On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:24:48PM +0100, Michel Hoogervorst wrote:
> > So I started working on my own solution.
> > I choosed to use Debian Etch as base, and I wrote what I was missing.
>
> Cool, maybe we could share thoughts sometime? :-)
> I have downloaded Piren, and ran it inside VMware, which seems to run
> fine. Now I don't have any media on my VMware disk to play, but
> everything seems to be there :-)
Of course we can! :)
Playing with it a bit more, I discovered that Piren Beta 1 is unable to
play any sound, nor to enable TV watching. This because I stripped out
the kernel package, and all the modules with it.
Soon I will release the Beta 2: my goal is to publish the most complete
version available, but it has to fit within 128 Mb: this goal can be
reached without trouble, also adding live-initramfs, lirc, rsync,
mencoder, piren-*.deb and all the dependencies.
> One question: Why autologin as root, on every tty? Why not only on
> the main one, and leave the rest open?
Because I'm lazy. Jokes apart, you are completely right on this point.
The main reason is that Piren is made to be customized. My suggestion
is to run Piren, configure it, made a DSL package (tar.gz file) of all
the new created or modified files.
For the ASUS Digimatrix version, I supply a new inittab that enables
a lonely root login on tty9 within the DSL package.
Adding live-initramfs (a Debian fork of Casper) will automatically
create a regular user on boot, so I can start freevo without even the
need of a root login.
> > By default Piren wants to use the framebuffer with 800x600 resolution,
> > but there are some HW configurations that are unable to do it.
>
> Yeah, this can be a bit of a problem on some configs, I had that
> problem with FreevoLive, that's why I decided to make bootoptions for
> booting in runlevel 3 (framebuffer) and 5 (X11).
>
> At the moment I'm a but stuck with FreevoLive, as the maintainer of
> the mklivecd scripts for Mandriva stopped working on it, so I'm unable
> to create a version off Mandriva 2008 :-(
> Hope to find a working alternative soon...
If you like Debian, I think that live-initramfs is a good starting
point. :)
Best ragards,
--
Davide Lucchesi | First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
| then they fight you, then you win. -- M. Gandhi
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