[ale] Need help building a read only Linux appliance

Matthew simontek at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 10:21:29 EST 2012


I think I have back ups of most of those things.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:

> command line distro, with mplayer. not difficult.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You would really need a small footprint distro to pull that off as the
>> RPi has only 512M of memory.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm hoping to design a system that any parent can build themselves.
>> Ideally
>> > this would mean:
>> > 1. no soldering
>> > 2. runs on ignition switched power (no need to tie into constant/clock
>> power
>> > as has been suggested elsewhere)
>> >
>> > I'll add your link to my reference material, but at a price greater
>> than the
>> > RPi, it would be my absolute last resort.
>> >
>> > As simontek noted, Linux live CDs work this way. Also, Linux based
>> routers
>> > are power fault tolerant. That's the route I want to go.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 1- The last computer I could just turn off ran DOS 6.. Wanna go back
>> >> there? Be be guest.
>> >> 2- I don't think a read-only system is ideal here. Use this instead-
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://store.mp3car.com/Micro_Shutdown_Controller_p/PWR-007.htm?ProductCode=PWR-007&Click=29952
>> >>
>> >> Good luck! I'll be rolling a car pc here in the next few weeks on a
>> >> RPi. We should exchange notes when we're done or maybe this is a good
>> >> meeting subject?
>> >>
>> >> --Dennis
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Richard Bronosky <
>> richard at bronosky.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Don't know why this failed before...
>> >> >
>> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> > From: "Richard Bronosky" <Richard at bronosky.com>
>> >> > Date: Nov 30, 2012 1:17 AM
>> >> > Subject: Need help building a read only linux appliance
>> >> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
>> >> > Cc:
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to turn one of these Raspberry Pis into a car-puter that will
>> >> > only be
>> >> > used to play videos from a USB drive. It needs to be able to survive
>> >> > having
>> >> > the power cut off without being shut down. (Remember when you could
>> do
>> >> > that
>> >> > to a computer?)
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
>> >> >
>> >> > I'd also like to include a very tiny partition where the video player
>> >> > can
>> >> > write a progress indicator files every 15 seconds to be used to
>> resume
>> >> > playback. That can come later though if it complicates matters.
>> >> >
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