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Posted: April 26 2006,20:53

You also may want to check your ide cables. I remember when I was installing dsl to a hard drive and it would install...but there were many errors. I re-downloaded the disk, reinstalled many times. Finally, I switched out hard-drives...nothing. So I checked the IDE cable to the HD...it looked like someone had pushed a thumbtack through 2 of the wires...needless to say, that was my problem. I swapped the IDE cable out, then installed (frugal). No problems since (With the kernel, at least...)

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Posted: April 26 2006,21:18

Good advice, underdog. My hardware junkyard (read: parent's basement) runneth over with IDE ribbon cables. I'm sure I can find at least one that still works.

Also, doobit, are you sure 128MB is enough? I'm going want a GUI and a player like Xine or VLC. I don't know if I can cram that plus the kernel into RAM. If I can run everything in RAM, can I also run it diskless, like a thin client?

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Posted: April 26 2006,22:11

The whole OS on my mini-itx is using 54.4 MB with Firefox running in Fluxbox. I just opened xmms to stream a radio station and now it's using 57.6 MB. In JWM it would work with less RAM. In JWM running streaming radio on xmms it's using 30.8 MB

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Posted: April 27 2006,16:51

Awright... progress report:

Rebooted the box, the live cd booted fine with no options. I'm able to browse with firefox and I can listen to my streams via the motherboard sound outputs.

Rebooted, passed dsl toram option at the command line. Booted fine... sound still works!

Next, I'm going to remove the IDE hard drive and see if I can't boot this bitch diskless /AND/ listen to my precious tunes. If I do get this diskless stream player going, does anyone have any suggestions regarding remote management of said player?

Thanks in advance,
nroza

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