From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 18:43:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174041570E for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:43:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA50399; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:43:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:43:35 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: hal Lynch Subject: RE: Diskless (kiosk) Cc: FreeBSDQuestions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Jan-00 hal Lynch wrote: > here are my requirements(today). > > 1. diskless (none that are writable that is). > 2. X windows. > 3. Auto login to a captive shell running Netscape only. > 4. Ethernet. > 5. boot from and run off a cdrom. > > What I have in mind is a kiosk that students can use but > can't abuse. In addition the only application available to > them will be netscape which will start automatically when the > machine is booted, which can happen at any time. If somehow the > user manages to exit netscape the machine should restart netscape > or reboot, of which rebooting is preferable. > > If this is do-able using FreeBSD where can I look for some hints > on how I might proceed? > > What haven't I thought of that I should? Netscape needs to write to a directory *somewhere*, even (I think) with cacheing disabled. You're going to have to have something writeable. Perhaps MFS would do the trick. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message