First poll, lets see if this works okay.

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RioCar (40Gig) Blue/Red/Green
'01 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro

Oops didn't see the some of the above option. To date, I have had, or do have:

Telnet, FTP, text editors, web server, and RC5.

Beyond that, I have done "apt-get upgrade" from it, and all kinds of compiling.

on RC5 do you use the arm/Elf or the arm/aout?

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RioCar (40Gig) Blue/Red/Green
'01 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro

What nifties do you have on your Empeg?

I have many of the above and more, yet it all takes 200 bytes of storage on my empeg (OK, that's probably one 4K block). Let me explain.

I have a complete Linux distribution in a directory on a NFS server. The only thing necessary on the empeg is a short shell script which mounts the NFS-exported directory and then runs a modified init script within there. That in turn runs whichever parts of the standard Linux boot process make sense on the empeg - setting the clock, enabling interfaces, running a few daemons, etc. When I type exit it shuts everything down and brings me back to the normal empeg shell. Another exit restarts the player.

Advantages of putting your complete distribution on a NFS server: 1. you can use all your diskspace for music; 2. restoring your complete environment after an upgrade takes 10 seconds (to cut and paste a short shell script). Disadvantages: using the environment might be somewhat slower since everything is transfered over 10mbps Ethernet rather than from a local hard disk.

One of these days I'll get around to documenting the process to get this running but it hasn't happened yet... Doing it the first time was quite painful since I needed to cross-compile a bunch of things which didn't want to cooperate, but duplicating it now shouldn't be too bad. The main prerequisite is that you need root access on a NFS server with enough space for a Linux distribution.

Borislav

I used the ARM/elf. I need to get around to installing it on my Mk2 one day (I had it on my Mk1 long ago).

Also, if a configurable overlay patch ever surfaces, I'll be tempted to release a complete d.net empeg package. I just wish I knew how to program at that level.

Would be great to see what you have for this...

I am not sure I want to move all my extra stuff off the empeg as I plug it into the network here at work and at home... and want it to be able to run it standalone in the car... but it would be useful to be able to move a lot of what doesn't need to be on there off... then I just need to keep the two NFS sets in sync... and fix the script to work out which NFS server it should be attaching to...

Cheers

Kim

You left out one:

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Tony Fabris

Eat me Tony

But seriously folks, have you noticed that serious discussions have ceased to be for the time being? I feel like we're all waiting in an elevator daring someone to admit that the door won't open ;-)
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RioCar (40Gig) Blue/Red/Green
'01 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro