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Getting back to this project a bit more now. I envision the machine in question being used almost solely for web browsing. Perhaps a game of Freecell or Solitaire would be the only other use this machine would see. Loading Opera on there would be imperative. So, I can expect problems running Opera under a user account on BL 
3.5, correct? If I use BL 3, I should use only as high as version 8 of Opera, but avoid version 9? The machine will have an ethernet connection to the 'net, btw, so no need for the user to dial or use rxvt.

So far as loading BL 2 on here, I'd like to use Xvesa rather than a fuller X: is that advisable and/or possible with BL2?

Hopefully I'll be able to finish this project over Christmas break. I'll undoubtedly have more questions between now and early Jan. Thanks for the input so far.

James

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
>>
>> I posted a summary of what you need to do
>> in order to dial, use rxvt, etc. as user.
>> It was not easy.  You have to hang up before
>> rebooting or shutting down or ttyS* reverted
>> to not being usable by 'user'.
>
> That's simply fixed by chmod-ing your ttyS
> in your system startup script.  That will
> automatically set your ttyS to the correct
> value.

I did that for a while until Karolis figured out what was causing the
problem, using strace.

>
>> I have no experience setting up broadband
>
> AFAIK, it's just like setting up a network
> connection (insmod, ifconfig, route add).
> That's for network connections to the
> broadband router -- USB connections to
> broadband routers are very different
> (and should be avoided).

Have you set up broadband and used it as 'user' in BL3?
You would need to insert the ethernet modules in rc.

udchcp and ifconfig (busybox) seem to be executable by user, but would it
be simpler for the user to use one of them in rc?  ifconfig if each
computer had its own address or udhcpc if not?

>> Suggest webmail.
>
> Why?  BL3 has the sylpheed package (which I
> use daily) and Opera has a built-in mail client.

People are already familiar with webmail.

> Cheers,
> Steven

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