/usr/share/': Read-only file system
Successfully terminated.

and for ssh:

/tmp/hdd/root/opt/tmp # ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt openssh_4.7p1-1_mipsel
Package ipkg-opt (0.99.163-10) installed in root is up to date.
Installing openssh (4.7p1-1) to root...
Configuring openssh

Generating RSA Key...
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_key.
Your public key has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
d7:62:80:78:ab:ac:33:10:43:90:34:93:99:82:7f:75
Generating RSA Key...
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Your public key has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
The key fingerprint is:
00:24:7f:83:57:99:33:59:e0:d3:ad:2b:09:e0:e2:b7
Generating DSA Key...
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Your public key has been saved in /opt/etc/openssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
The key fingerprint is:
77:7c:68:45:e2:2a:64:8d:a1:e3:df:cf:95:6f:62:db
mkdir: Cannot create directory `/root': Read-only file system
Fixing permissions on the /tmp directory...
killall: sshd: no process killed
Missing privilege separation directory: /opt/var/empty
postinst script returned status 255
ERROR: openssh.postinst returned 255


if someone could please help out
thanks

[snappy46]

awesome stuff

I got ipkg installed perfectly and even got the openssh and vsftpd packages downloaded into /opt/tmp, but thats as far as I got, if some1 could please maybe help us out on how to do the rest...

for vsftpd i get this error:

You'll need to add line like
echo "ftp stream tcp nowait root /opt/sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf" >>/etc/inetd.conf

1) Telnet to your PBO.
2) cd /etc
3) vi inetd.conf (read up on vi (text editor) to learn the various editing options)
4) add the line requested (ftp stream tcp nowait root /opt/sbin/vsftpd /opt/etc/vsftpd.conf) after the other lines; you will see one for the http server (www) and telnet already there just add at the end of that.
5) save the inetd.conf file.
6) Reboot the PBO then try the ftp server it should be already running.

Hopefully this will work for you. I haven't add the time to play with this yet but intend to do so.

Good luck