Thanks for the response, Michael. I grabbed a copy of slimCD and will check it out. I think the concept is great. I do Not enjoy putting together the OS portion of these servers.
FL On 6/29/05, Michael Herger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > I would like to run All file systems read only to avoid this in the > > future. But I'm not sure how I can do that with slimserver. > > > > Slimserver updates the .slimserver.pref EVERY time the song changes. > > I'm currently doing some tests with damnsmalllinux.org (DSL - which is > based on Knoppix). I'm currently running it from a CF card in read-only > mode. all writable stuff can be redirected to ramdisk (by default). I then > mount the disk containing the music read-only. > > This setup should work fine, but needs some good planning as settings > obviously can't be changed in the running machine. > > > For slimserver, I'm thinking of re-mkfs'ing the home directory at boot > > time, mounting it and then > > copying the slim db, config files, etc. One issue is loss of > > playlists, etc. I suppose I could implement a cron job to update the > > master read-only copies once per day. > > Was planning to do the same: back up settings, db & co. once in a while to > a free space on my CF card. > > > Anyone have any ideas or done any work on this? > > Have a look at DSL and my "SlimCD": http://www.herger.net/slim/. There was > some discussion about it in the plugins forum. > > -- > > Michael > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Help translate SlimServer by using the > StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
