Re: tiny linux distr. with dvdplayer only

From: j,sdhnfjksd (kljfgkfg)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:21:08 +0100

"MikeyD" <m_donaghy50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:421ca93b$0$57334$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> "j,sdhnfjksd" <kljfgkfg> wrote in
> <421c347f$0$28991$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>:
>
>> Thanks, that's what I was looking for, except that I'd like to use it
>> from
>> harddrive instead of CD, because now I need to switch cd/dvd....that's
>> not
>> a problem for me, but may be for my 3 year old daugther....
>>
>> Should it be a difficult task to have the GeeXBox software from disk
>> instead of cd-rom? That means, how do I put a bootable cd-rom on a
>> bootable disk....
>>
> Depending on how it boots, it's pretty easy. Newer versions of geexbox
> have
> an install option at boot I think though, so you just type hdinstall or
> something at the boot prompt and it will install. If not, you need to find
> the file isolinux.cfg on the cd, it will either be in boot/isolinux/,
> isolinux/, or the root of the CD. Rename this to syslinux.cfg and copy all
> the files from there except isolinux.bin to an ms-dos partition on your
> hard drive. Copy everything else from the cdrom there too. Then you need
> to
> install syslinux on the hard drive: syslinux C: under dos should work (get
> syslinux from syslinux.zytor.com and make a dos bootdisk with it on) or
> syslinux /dev/hda1 from a linux livecd with it on. With luck this will
> then work fine; if the scripts don't find the hard disk partition, you
> need
> to fiddle with the initrd. Gunzip it (it will probably be called initrd,
> initrd.gz, ramdisk, or something similar), loopback mount it under linux,
> and edit the file /linuxrc on it. This is normally a shell script that
> handles mounting the cdrom and possibly starting the player; look for the
> cdrom mounting bit and change it to use the hard disk. Then gzip it again.
> Good luck.

Hi
Thanks.
Everything runs good, install on harddisk too. Except that I don;t have
sound and the movie plays at half speed. I think my laptop is too old, it's
a Pentium 2 at 266 MHz with 64MB ram....
Looks like I'd better throw away that laptop :-(

Frank

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