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

[Greg]

Thanks a million.  I really appreciate the detailed information
(documentation is really needed as I may have to write a full script for
this or we will need a full script to follow for the installers).

Do you have any advice on modems for Linux boxes ?

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Glass (IBB)
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:05 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linux
> thenwill go Windows
>
>
> 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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