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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL on CF IDE drive
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:25:14 +0000 (UTC)


and/or boot directly to X without typing root

That is the default for BL3.

and Enter key?

Yes, the ENTER key can be bypassed. The askfirst
parameter in /etc/inittab is causing the wait for
the ENTER key. See "man init" for other options.

> Cheers,
Steven

I changed the tty1 line from askfirst to
tty1::respawn:-/bin/sh
Boots directly to the prompt without X.
If I type exit it exits back to the prompt (respawns).

I added to /etc/rc the lines
insmod slhc
insmod ppp_generic
insmod ppp_async
/usr/sbin/dial
(where dial is the script 'eznet up 2' - lucent modem)

It boots to the prompt and dials directly.

The two ppp lines are because I am using kernel 2.4, which requires a later pppd. Elinks displays a blank page with kernel 2.2. It also requires glibc2.2.5 (because I compiled it to do so).

If I add after the dial line in rc
elinks tiny.fastmail.fm
it is ignored.

Is it possible to load elinks automatically after dialing? The intended user thinks she can learn to type a 1-letter command such as 'm' for mail to access the webmail page but I would like to completely automate this email machine. I will try

(sleep 10; elinks) &

to wait 10 sec after dialing before loading elinks (is this correct format?). Any other ideas?

elinks will be running in a console (maybe framebuffer 800x600). It does not look good in an rxvt in BL3.50 probably due to lack of extended ascii and there is no need for X just to read email.

I will teach her to type Ctrl-Alt-Del to exit elinks and BL.
Maybe put big red dots on those keys.

The fastmail address is acceptable. She has an email address already that her brother set up but has never used it. The computer will be on loan in case she never uses it.

This will be ext2 BL3.50 because kernel 2.41 does not work in a loop properly (read-only file system). Or maybe a read-only file system would be safer?

Sindi




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