It means I have a Windows PC and a Linux PC sitting on my desk, so if its easier to perform whatever voodoo magic to get the files in Linux as opposed to Windows, fire away.its a console port.
What does this mean? "I can access the embedded box from either a Windows or Linux desktop"
samba, webpage?
If it's an IPTV box, it should have an ethernet port, no?
Dis one
It says there's a web-based management system, I guess that's useless? No file manager or anything?
Nope, ethernet only.
I think all you have to do is use the 'get' command in telnet to receive a file from the machine.
There's a Linux based PXE service you can use to image a machine. Most machines have the ability to do it nowadays.
hmm, got any more on this?
But can you put files into a directory that you can retrieve via the webserver? Maybe TAR up the whole drive and put it somewhere?Nah, the web interface is pointless. You can set your encode/decode options through it and your network settings and that's about it.
The device would have to have the option in the BIOS of PXE booting. If so, you could PXE boot it and ghost the damn thing.hmm, got any more on this?
But can you put files into a directory that you can retrieve via the webserver? Maybe TAR up the whole drive and put it somewhere?
The device would have to have the option in the BIOS of PXE booting. If so, you could PXE boot it and ghost the damn thing.
I setup our PXE server here...
Setting up the PXE server is the only part I really don't know how to do, that's what I was trying to look up.
You might be able to run Netcat on one of the other PC's sitting next to it and pipe the output of a dd to the netcat listener and pipe that to a file. You'd get an image of the flash drive into the file on the PC.
Is that what you're looking to do?
Its sounds like it, but I'm not exactly sure how you'd go about this. I understand what dd is and piping data, but how would netcat go about listening to the embedded box. I thought dd was for internal copy/moves only.You might be able to run Netcat on one of the other PC's sitting next to it and pipe the output of a dd to the netcat listener and pipe that to a file. You'd get an image of the flash drive into the file on the PC.
Is that what you're looking to do?
dd if=filetomove of=eth0