From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 08:51:10 CEST
> Basically, what you need to do is add to rc.local (or the last lines of
> rc.M or rc.5, whichever your distro uses... or even create a rc.4
> correctly for kiosk booting)
>
> while true; do
> su normaluser -c /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
> done
> This will leave the machine in an infinite loop, if the X server crashes
> or is ctrl-alt-backspace or whatever, it will simply come back up. It
> also leaves the box with no consoles to switch to...
THANKS A MILLION!!! This is just the kind of solution I have been looking for!
> On the subject of a recovery cd, that is easy.
> Use MuLinux! If the harddrive is small enough, a simple
> cat /dev/hda | bzip2 | nc theburningmachine 1234
>
> Can transfer it across ethernet where you can burn it onto a CD and
> repair the harddrive from Mu with a
>
> cat harddrivebackup.bz | bzip2 -d > /dev/hda
>
> The /hda device contains _everything_, including the partition table &
> LILO, so this would be bulletproof...
I have tested the compression and the hd fits on one cd! Thanks for this too! btw if I have to do the recovery cd for other systems in futer, is it possible to use multiple CDs for the job?
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