source out the boot video

[DonPIZI]

Hi,
I want to free up my rootfs and so I want to source out the boot video to an other directory.

I typed the commands in the follow order:

sudo gainroot

mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/media
cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome
rm -r media
ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/media /usr/share/hildon-welcome


In the /home/user/MyDocs/media I stored the video what I want as boot viedo.

If I type

cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media

xterm show me
/home/user/MyDocs/media

So I think the systemlink is correct, but on startup the device don´t show the video.

Do I make a mistake or is it impossible to source out the boot video?

[fred123]

Is MyDocs mounted before the boot video runs?

[DonPIZI]

hmm I don´t know.
Wich directories are mounted before the boot video run and aren´t in the rootfs?
When the storage card is mounted?

[Lacedaemon]

Tried moving the media folder you created or just the video to /opt/ ?

[DonPIZI]

Thanks, I moved the the directory to /opt and create an new systemlink. Now it works :)

[rolan900d]

Don:

Could you please explain the whole set up?

Don't get that systemlink part yet!

[Schturman]

Yea... I want to know too, please explain the whole set up.
Thanks

[DonPIZI]

I´ll try to explain all steps to put the boot video to another directory (with my bad english). It´s a bit faster than my first way. Because I move the whole directory to /opt

1st.: run xterm and type
sudo gainroot

2nd.: move the directory, where the boot video is storaged to /opt
mv /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media /opt

3rd: link the new directory path to the old. So the system can find the boot video at startup
ln -s /opt/media /usr/share/hildon-welcome

If you want to have another boot video, you can modify /etc/hildon-welcone.d/default.conf
just enter the video name that you have storaged in /opt/media

I hope you understood what I did.

[Schturman]

You mean I need write this in the default.conf file:

[hildon-welcome]
filename=/opt/media/my_video.avi

?

[DonPIZI]

Hi, no, only the file name
[hildon-welcome]
filename=video.avi

[Schturman]

Ok,
If I don't want the move the folder "media", maybe I can create the another folder with name "media" in the opt ? And after this use the link: /opt/media/my_video.avi

It will work ?

[DonPIZI]

No, it wouldn´t work. I tried it, too. So I moved the media directory.
If you move the directory, you save some MB in rootfs!

[b666m]

mhm... for me symlinking was a bit nasty...
i moved /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media to /opt/media.

i tried linking it with full paths in the command:
ln -s /opt/media /usr/share/hildon-welcome

the media folder again showed up in /usr/share/hildon-welcome but when i wanted to enter it threw an error (don't remember it but something like "no such directory/file"!?)

so i played around in linking different folders and only the videos with full paths... didn't work at all...

then i did:
cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome
ln -s /opt/media media
and BAM it worked?! o.O

the same issue appeared when trying to symlink my pidgin logs from ~/MyDocs/pidgin/logs to ~/.purple/logs for easy synchronization via mass storage mode. full path didn't work. i had to cd to ~/.purple first.... ^^

[DonPIZI]

its normal that "media" is showed in /usr/share/hildon-welcome
enter in xterm
ls -l
and you will see that isn´t a directory its only the link to /opt/media

[Schturman]

ok. thanks.
And if I want, can I move the media folder back to the /usr/share/hildon-welcome ?

[DonPIZI]

Yes of course!

Just type
cd /usr/share/hildon-welcome
rm -r media

For deleting the link to /opt/media

Then type
mv /opt/media /usr/share/hildon-welcome