Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:46:27 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk Message-ID: <20060608194627.GA2503@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606081058070.24091@droog.sdf-eu.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606081058070.24091@droog.sdf-eu.org>
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:16:15AM +0000, drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org wrote:
[...]
> I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the
> information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't
> be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the
> deployment welcome).
There are a couple of solutions involving NFS that could be used, if
you've got the bandwidth. eg: You could make all the base file-systems
read-only, and mount the run-file-system over NFS; or you could make
the kiosks mount everything except the root-file-system over NFS.
If I recall correctly, there are examples available in the Handbook.
>We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a
> kiosk browser.
Put a script in /etc/ttys that starts up X and runs firefox; maybe
`startx && firefox'?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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