[ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linuxthenwill go Windows

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

Either (a) make it an ISA modem, or (b) make it an external modem. 
These work great, from personal experience. The biggest thing is to make
sure it doesn't say "winmodem".  I did find one PCI V.90 modem from
3Com/US Robotics that _WASN'T_ a winmodem, but it got fried by lightning
the same week I switched to broadband, so I haven't bothered looking for
any more PCI non-winmodems.  It is possible to make some of those
beasties work, but it is not worth the time it would take for a setup
such as yours.  Do you know what kind of modems are available?

Just another thought...load up BIND and set it up as a caching only name
server (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-3.html for step-by-step
instructions) to make lookups a little faster (it seems to help my 28.8K
modem connection at home).  You'll be able to script this fairly easily,
too.

HTH

Jonathan Glass

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 20:53, Greg wrote:
> Thanks a million.  I really appreciate the detailed information
> (documentation is really needed as I may have to write a full script for
> this or we will need a full script to follow for the installers).
> 
> Do you have any advice on modems for Linux boxes ?
> 
> Greg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> > Glass (IBB)
> > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:05 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Help needed for a Non-Profit project - if not Linux
> > thenwill go Windows
> >
> >
> > You'll probably want to disable CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE in X, too, although
> > that will simply restart the auto-login/netscape|mozilla session.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:00, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > > There is a KIOSK howto.  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html
> > >
> > > I did this on a series of PII 233 MHz laptops w/32 & 48 MB of RAM using
> > > Redhat 7.2.  I had 2 GB harddrives, so had more room to work, but think
> > > it should be possible to strip down a RH7.2/7.3 installer to do the bare
> > > minimums.
> > >
> > > The boot-to-browser is trivial, once  you've configured X...and the
> > > RH7.2 installer seems pretty good at configuring X.
> > >
> > > What I did to make the "Kiosk" effect was to setup the box to boot to
> > > run-level 3, have "auto-login" login as a standard user (testuser) and
> > > had their .Xclients file launch Netscape in full screen mode (probably
> > > want to use Mozilla, now).  Here is my /etc/sysconfig/autologin file:
> > >
> > > USER=tester
> > > EXEC=/home/tester/.Xclients
> > > AUTOLOGIN=YES
> > >
> > > If the person killed Netscape, it killed the session, and automatically
> > > restarts.  To avoid switching to another console, disable Alt-F2 and up
> > > in /etc/inittab.
> > >
> > > # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> > > #2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> > > #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> > > #4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> > > #5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> > > #6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> > >
> > > To avoid rebooting the box, reconfigure the Control-Alt-Delete trap to
> > > do something other than reboot. (again in /etc/inittab).
> > >
> > > # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> > > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/echo "Ctl-Alt-Del doesn't work here." > /dev/null
> > >
> > > Once you have successfully completed a bare-bones custom install on one
> > > machine, copy the 'anaconda-ks.cfg' file, and use it to automate the
> > > other installs via Kickstart.  If you configure X-windows during
> > > installation, that info will be in the anaconda-ks.cfg file.  If you
> > > setup the filesystem in a special way, that info will be in there, but
> > > commented out.  Remove the comments to auto-magically partition the
> > > drive.
> > >
> > > As part of the Kickstart installation, you can specify a series of
> > > commands to run b/f the box reboots.  Here is where you can setup the
> > > auto-login download and installation (if you have a network connection
> > > available) and configuration of the /~/.Xclients file.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps. If you need more info, ask away, but I cannot promise
> > > much.  I have two major projects going on right now, too.
> > >
> > > Jonathan Glass
> > >
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