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Originally Posted by robotissues
I would like to create a kiosk-like system to run one java application all of the time, full screen....... I am hoping this is as simple as using dd to copy the hard drive (hda) to the cf card (hdc). Is this naive? Suggestions welcome.
~j
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Hello Robotissues,
"dd" should work. You have to think about the filesystem on the cf-card (maybe ext2. Naive is everytime a good way to grow. I didn't do such a project like you. I think, the best way is to boot from solide flash and than remount the root to cf-card. For this you have to do a Kernel without modules. To realise this, you can use your hardware in a normal system and run "hwinfo" - surche for the components and configure your kernel.
You have also to configure your bootmanager like Grub (here better then Lilo) - *RTMF*
If you are in the situation, the system come up to init... you only have to do makeups (beauty...*g*)...
I know this from my inofficial Projekt before 5 years. Here I create a scrip, is building a bootable CD with a System like Knoppix from scratch (means: I build my own linux to understand the system)
Have fun and don't frustrate...