HD Install :: Frugal Picture Frame, Data Corruption?

Quote (walterk1 @ Jan. 04 2007,22:37)

Hey beakmyn, I saw your posts on the warehouse site, and followed you here. I have some dumb questions on this thread. (Maybe one day I will graduate to silly questions.)
I will search for #2.

1 - did you create 3 mounts? hda1, hda2, hda3? By the responses, I see you have frugal install on hda1 and photos on hda3. What do you have on hda2? Is that the USB drive mount?

2 - is there a way with DSL to backup all the files/mucking I created following the project? (scripts, xinitrc, bootlocal files) I could backup each one, but did not know if there was a faster method.
For anyone reading this thread: I too am interested in making a bulletproof frame. I wonder if I could create a script to mount hda3 as rw first, then get photos via Samba or rsync, and finally remount hda3 as ro again.
Is that possible?

1.
hda1 - 60mb DSL frugal install
hda2 - 10mb DSl backup/restore and mydsl repository
hda3 - rest of drive photos and scripts

2. yes, hda2 it backs up my

/home/dsl/.filetool.lst

Code Sample

opt/ppp
opt/bootlocal.sh
opt/myiwconfig.sh
opt/powerdown.sh
opt/.dslrc
opt/.mydsl_dir
home/dsl/
/etc/ssh/
/etc/shadow

/etc/ssh /etc/shadow allows for persistant storage or ssh fingerprint and user passwords

/opt/bootlocal.sh

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
# put other system startup command here
mount /dev/hda3
sudo mount /dev/hda3 -o remount,ro
loadkeys us
/etc/init.d/ssh start
/opt/myiwconfig.sh

myiwconfig.sh

Code Sample

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to set up wireless card
# [EMAIL=beakmyn@frontiernet.net]beakmyn@frontiernet.net[/EMAIL]
#

# Set display so that script will effect the local screen
export DISPLAY=:0

sudo iwconfig eth0 essid "My SSID" enc de:ea:dd:be:ef

sudo pump -i eth0
exit 0

My files/scripts/feh.dsl/unclutter.dsl are up here:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~pictureframe

Using my method everything is currently read-only and I can literally pull the plug and it's fine when it restarts. Done it several times in fact to show people.

I'm currently using a NFS mount to transfer photos and files. I use the standard NFS in Ubuntu and on my Window's machine I use the free version of NFSAxe. It works well I just
remount
sudo mount /dev/hda3 -o remount,rw
then copy the new photos over then
sudo mount /dev/hda3 -o remount,ro -to make it readonly again.

The only caveat I've seen it to NOT mount the NFS share to a folder that is in the backup/restore path. Otherwise on shutdown DSL will backup all the files in that folder (treats it like a regular folder) so I mount the NFS share in /mnt/share folder instead (may have to mkdir /mnt/share first)

It's been going real well. I'm now looking into the old DaliPC (google it) and the new wallgui (new name) to show a clock, rss news/weather on the screen instead of using feh.

original here.