Hi all,
I want to use TC on an old laptop, acting as a poor man's "internet radio". As a "proof of concept" I've tried this on another machine running sidux (a Debian based distro). That machine boots to init 3 and then the user is able to start listening. The "radio" is started by running a bash-script. As input to the script, the user specifies an argument, which specifies which "channel" to play. Based on the input to the script, the script uses vlc to start playing a stream from a given url.
Now I want to setup something like this using TC. This is how I would like it to work:
- Boot TC from CD
- Load apps (vlc and dependencies) from HD to RAM and unmount HD (this is useful because if there is nothing mounted, the user can just pull the power, no need to shutdown nicely to unmount disk)
- Load the "radioscript"
I tried this last week with a machine in hybrid mode. It worked very well, but I think it would be very nice if it was possible to run the system from a CD and also run completely in ram to avoid unmounting stuff.
After reading the "Core Concepts" page, it seems like the Copy Mode is the most appropriate mode for this setup, is this correct?
What do you all think of this setup, will it work, or are there any obvious pitfalls?
Thanx in advance