Help Remastering DSL

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Help Remastering DSL
started by: nipun_jain

Posted by nipun_jain on Feb. 20 2007,19:48

Hey all! I am new here, so please bear with me

I have to make a live cd which boots into firefox and allows the user to surf the internet. DSL seems a very good choice. The problem is that the type of access required should be kiosk type, that is on booting, the distro directly opens up Firefox in full screen mode (possibly without any menus to access the hard disk or any other menus in the toolbar). In other words, the user on booting via the live cd has access only to firefox to browse the internet and not to do any task on the local system.

So could some kind person point me in the right direction? For starters if everything I said above is not possible, could someone tell me how to boot DSL directly into full screen firefox? I am sure we could figure out a way to restrict access outside the firefox too (this is going to run on kiosk type systems, so we could use some kiosk mode in firefox).

Posted by nipun_jain on Feb. 20 2007,20:14

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I found a FF extension: < https://addons.mozilla.org/mozilla/1659/ > that serves my purpose of making FF run in kiosk mode:D

Now if only someone could tell me how to add this extension to the firefox included in the DSL CD and how to make FF run when DSL boots up, then my work will be done:blush:

Posted by scstsut on Feb. 22 2007,15:10

Check this one out:
< kioskcd.com/ >
Built on DSL, boots to Firefox in fullscreen with limited access.

Posted by nipun_jain on Feb. 22 2007,15:19

Thanks dude for the link. I am currently testing out a kiosk cd based on morphix, seems like a good solution!