HD Install :: Grandma's Surfstation - help needed



Hello,

first I want to thank the DSL team for the work. It's a pretty nice OS. Now to my problem:

I want to build up a "Surfstation" for my Grandma so she can have a look into the "damn new thing all talking about" - the Internet. Therefor I tried to boot on a Metabox (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabox) - it is a Settop box with a 300 MHZ Cyrix Prozessor video, sound and modem included - a DSL LiveCD. everything works fine and I installed DSL on a 10 GB HDD. The Linux is running, sound I do not need, the modem is also working.

Now I do want to setup DSL as follows:

1. DSL shall boot and login automatically at 800x600 (for TV) - I'm using grub and want to replace the bootoptions - default should be fb800x600. how do I do it?

2. after starting there shall automatically selfload Firefox with a button a question like "Connect over modem to internet?"  by clicking yes the modem shall dial a number an connect to the internet.

3. There should be a button on desktop for hangup + shutdown also. sounds like a .sh but i'm new in Linux...

You see: just what Grandma needs - an old computer that runs over TV - she is switching it on, the browser pups up, dials in and if she wants it she can hang up and shutdown with a click. a pretty simple surfstation build on DSL.

I'm new in Linux and especially DSL, it would be nice if someone could post the solutions / hints.

Martin
Assuming you have a frugal installation...
1. /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

However, unless you need to specify use framebuffer (that bootcode is for console afaik), you can just run xsetup.sh instead (for X)


2.  No idea if firefox has this, but you could always create a script that calls the dial-up, then launch firefox

3.  Desktop icon?  See ~/.xtdesktop and add your own icons; and yes, you can point it to a .sh script that handles your dial-up things.  Shutdown script can be found in ~/.fluxbox/menu
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Jan. 22 2007,09:30)
Assuming you have a frugal installation...
1. /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

However, unless you need to specify use framebuffer (that bootcode is for console afaik), you can just run xsetup.sh instead (for X)


2.  No idea if firefox has this, but you could always create a script that calls the dial-up, then launch firefox

3.  Desktop icon?  See ~/.xtdesktop and add your own icons; and yes, you can point it to a .sh script that handles your dial-up things.  Shutdown script can be found in ~/.fluxbox/menu

1. no, I don't - it's a full hdd install without any CDRom anymore. Am I right, that frugal means: booting from CD with safed settings on hdd or somewhere?

2. good idea... but I don't know how to wirte a script for the dialup. Do you have a link/example?

3. I'll try it. thx
I'm not sure if 800x600 will be legible if your grandmother has a normal TV ... it probably is better with a normal monitor.
She got an brandnew LCD-TV from my parents with an VGA ;)
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