Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
 

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: dsl for web browsing exclusively< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
jtibau Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: April 2006
Posted: April 23 2006,05:33 QUOTE
Hi there,
I need to get to old machines running exclusively for web browsing!! I only need them as simple terminals in a school library, so students can check for book availability.
I even managed to make a toram boot on the oldest one... Gotta say I'm impressed! works way nicer than I was expecting them to do.
What I do need though is to have a user with practically NO PRIVILEGES but web browsing on dillo or firefox... Therefore I made a debian type hdd install. But still need some help setting up the user.
The thing is I don't want people playing games or opening any other application than a browser...
I'm still sort of a newbie so don't know much about user management yet...
Can anyone give me a hint as to what can I do to easily add a user with these limitations???
Back to top
Profile PM 
pr0f3550r Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 378
Joined: Dec. 2005
Posted: April 23 2006,10:50 QUOTE
http://kioskcd.com/
it's a DSL derivative.

Knoppix, too, has a kiosk-mode boot option

--------------
THE QEMU FORUM: http://qemu.dad-answers.com/index.php

QEMU ON WINDOWS: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

How to use floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html

How to use network - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html
Back to top
Profile PM 
jtibau Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: April 2006
Posted: April 23 2006,12:49 QUOTE
sounds nice, can I make a frugal install to a hard drive with kioskcd? I have spare hdd but no spare cd drives.... I also wouldn't like people ejecting the cd and leave me with no OS until I  can make another copy. Plus I would like persistent storage of the static network configuration. Also install lilo so it would just take pressing the power button to have it all working
Thanks again
Back to top
Profile PM 
2 replies since April 23 2006,05:33 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

  		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: dsl for web browsing exclusively

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code