Live cd that only runs firefox

[acole1]

I am looking for a live CD (or something similar) that will boot up with basic networking and printing functionality, run only Firefox, and only allow Firefox to go to a single webpage.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

 

[Alone]

Maybe I just don't understand, but why on earth would anyone want to load up a livecd just to go to one website?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Alone
Maybe I just don't understand, but why on earth would anyone want to load up a livecd just to go to one website?

Probably to put on a kiosk or something like that.

You could do it, but it would take some hacking/customization. Have it log in automatically as a non-root account and start your GUI and FF, and modify the DNS settings so it can't find any websites other than the one you have it set to... unless FF has a mode where it is locked to a particular site.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Kiosk mode is what you want.... Some of the LiveCD's support this. Go read the following guide:

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/LinuxKiosk

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Kiosk mode is what you want.... Some of the LiveCD's support this. Go read the following guide:

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/LinuxKiosk

I have been looking for something like this for a long time!! Thank you!!!

 

[acole1]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Alone
Maybe I just don't understand, but why on earth would anyone want to load up a livecd just to go to one website?

Probably to put on a kiosk or something like that.

You could do it, but it would take some hacking/customization. Have it log in automatically as a non-root account and start your GUI and FF, and modify the DNS settings so it can't find any websites other than the one you have it set to... unless FF has a mode where it is locked to a particular site.

Your exactly right, it's for a kiosk.

Do know of a particular distro or method that would make it as easy as possible?

I can get around in linux and do some simple tasks, but I havn't ever done anything like this before. I have been reading up on creating live CD's here and it looks like I can just follow those steps, edit the things I need, and put it all on a CD... is that correct?


Edit:
I wrote this up before I saw Fallen Kell's post. Thanks for the new info!
Does the LinuxKiosk support printing via USB?

Edit:
Printing
There is currently printing support in the form of cupsys-client. Printing can be configured by setting the ServerName configuration variable in /etc/cups/client.conf to the CUPS server you've setup. All print jobs will be directed to the CUPS server specified. This file can be found in the booth-0.x.x.dsl extension in the root of the livecd image.

Currently using printer hooked up directly to the kiosk will not work. I do not plan on supporting this since I feel it is better to setup a seperate print server especially if there are more then one kiosk.

If I wanted to print via USB or bluetooth, how could I set this up?