> I am trying to run an in car computer to allow me to play MP3's in my car.
> I want to get away from using a hard drive cuz it will eventually break.
>
> My solution is to just boot off a floppy for my operation system. I would
> like to use linux to be able to use multitasking (ie. play mp3 and listen
I run a floppy-booted mp3 player at home, based on tomsrtbt. You'll need
to make a kernel with sound support and swap it on, I use a 2.2.12 kernel
with SonicVibes.o support for a Turtle-Beach Daytona soundcard with the S3
Sonic Vibes chip, I am using the 'mp3blaster' text-console mp3 player, I
did have to also add the threads library and the math library and the
curses library and the c++ library and the terminfo entries I cared about,
and I added 'screen' so I could remote control it from other machines (the
box in question is basically part of the stereo now), and I added a
real telnetd and login and inetd and passwd, and of course I deleted a
lot of stuff. I would be glad to make this available, with some caveats.
It is no longer a gereral-purpose or supported thing, and if anyone wants
to use it they will probably have to customize it more extensively, and
undo some things I did to the startup. If anyone wants this unsupported
standalone mp3 player from floppy, with SonicVibes support included, get:
ftp://ftp.toms.net/rb/sound-1.7.190.tar.gz, and I'll try to help some.
-Tom
