Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:42:58 -0400 From: Sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk Message-ID: <4488B602.2080605@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0606081357330.20320@brak> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0606081058070.24091@droog.sdf-eu.org> <Pine.SOL.4.53.0606081357330.20320@brak>
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Andy Reitz wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm involved with a museum which has a standalone interactive kiosk. The >> system runs an Apache2 server with PHP and MySQL on Windows XP. The >> problem is that Windows XP keeps becoming corrupted as a result of the >> machine being switched on and off at random (by staff, kids etc.). >> >> Currently, the museum management is very open to switching to FreeBSD or >> similar - provided I can *completely* bulletproof the box against >> arbitrary power-cycling (I can't always be there to manually run fsck >> etc.). >> >> 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). We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a >> kiosk browser. > > Hi drseuk, > > Well, the best thing to do would be to make your kiosk machine totally > diskless: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html > > This would make the kiosk machine totally resilient to unexpected reboots. > > However, it sounds like you only have one machine, and you have to make > everything work there. In that case, you might be able to experiment with > making certain file systems read-only, and only making them RW when you > want to modify the system. > > It looks like some work has been done with getting Firefox to work in > kiosk mode, here is what Google turned up for me: > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html > > Good luck, > -Andy Reitz. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > A local library I have done some work for has a device from http://www.centuriontech.com/products/centurionguard/ It basically is a hardware solution that no mater what the user thinks they are doing, they cannot write to the disk. Sean
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