car / understairs headless mp3 player

[Matty272]

Greetings all.

I am looking to build an mp3 player for the car which could be removed easily and stuck under the telly/stairs etc. As a dedicated mp3 player, there is no need for a monitor, but a small lcd display hanging off the parallel port will suffice for the minimal messages(song information) the listener needs. I have looked at a few of the minimal distributions in the list at linux.org, but none seems to be suitable for me. Could someone suggest a distribution without x as its just not needed, which could be added to for the functionality I need.
The hardware I have at the moment for building this is an old P133 machine, 96MB RAM with a soundblaster built in. I have a CF to IDE adaptor to keep the boot process solid state, and will mount a HD read only for the songs.

Thanks for reading this, and bigger thanks for any helpful replies you make.
Matty272

[v6sa]

i guess you have to build your own system from scratch, but take look at here: http://www.team-mp3.com/mp3/mp3_projects.htm

PS. i think 96mb of ram is overkill, 16 will do just fine

[Matty272]

Thanks for the reply and links, unfortunately the main links from the page are not working at the moment (2005/05/12 14:24).

The reason there is 96 MB on the board is thats what was left unusable when I upgraded the board way back when!