Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-11 Thread Kai Hendry
I suggest working from Live Kiosk from: http://www.livecd.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Simon Guerrero
Hi I am developing a "kiosk" type of system, where I want to a) boot up fast and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image. I have 1Gbfilesys to play with (CF or similar) and 128-256mb RAM. I was hoping to do something like this: 1. Make the disk read-only

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Simon Guerrero] I am developing a kiosk type of system, where I want to a) boot up fast and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image. Part a is a bit tricky, but should be solvable. Part b sounds like a the system from a normal live CD. Perhaps you should check out

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, October 4, 2005 1:04 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said: [Simon Guerrero] I am developing a kiosk type of system, where I want to a) boot up fast and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image. Part a is a bit tricky, but should be solvable. Part b sounds like a

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Torsten Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mattia Dongili schrieb: On Tue, October 4, 2005 1:04 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said: [Simon Guerrero] I am developing a kiosk type of system, where I want to a) boot up fast and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image.

RE: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Simon Guerrero
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mattia Dongili Sent: 04 October 2005 12:10 To: 'debian-devel@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed On Tue, October 4, 2005 1:04 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said: [Simon Guerrero] I am developing a kiosk

RE: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Simon Guerrero
October 2005 12:05 To: Simon Guerrero Cc: 'debian-devel@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed [Simon Guerrero] I am developing a kiosk type of system, where I want to a) boot up fast and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image. Part

RE: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Simon Guerrero
Yes, you're right about suspend2 - I figured if I mount most of the filesystems ro, then create the writeable ones each time from static images, I shouldn't have issues with corruption - right? Simon Part a is a bit tricky, but should be solvable. Part b sounds like a about a) an partly

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Torsten Marek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Guerrero schrieb: Hi Thanks for your responses. The suspend and always resume without overwriting is done by software suspend, with no problem. It is the difficulty of resuming the writeable parts of the filesystem (/var and /tmp) each

RE: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Simon Guerrero
Hi Doh! I forgot about tmpfs. That would be fine. I think I should start again. 8-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Torsten Marek Sent: 04 October 2005 12:49 To: 'debian-devel@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Developing a kiosk type system

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Rudi Effe
Am Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2005 12:41 schrieb Simon Guerrero: 1. Make the disk read-only How about a software application of what many hardware PC guards (and likewise) do: Use unionfs as a layer that you put away at any reboot to obtain the original system. Regards Rudi Effe -- To

Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed

2005-10-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Simon! Simon Guerrero schrieb am Dienstag, den 04. Oktober 2005: Yes, you're right about suspend2 - I figured if I mount most of the filesystems ro, then create the writeable ones each time from static images, I shouldn't have issues with corruption - right? In theory, however some