HD Install :: Frugal Picture Frame, Data Corruption?

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Jan. 01 2007,02:01)

128mb of ram should just be enough to boot with toram. You could also copy the photos from the 2nd partition over to the ramdisk then unmount that.

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I am not sure I understand 100% though how to mount the first partition as read only everytime the machine boots. I certainly don't want any corruption.

What don't you get? Please see my previous post in this thread.

I have no idea where the frugal keyword is.

it's in the grub/lilo boot command line
For Grub /boot/grub/menu.lst

title DSL
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

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?

walterk1:
1. hda is one device, which in this case is the primary IDE drive. By partitioning (ie fdisk) and making 3 partitions, you can get the same setup.

2. See backup/restore - esp ~/.filetool.list

3. yes - if you plan on placing this in a script, you can just remount it at the very end.

Thanks thehatsrule. Will lookup backup/restore (I remembered seeing it on the site, but got lost in DPF project)
Gotcha on the hda. I think I will recreate and setup a photos partition, instead of setting up on the OS space.
Good to know about the mount options. I am trying to build a frame for my 70 year old folks, and once it is done, I want it to be bullet proof app. The only thing that would change is the photos partition as new files from their WinXP box is copied to the frame.

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