[ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linux thenwill go Windows

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

You'll probably want to disable CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE in X, too, although
that will simply restart the auto-login/netscape|mozilla session.

Jonathan

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:00, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> There is a KIOSK howto.  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html
> 
> I did this on a series of PII 233 MHz laptops w/32 & 48 MB of RAM using
> Redhat 7.2.  I had 2 GB harddrives, so had more room to work, but think
> it should be possible to strip down a RH7.2/7.3 installer to do the bare
> minimums.
> 
> The boot-to-browser is trivial, once  you've configured X...and the
> RH7.2 installer seems pretty good at configuring X.
> 
> What I did to make the "Kiosk" effect was to setup the box to boot to
> run-level 3, have "auto-login" login as a standard user (testuser) and
> had their .Xclients file launch Netscape in full screen mode (probably
> want to use Mozilla, now).  Here is my /etc/sysconfig/autologin file:
> 
> USER=tester
> EXEC=/home/tester/.Xclients
> AUTOLOGIN=YES
> 
> If the person killed Netscape, it killed the session, and automatically
> restarts.  To avoid switching to another console, disable Alt-F2 and up
> in /etc/inittab.
> 
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> #6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> 
> To avoid rebooting the box, reconfigure the Control-Alt-Delete trap to
> do something other than reboot. (again in /etc/inittab).
> 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/echo "Ctl-Alt-Del doesn't work here." > /dev/null
> 
> Once you have successfully completed a bare-bones custom install on one
> machine, copy the 'anaconda-ks.cfg' file, and use it to automate the
> other installs via Kickstart.  If you configure X-windows during
> installation, that info will be in the anaconda-ks.cfg file.  If you
> setup the filesystem in a special way, that info will be in there, but
> commented out.  Remove the comments to auto-magically partition the
> drive.
> 
> As part of the Kickstart installation, you can specify a series of
> commands to run b/f the box reboots.  Here is where you can setup the
> auto-login download and installation (if you have a network connection
> available) and configuration of the /~/.Xclients file.  
> 
> Hope this helps. If you need more info, ask away, but I cannot promise
> much.  I have two major projects going on right now, too.
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 

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