12-12-2012
Linux booting options
Here is my question, a few years back I was sitting in an airplane and saw the movie display for all the passengers in the back of all the seats boot up. You could see the all too familiar boot-up-scrolling text that we are all used to with Linux. But probably only a few other folks on the plane could have recognized the Linux aspect of the entertainment system because it booted directly to the airlines proprietary movie software package.
I know lots of folks use Linux for all sorts of stuff out in the real world and I have been using Linux for quite some time now. However, I recently came across some work that requires me to boot Linux but not go to a GUI. Instead, I want to go to some other software that I am and will be coding.
So, in other words, I want to boot Debian but then without a keyboard for the user always start up special software. To the user, they may see the Linux-scrolling boot up screen but it really just needs to be a black box for them. And the application won't have a keyboard. So, in a sense, it is a little similar to the on-flight movie example I gave at the beginning.
So there must be someway I can have access to the GUI when need be but the common user just boots up to the specialized software.
This is a bit of a new frontier for me in Linux so any direction or advice is greatly appreciated.
Keep on keeping on my friends.
Caleb.
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bootpc
BOOTPC(8) Debian GNU/Linux Manual BOOTPC(8)
NAME
bootpc - bootp client
SYNOPSIS
bootpc [--bootfile file] [--dev device] [--verbose] [--debug] [--server addr] [--hwaddr addr] [--returniffail] [--waitformore length]
[--in2host addr] [--serverbcast] [--help]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the bootpc command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used
by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.
bootpc is a boot protocol client used to grab the machine's IP address, set up DNS nameservers and other useful information.
OPTIONS
--bootfile file
Tell the server to use file as the boot file.
--dev device
Use device to communicate with the server.
--verbose
Be verbose.
--debug
Produce debugging output.
--server addr
Use the IP address addr to communicate with the server.
--hwaddr addr
Use addr as our hardware address rather than what the operating system gives us.
--returniffail
Terminate the program if a failure occurs. By default bootpc will ask the user to press a key if the request did not succeed.
--waitformore length
Wait for more responses when one is received. bootpc will wait for at most length seconds. This is probably only useful for debug-
ging.
--in2host addr
Takes an address and returns useful bits of the name after lookup, this was a separate program, but it is more compact to have both
together.
--serverbcast
Tell the server to send back a broadcast reply. This is necessary on Linux 2.1 and 2.2.
--help Display the usage of bootpc.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
BOOTPC
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