Re: Graphical Terminal Project

[email protected] (Valeriy E. Ushakov) Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:44:26 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andy Ball <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Is it possible to make NetBSD automatically log a user
> in on the console so that people don't have to log in twice
> (once to NetBSD and once to Windows)?

See gettytab(5) "al" capability: user to auto-login instead of
prompting.

>    How would I go about turning that USB flash image into
> something that I can boot from a DVD and then run in a RAM
> drive?  Any advice would be most welcome.

Check how Live CD is done.  It's not in the tree, I think.
http://www.jibbed.org/

Or use md(4) to embed custom fs image into the kernel, like
e.g. INSTALL kernels do.

-uwe