A Different Skin For Every Sd

[BlackDayz]

I was thinking while I was here at work, it should be entirely possible to symbolically link the skin files for the main menu to a directory on the SD, so as to make every SD stand out as a different menu. I can't try it out right now of course, but I plan to give it a try tomorrow, when I have a day off. I understand it's not exactly a "breakthrough" thing, but for me, it is an easy way to distingish SD from each other.

 

[slygamer]

Can you create a symbolic link to a file on a FAT32 partition?

Also, don't try to boot up your GP2X without an SD card in it, or a new SD card that does not have the expected files, or even just has one of the files missing. That's a sure way to crash the menu.

 

[BlackDayz]

It shouldn't matter that it's FAT32, as it is mounted under /mnt/sd in the GP2X filesystem. As for booting without those files, that was definitely not in the plan. I was going to test it out a little bit at a time, starting with a single image, and then expanding out once I've tested it for stability.

 

[ravuya]

Yeah, but mounts under Linux are still done under the respective filesystem driver. I don't think FAT32 supports symbolic links, but let me know how you get on with it. Maybe the 2X can mount SD cards formatted as something other than FAT32.

 

[Squidge]

FAT32 doesn't support symbolic links, but I don't think there would be anything stopping you from placing the symbolic link on the nand, and just having it pointing to the sd card.

 

[BlackDayz]

From my understanding, though FAT32's filesystem doesn't support Symbolic links, it doesn't matter if it were a filesystem that did or not. As the filesystem is mounted under /mnt/sd, you could easily point the symbolic link to a directory below that. The menu program is very obviously loading after the SD card is mounted, so it should work very transparently.

 

[ravuya]

Oh, I see what you mean. Altering the mountpoint via a symlink would probably work.