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I have been workin a little with DSL and wanted to make a small USB music player with it.

so Basicly boot DSL from CD-ROM, after that I would like it to mount and play MP3s thats are located on a USB thumb drive.

Can DSL hot swap and auto mount a USB drive? Maybe there is a script for this already? if not how would I go about doing this?

thanks for the help!
(I'm sure it probably can hot-swap / automount but here is another way just in case  :) )

I did something like this, a script that would load on startup and copy over files in a subdirectory on a usb drive onto the hard drive, if it could find them / mount them.  I did it rather inelegantly like this:

edit .xinitrc to include somewhere:
1) "mount /mnt/sda/" (This will mount the usb drive.  fstab should already be setup to know what device to use and what file system, DSL did this all for me)
2) "xmms /mnt/sda/" (To play all the songs in there)

If the mount fails (ie no usb drive) then xmms won't play any songs since the read will fail.  :p

But if you wanna swap out usb drives as its playing then that's another thing entirely... This will only have it automatically mounted once X loads up.
yeah I would like to have X running all the time so "I dont have to restart every time I want a different USB drive.

maybe I will have to stick with Widnows.... :(
You can switch usb drives in the middle of your DSL session, but there is no automounter... (yet?) in dsl - you could mount it manually.
I want a small slim "jukebox" I dont want a monitor and a keyboard every time I need to change media...

thx tho
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