Could someone whip up a complete step-by-step guide and possibly add it to FAQ (winks at Tony)? For example I have no idea what's the 'standard' place to put programs in. Mystical hdx2? Plain root /programs?

There isn't a standard place to put programs yet. I'm waiting to write up the FAQ entry until a few things get ironed out, the first thing being a standard place to put the programs.

Others have argued that /programs0 is the proper place to put user programs. This is nice, but it has drawbacks: Its space is limited, and you have to re-create the mountpoint each time you upgrade the player. Although it's good because that partition doesn't get wiped during an upgrade. All you have to do is re-create the mount point. Still, that's more complicated than we should expect newbies to be able to do.

I would like to see someplace on /drive0 be the standard programs folder. That's the music partition, so It doesn't get wiped during an upgrade and you don't have to re-create the mount point. But it has a severe drawback: If a program is running from that partition, re-mounting it as RW and RO (for example, during a synch) will fail because the partition is "busy". This causes all sorts of problems, including inducing the need for an FSCK. I work around this by only running programs in @DC mode, but others may need to have programs running in AC mode, so that's not a valid solution either.

I wonder where we are on solutions to both of these?