USB booting :: USB DSL as a MP3 player

I am thinking of building a bootable DSL USB to act as a MP3 player to play all the MP3 files automatically and continuously.

Basically, I plug my USB to the laptop. Power up the laptop and it will automatically play all the songs from the USB from a separate DOS16 partition.

Please advise. Thanks.

I meant fat16 not dos16.

And, I add the xmms command line to the /opt/bootlocal.sh
to bring up xmms at the start up.

However, I need to strip off all the other applications e.g. X in DSL. Is there a stripped down version available or a version someone has done to give a bare DSL without any application.

Thanks again.

Xmms has an X based interface.

you could use the X Virtual Frame Buffer, Xvfb. It doesn't actually run a display, just give a place for x apps to "display" on. They used it on the Radii project http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8224

The problem will be remastering DSL to remove all of the other stuff.

I've seen a lot of requests for stripped DSLs to run servers et.al. I wish I had the time to start a derivative porject with nothing but core OS and package tools to let you build your own. Maybe knoppix would be a better starting point, since packages are less optimized than DSL's, and lets you apt-get remove more easily. dunno if you'd wind up with something as small as DSL, though, even if you removed all of the stuff you didn't need from Knoppix.

I am sure that you folks must know about this one too.

<http://digg.com/hardware/Photo_Frame_using_old_lappy_and_Damn_Small_Linux>

I believe that the author used "rm" manually for his "strip down" purposes. It will be nice if there is a shell script available to do the same.

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