[luau] Linux POS/Cash Register Terminal Image

[MonMotha]

Comments in text.

R. Scott Belford wrote:
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> On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 06:26 PM, MonMotha wrote:
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>> I've quoted my earlier post, but I'm making progress on this image.  
>> My target so far has been a 16MB image, but I can go lower (or 
>> higher). Some of these questions were fairly well answered by Warren, 
>> but I'm curious if there is any other commentary regarding them (or 
>> even any interest)?
>>
>> I also have a few additional questions:
>>
>> 1) Will any client side authentication be desired?  If so, what should 
>> the client authenticate against?
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> 
> Not sure.
> 

Interested to know, because that will obviously change what I have to do 
(I might have to squeeze PAM on there if you want LDAP auth...)

>>
>> 2) Never any answer on how they are networked (it doesn't even have to 
>> be ethernet, I could do a serial console thing too, but then you might 
>> as well buy Wyse terminals...)
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> 
> My bad.  The registers use ethernet to access the server.  There is a 
> slew of different nics in the boxes right now.  I may just replace all 
> these with the same type to keep it simple.
> 

Not really a problem unless I have to fit it into like 4MB (glibc is 
about 2MB, then OpenSSH and basic utils eaisly hit 4MB or more).  I can 
modularize it in the kernel.  Even for the TFTP bootstrap disk there is 
module support.

>>
>> 3) Basic utils once again?
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> 
> Not sure
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Eager to know...

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>> Any other suggestions are of course appreceiated.
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> 
> I know they will come.  Many, many thanks.
> 

Still welcomed...

> scott
> 

--MonMotha