On Saturday 15 June 2002 22:04, you wrote: > Ever get a chance at this? If not, I almost have it ready with an > inittab and startup scripts (in other words, a full system basically) > that should be able to boot without modification. > > Not quite ready yet though...
I did not get the chance to test it, yet. I have been besieged by breaking boxes. I have built the box that I will use as a test platform for future registers. It is based on the following motherboard: http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket370/tusi-m/overview.htm The tusi-m has this "certification" for compliance with the major distros, it is found here: http://www.keylabs.com/linux/results_server.html#asus I like Asus. I want a celeron based box because I want it cool. The holes where the registers stay have a way of getting hot. The current test box has a celeron 766 at 66mhz and 64mb of ram. It has a 20 gb 5400 rpm maxtor hard drive. I will order an ide flash drive soon. I will also order extra pole displays and printers in the next 10 days. This will enable more continuous testing and piddling. I am working on securing some space near the stadium for hands on tweaking. I want this to be an area open for this project as well as the LTSP for Hawaiian schools. It may be more compelling to some of you to get involved if you don't have to go so far. Ray asked about the screen. I will share an observation about accessing this POS application via ssh or telnet from three unix like distros. For users accessing the POS application, their term emulation is set to scoansi in their .bash_profile. A keymapping file is also loaded. Function keys are very important for the application. When I access it via a mac running OSX, the emulation is horrible and the function keys do not work. When I access the app from Mandrake's distro, most of the POS screens are okay, some do not align properly, and the function keys do not work. When I access the application from RedHat's distro, the emulation has no problems and the function keys work fine. I really don't know enough to understand why this is, but it is. It may be important. Anyhow, I have not yet tested your work. You are a good soul to continue endeavoring. Thanks. I am getting very close to some substantial testing and hopefully some progress. I am about to be less busy, so my latency should improve. Despite my recent thundering silence on the matter, I cannot wait to make this a success. scott