I solved this problem by activating some swap space...
look at my init script for details...

#!/bin/bash
#
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/roo
t/bin:/usr/local/root/sbin
TERM=vt100
export PATH TERM
IMGDIR=/usr/local/images
mount -n -o remount,ro /
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,rw /proc
/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,ro /dev/hda4 /drive0
INETD=0
RW=0
while :
do
        /empeg/bin/player
        if grep -q '0 (AC Power)' /proc/empeg_power
        then
                if [ "$RW" = "0" ]
                then
                        echo "Mounting readwrite"
                        blitraw < $IMGDIR/readwrite.raw
                        mount -n -o remount,rw /
                        mount -n -o remount,rw /drive0
                        echo "Activating swap"
                        blitraw < $IMGDIR/swapon.raw
                        sleep 1
                        swapon /usr/local/root/swapfile
                        RW=1
                        hostname empeg
                        if [ "$INETD" = "0" ]
                        then
                                blitraw < $IMGDIR/inetd.raw
                                echo "Starting inetd"
                                sleep 1
                                /sbin/inetd
                                INETD=1
                                /usr/local/sbin/fidstreamer&
                        fi
                else
                        blitraw < $IMGDIR/swapoff.raw
                        echo "Turning off swap"
                        sleep 1
                        swapoff /usr/local/root/swapfile
                        blitraw < $IMGDIR/readonly.raw
                        echo "Mounting readonly"
                        sleep 1
                        mount -n -o remount,ro /
                        mount -n -o remount,ro /drive0
                        RW=0
                fi
        fi
        echo "Press q to terminate to a shell"
        /usr/local/sbin/getkey q && /bin/bash
        if [ -f /var/run/player.norun ]
        then
                read DUMMY
        fi
done

maybe you could start /empeg/bin/player with a nice value
like :

nice 19 /empeg/bin/player

but I haven't tried that yet...

I activated the quit=1 option in the ini file. so when I quit player, it will switch from rw to ro and so on. Inetd is only started once, but I cannot seem to telnet in if the partition is mounted ro

Frank van Gestel