[ale] Need help building a read only Linux appliance

[Matthew]

command line distro, with mplayer. not difficult.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:

> You would really need a small footprint distro to pull that off as the
> RPi has only 512M of memory.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm hoping to design a system that any parent can build themselves.
> Ideally
> > this would mean:
> > 1. no soldering
> > 2. runs on ignition switched power (no need to tie into constant/clock
> power
> > as has been suggested elsewhere)
> >
> > I'll add your link to my reference material, but at a price greater than
> the
> > RPi, it would be my absolute last resort.
> >
> > As simontek noted, Linux live CDs work this way. Also, Linux based
> routers
> > are power fault tolerant. That's the route I want to go.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 1- The last computer I could just turn off ran DOS 6.. Wanna go back
> >> there? Be be guest.
> >> 2- I don't think a read-only system is ideal here. Use this instead-
> >>
> >>
> http://store.mp3car.com/Micro_Shutdown_Controller_p/PWR-007.htm?ProductCode=PWR-007&Click=29952
> >>
> >> Good luck! I'll be rolling a car pc here in the next few weeks on a
> >> RPi. We should exchange notes when we're done or maybe this is a good
> >> meeting subject?
> >>
> >> --Dennis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Don't know why this failed before...
> >> >
> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> > From: "Richard Bronosky" <Richard at bronosky.com>
> >> > Date: Nov 30, 2012 1:17 AM
> >> > Subject: Need help building a read only linux appliance
> >> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> >> > Cc:
> >> >
> >> > I want to turn one of these Raspberry Pis into a car-puter that will
> >> > only be
> >> > used to play videos from a USB drive. It needs to be able to survive
> >> > having
> >> > the power cut off without being shut down. (Remember when you could do
> >> > that
> >> > to a computer?)
> >> >
> >> > Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this?
> >> >
> >> > I'd also like to include a very tiny partition where the video player
> >> > can
> >> > write a progress indicator files every 15 seconds to be used to resume
> >> > playback. That can come later though if it complicates matters.
> >> >
> >> > --
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