To continue my previous mail about Freedombox-NAS, and to keep everyone in the loop of what I'm doing, here's what I've settled on doing for the _first_ iteration:
* I'll use vmdebootstrap to generate an i386 image * the image can be written on a smallish USB stick and a PC can be booted off the stick * the image will mount any partitions it finds at startup, which have a directory called `sharebox` at the root of the filesystem * all such directories get shared read/write to the world over Samba, also for guest users * no handling of USB devices being added at runtime * no configuration * the system will also accept ssh logins using a known user and password This is, obviously, inadequate on many levels, but the purpose is to get something working, and then fix problems in that, rather than trying to get something perfect up and running immediately. Baby steps and all that. Further, I'll use my fledgling systest tool to verify that the intended functionality of the image works. Test driven distro development, if you wish. (This will let me get some real experience with these tools, and the opportunity to fix any problems that prevent them from being used.) -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss