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I have a menu driven boot loader but it would need some modifications to make it work on other environments as well. It assumes that the /dev/hda2 partition exists and can be mounted to specific location, etc.

But in your case, it would probably be easiest to just write a simple /sbin/init script replacement, like:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=./:/bin
PS1=empeg:\\w\\$
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,rw /proc
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,ro /dev/hda4 /drive0
/empeg/bin/player

And then you could add whatever network stuff you want before/after the empeg player software.

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...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

 11:08am  up  2:26,  0 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.01
8 processes: 7 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.3% user,  0.1% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem:   10920K av,   7484K used,   3436K free,   1740K shrd,   3104K buff
Swap:      0K av,      0K used,      0K free                  2012K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  198 root       1   0   892  892   716 R       0  0.5  8.1   0:01 top
    1 root       0   0    80   80    60 S       0  0.0  0.7   0:04 init
    2 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kflushd
    3 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdate
    4 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kpiod
    5 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
   45 root       0   0    76   76     0 S       0  0.0  0.6   0:00 inetd
  182 root       0   0  1240 1240   964 S       0  0.0 11.3   0:00 bash

I will run it at home with a ftp session running.
Hrm. It looks like I need to set the time zone environment variable.

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) type rwm, then rw to mount the partitions read-write.
5) cd /empeg/var
6) echo "[Menu]" >> config.ini
7) echo "quit=1" >> config.ini
8) type rom, then ro, to mount the partitions read-only.

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...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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Keep in mind that all empeg-player threads run using realtime scheduler which means that any "normal" programs that are in background gets very little time, as they have much lower priority.

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...Which is fine; ftp is very slow w/ the player working, but it at least runs... (well.. Did.. mine broke; see my above post..) the user can always "quit" to give the background item more attention..

Also, this little hack is worth noting: (from developer site:)
The following directives may be placed into the empeg player's configuration file, /empeg/var/config.ini.

[Startup]
ReduceCache=n

n = number of chunks to reduce the cache by (dev. max 48)

-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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#!/bin/sh
PATH=./:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin
PS1=empeg:\\w\\$
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,rw /proc
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,ro /dev/hda4 /drive0
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,ro /dev/hdc4 /drive1
inetd &
/empeg/bin/player

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ftpd works fine, but I loose the bash shell through the serial port, and nothing more comes out of the serial port.. BUT I can still send commands .. (i.e., typing q drops out of the player, but I still can't do anything at that stage...)
Also, typing q kills the ftp daemon..

Any hints?
-mark

ps - for those interested - ftp speed with player loaded, about 600kb/sec.. ftp speed w/o player loaded, around 1mb/sec...



...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

Edited by jstrain on 1/9/00 04:54 AM.

   debian 530 User access denied.

This should be included in the eventual FAQ if there ever is one...

Edited by hamzy on 2/9/00 11:00 PM.

Edited by sc400 on 11/9/00 01:30 AM.