[PLUG] boot shell question.

[Greg Fox]

I have a simple(?) question:

Using Debian 2.0 how would I boot into a root shell, and 
execute a program which requires user interaction? I have 
tried adding my program into rc.boot, I have tried adding
/bin/bash to /etc/inittab under a console, I have tried to
figure out agetty so that it does not prompt for a username
and inside yields a root bash, but all of no luck.

This is the last thing I have yet to figure out for my 
mobile mp3 server. It's simply a AMD K5-100 (40% cpu decoding
mp3s), motherboard, 3c509, and a SoundBlaster 16 stuffed
in a cute little pizza box case (think netwinder, etc). 
The user interacts with the box through a numberical keypad 
keyboard. I've writen a bash frontend for mpg123 which will 
read a standarized filesystem structure and jump to X cd, go
up one cd, back one cd, play the current cd, jump
track, back a track... etc, etc. 

It all works out pretty neat, I'm just left to figure out
how to bring my bash frontend to mpg123 up w/o login in.

Any help would be greately appreciated.

- Greg 



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