[PLUG] boot shell question.

[Maximillian Karpiak]

Well, you might be able to do this more elegantly, but you could create
an account with
username '1' and password '1' whose login shell is the mp3 layer front
end you've written. That's the simplest solution I can think of..

Later,
Max

Greg Fox wrote:
> 
> 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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