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I think this is how the Central boots:
-kernel-image boots from flash
-kernel executes /bin/init
-init boots kernel-image from hd
-kernel executes /bin/son-of-init
-son-of-init does some mounting and starts the player



If that's how it works, I'd suggest not calling the stock son-of-init and instead just writing your own. If son-of-init does do all the mounting, this could be the final piece to allow >128G hdds. I'd definitely be interested in helping with such an endeavor.

16M of RAM is more than it sounds like. (You young whippersnapers with your newfangled 4G of RAM, back in my day, 640k was enough for anyone!) I'd almost guarantee that you could run a web server on it. I have run an sshd instance, ftp server, sendmail, and some other stuff on my central. If you want, I could whip up an image where you could run a webserver in a chrooted environment.