Setting the homepage to a local page

[Al Joleson]

Hi all,

I've just downloaded and played around with the stock iso and I must
say I am very impressed. I'm trying to set up a netbook with a
lightweight system that loads up quickly to a browser and this seems
to fit the bill. I'm not very experienced with linux, but I'm willing
to do the research to make this work.

I have a couple of questions which I'm hoping others could answer or
point me in the right direction:

1) Is it possible to use a local page (an html file with some pictures
and custom css) as the home page instead of using a live web page? I'm
guessing if I set up a webserver on the machine, then it would
possible to use localhost, but I'm thinking for what I'm trying to
accomplish which is to have static start page with links to other web
pages, that would be an overkill. I think I can try this and see how
it would work, but I thought I would ask before I try and experiment.

2) Has anyone been able to load the system off of an SD-Card? I want
to remove the hard drive in the netbook and just run the entire thing
off of an SD Card. I'm thinking since the system is live, then there
won't be any wear issues on the SD-Card and for added protection, I'm
going to lock the card so no write operations can be performed. Will
that be okay?

3) I would like to get an old printer (HP LaserJet 1100) which is
attached to a linksys print server to work with CUPS. I've done this
on other systems, so I'm wondering if it is better to build the entire
system from scratch as outlined on the discussion board or modify the
iso.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Al

[Guttorm Flatabø]

I only have time to reply to the easiest parts.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Al Joleson <aboutt...@gmail.com> wrote:

1) Is it possible to use a local page (an html file with some pictures
and custom css) as the home page instead of using a live web page? I'm

The least you'd have to do is to modify the iso, or make your own build. I'm not sure if accessing local files is restricted. Try searching for "file" or "file:///" in the archives. But webconverger is for webbrowsing, so I don't quite see the problem with using an online bookmarks service, startpage service, or just your own html on a server for this.

 

2) Has anyone been able to load the system off of an SD-Card? I want

I mainly use tiny micro-SD in tiny micro-SD readers that you can easily buy on dealextreme. You install (at least from Linux with "dd") just as if it was a USB stick.

 

off of an SD Card. I'm thinking since the system is live, then there
won't be any wear issues on the SD-Card and for added protection, I'm
going to lock the card so no write operations can be performed. Will
that be okay?

Pretty sure it will be, but don't think you need worry about locking it really.

 

3) I would like to get an old printer (HP LaserJet 1100) which is
attached to a linksys print server to work with CUPS. I've done this
on other systems, so I'm wondering if it is better to build the entire
system from scratch as outlined on the discussion board or modify the
iso.

Depends on what you need to do I guess. If you just need to edit a configuration file, then modifying the iso could be enough. If you need to install packages, you'll need to go for the building. The built in printer detection will detect a printer shared through a CUPS server, but it will not detect a printer merely shared through a linksys print server.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Good luck!

--

Guttorm

[Al Joleson]

Hi Guttorm,

Thanks for your reply. I thought I might explain what I want to do as
that may
shed some light to some of the things I (think) I need on the system.
I'm trying
to set up a netbook dedicated to internet banking. Everyone in my
house does banking
online and although everyone is careful not to download malware and
trojens, it
could happen, especially since everyone has their own computer and
there are no
account restrictions on any of them.

So I decided to dedicate a cheap and low powered netbook to this task.
I wanted
a system that stores nothing on any media as that is what so called
security
"experts" are advising (most advise using a linux live CD). So I'm
running
everything from an SD Card.

After looking around, it seems like webconverger is the perfect fit.
It is live,
it is light and it boots into browser without any hassel. I like the
stock iso
and I'm hoping I don't have to make too many changes to make it
perfect for my
situation.

This brings me up to my issues. I've tried a few things:

1) I tried accessing files through file:/// and fortunately it works.
So once
I've modified the iso to include the files and set the homepage
parameter to the
appropriate file, I think I should be rocking. I want to use the page
and setup
direct links to each bank's online system. I thought it would be
easier to set
this up locally than to have it hosted somewhere.

2) I've got it working with the SD Card. So we are good there.

3) Printing is a necessary thing (for record keeping). I've read
through other
threads here and understand that in most situations it is easier to
have a cups
server that numerous clients can connect to. However, since I will
only have
one system to administer, I think the overhead of running a server all
the time
is not worth it. I've setup the printer on linux before. However, I'm
having
problems with the stock ISO. When I try to add a new printer, it asks
for user
name and password. I've tried root/live that was mentioned before.
I've tried
resetting the password for webc and using that. Nothing has worked.
I'm trying
to see if I can get it to work one time to make sure it can be done.
Afterwards
I will try and modify the required config files for cups and hopefully
get the
printer to work without needing to build from scratch.

4) I'm having problem with wlan. I've tried using the
wlan=myssid,mykey combination.
However I get the following output:

ESSID: myssid
KEY: mykey
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "mykey".
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return
code 1

This hasn't been reported by anyone else, so I'm not sure what the
problem might be.
It seems like the system is not expecting or don't know what to do
with the key.
However, it does recognize the wireless card and outputs the mac
address.

If anyone has any insight into any of these issues, I would really
appreciate
your help.

Regards,
Al

On Sep 22, 2:37 pm, Guttorm Flatabø <p...@guttormflatabo.com> wrote:
> I only have time to reply to the easiest parts.
>

[Al Joleson]

Hi Guttorm and others,

After messing around with cups I finally succeeded in getting my
printer setup. What I needed was to change the root password, install
hplip and foomatic-filters packages and finally add the printer. So
now that I know that I can get it to work, I'm trying to rebuild
webconverger with the required packages and to include the /etc/cups/
printers.conf file with the my printer info.

However, while creating the new image I'm hitting a problem. Here are
the excerpts of binary.log which I think are describing the problem:

<begin>

Setting up linux-image-686-pae (3.0.0+39~artax1) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6-686 (3.0.0+39~artax1) ...
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 30
Setting up live-boot-initramfs-tools (2.0.15+20110309.165432~60squeeze
+1) ...
configured to not write apport reports
update-initramfs: deferring
update (trigger activated)

...

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1artax1-686-pae
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file
or directory
Setting up live-boot (2.0.15+20110309.165432~60squeeze+1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: live-boot start runlevel arguments (none) do not
match LSB Default-Start values (S)

...

Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...

<end>

I've searched around and it seems like this was an issue for others as
well. But there are no solutions that I could find apart from Jared
Hoover's suggestion to start with a fresh pull from git. I'm not sure
how that will solve this problem. I would like to understand what the
problem is to begin with.

I've put up my log http://pastebin.com/GuwTVaYJ .

Any help is appreciated.

On Sep 22, 2:37 pm, Guttorm Flatabø <p...@guttormflatabo.com> wrote:

> I only have time to reply to the easiest parts.
>

[Kai Hendry]

Hi Al,

At first you mentioned some linksys print server, and then you say
running a print server is not worth it. I just wanted to encourage you
to run a print server. It's the scalable and sane way to do it.

I'm curious what kind of linksys you have and why it can't do the
print service to just work. :)

http://www.nikrivers.com/linksys-nslu2/print-server-with-cups

I don't know what the NSLU2 of today is called. I've heard people say
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ but it's not shipping yet IIUC.

Kind regards,

[Al Joleson]

Hi Kai,

Let me first thank you for setting up webconverger and continuing to
maintain it. It is exactly what I need (I think) and once it is fully
functional, I'll be really happy. I'm a Linux newbie and although I
knew very little, I'm really enjoying playing with this.

As to the issue of print server, the print server that I have is
actually a Linksys EFSP42 2-Port Print Server. I use it to share my
old (but well-built) HP LaserJet 1100, which uses a parallel
connections, on my home network. Unfortunately, there hasn't been any
firmware updates since early 2000s and there are no custom firmwares
to make it compatible with cups (at least that is my understanding).

I've actually experimented with using a plug computer (SheevaPlug) to
create a cups server so that I can have access to my printer from
Apple's iOS (using AirPrint). It actually worked well and I was able
to print emails from my company iPhone. However, since I don't have
too many devices that need it and really didn't use it all that much,
I decided to save on energy and unplugged it. I may set it up again
and as you suggested maintain a separate print server (among other
wonderful things that you can run on it).

I saw raspberrypi on BBC's Click and got really excited. I will
definitely check it out when it is available. I'm not a computer
expert but I find these things really fascinating and always wish I
understood more.

Now as far as my build goes, I tried rebuilding with a fresh pull and
my few customizations and got the same result. I compared the latest
build log from http://build.webconverger.org with my build log (which
I had posted before) and what I've noticed is that they are almost
identical except for linux kernel being used. For some reason my build
tries to use 686 kernel ("linux-image-2.6-686" instead of "linux-
image-2.6-486"). Now it was my understanding that the "-k 486" option
in the config file is used to set the kernel flavour. However I'm not
sure why it is being supposedly ignored. I did a search on the mailing
list and it seems like the 686 is a source of problem for others. I'm
just not sure how to fix it.

I'm building my image on a brand new Debian build inside VirtualBox
running as a guest on Windows XP.

Any comments or insight is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Al

> I don't know what the NSLU2 of today is called. I've heard people sayhttp://www.raspberrypi.org/but it's not shipping yet IIUC.
>
> Kind regards,

[Jonathan Brown]

I would recommend you just modify the iso instead of trying to rebuild fom scratch.  You may find this method works fine for your needs.  It did for me:

http://www.braindeadprojects.com/blog/what/customizing-the-webconverger-kiosk-the-fast-way/

If you need to make any changes that have to interact with the system, just chroot in.

>
> Kind regards,

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[Al Joleson]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the link. It certainly seems easier to do this. I've read a
bit about chroot and if I understood correctly it changes the file
system root to a particular folder for the session you are running.
However, I have a question. Will I be able to install additional
packages to the system? I need to install hplip and foomatic-filters
to get my printer working.

I noticed that you had commented on the article that you should chroot
in. Forgive my ignorance, but I've never done that before. How is that
different from what is described in the braindeadproject blog posting?
What should I do differently from what was posted there?

Thanks for your help,
Al

On Sep 25, 4:56 am, Jonathan Brown <jbs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would recommend you just modify the iso instead of trying to rebuild fom
> scratch.  You may find this method works fine for your needs.  It did for
> me:
>

> http://www.braindeadprojects.com/blog/what/customizing-the-webconverg...

>
> If you need to make any changes that have to interact with the system, just
> chroot in.
>

> > build log fromhttp://build.webconverger.orgwith my build log (which

> > I had posted before) and what I've noticed is that they are almost
> > identical except for linux kernel being used. For some reason my build
> > tries to use 686 kernel ("linux-image-2.6-686" instead of "linux-
> > image-2.6-486"). Now it was my understanding that the "-k 486" option
> > in the config file is used to set the kernel flavour. However I'm not
> > sure why it is being supposedly ignored. I did a search on the mailing
> > list and it seems like the 686 is a source of problem for others. I'm
> > just not sure how to fix it.
>
> > I'm building my image on a brand new Debian build inside VirtualBox
> > running as a guest on Windows XP.
>
> > Any comments or insight is greatly appreciated.
>
> > Regards,
> > Al
>
> > On Sep 24, 7:14 pm, Kai Hendry <hen...@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > Hi Al,
>
> > > At first you mentioned some linksys print server, and then you say
> > > running a print server is not worth it. I just wanted to encourage you
> > > to run a print server. It's the scalable and sane way to do it.
>
> > > I'm curious what kind of linksys you have and why it can't do the
> > > print service to just work. :)
>
> > >http://www.nikrivers.com/linksys-nslu2/print-server-with-cups
>
> > > I don't know what the NSLU2 of today is called. I've heard people

> > sayhttp://www.raspberrypi.org/butit's not shipping yet IIUC.

>
> > > Kind regards,
>
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[Al Joleson]

Hi Jonathan (Kai and others),

Well I guess there is nothing like trying things yourself. I read the
post carefully and did more research and using your link and the guide
here http://www.debuntu.org/book/export/html/216 I installed the two
packages that I needed and then rolled the iso again. I just tried it
in virtualbox and I've got my local page showing as the homepage and
I've got my printer setup. Now the only thing that remains is to get
the wireless working.

One thing I came across while creating the ISO, it seems like mkisofs
is not available on Debian squeez and you instead have to use
genisoimage. It took me a while to figure this out, but I'm guessing
that is because I didn't know what I was doing.

So thank you for pointing out that great blog post and giving me the
required hint to figure this out myself. I must say it felt good to
see my custom image boot the first time. I'll report back with my
findings about the wifi once I've tested it on my netbook.

Although this method is by far easier, I'm still interested in
figuring out the problems with my build from scratch. Any thoughts?

Thanks again guys,
Al

> > > build log fromhttp://build.webconverger.orgwithmy build log (which

> > > I had posted before) and what I've noticed is that they are almost
> > > identical except for linux kernel being used. For some reason my build
> > > tries to use 686 kernel ("linux-image-2.6-686" instead of "linux-
> > > image-2.6-486"). Now it was my understanding that the "-k 486" option
> > > in the config file is used to set the kernel flavour. However I'm not
> > > sure why it is being supposedly ignored. I did a search on the mailing
> > > list and it seems like the 686 is a source of problem for others. I'm
> > > just not sure how to fix it.
>
> > > I'm building my image on a brand new Debian build inside VirtualBox
> > > running as a guest on Windows XP.
>
> > > Any comments or insight is greatly appreciated.
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Al
>
> > > On Sep 24, 7:14 pm, Kai Hendry <hen...@iki.fi> wrote:
> > > > Hi Al,
>
> > > > At first you mentioned some linksys print server, and then you say
> > > > running a print server is not worth it. I just wanted to encourage you
> > > > to run a print server. It's the scalable and sane way to do it.
>
> > > > I'm curious what kind of linksys you have and why it can't do the
> > > > print service to just work. :)
>
> > > >http://www.nikrivers.com/linksys-nslu2/print-server-with-cups
>
> > > > I don't know what the NSLU2 of today is called. I've heard people

> > > sayhttp://www.raspberrypi.org/butit'snot shipping yet IIUC.

[Kai Hendry]

Glad to hear remastering the ISO worked for you. If you could be so
kind as to add this information to the wiki, please try login and tell
me your openid in order to give you editing rights.

On 26 September 2011 03:23, Al Joleson <aboutt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> figuring out the problems with my build from scratch. Any thoughts?

Did the linux-image-2.6-486 exist in the chroot? Otherwise it could be
some emulation issue. I used to build webc in an emulated environment
in a VPS, but then after some issue which I can't even remember I
invested instead in a dedicated machine.

http://webconverger.org/hetty/

I've finished my jaunt http://geekout.org.uk/ and I hope to do a new
release in the next week or two. How the daily builds for you?

Kind regards,

[Al Joleson]

Hi Kai,

I figured that I will have to do this a number of times and thus kept
a log of what I've done. So once I've got everything working, I'll be
glad to contribute what I've got. I was thinking that a great addition
to the wiki could be a page (or series of pages) that users can create
to talk about the different applications of webconverger. I think this
is a good idea because my application (for online banking) is not what
webconverger is designed for. But I thought it was fantastic for this
purpose and I think more people should know about this. I incidently
saw an article by Andrew Patrick (http://www.andrewpatrick.ca/security-
and-privacy/quest-for-a-good-boot-cd-for-internet-banking) today in
which he praises webconverger for exactly this purpose. However, when
I was doing my search, that article didn't come up at all. As with
other uses like kiosks at schools, I think a good tutorial on
specifics for the application (what to do and what not to do) will
make the project more appealing. That is just a thought.

As for me, here is what I've got: I have wireless working. The problem
was that the firmware was missing. Once that was included in the
image, I've got connection.

Now I've got a different issue: it seems like plymouth is failing at
some point during the boot up. As I understand it, plymouth provides
the whole yellow progress bar on the screen after the boot screen and
hides all the boot messages (and can be turned on and off with the
splash parameter). Now the problem with me is that I see the progress
bar at the beginning but it breaks down and then there is text output.
It moves quickly so I can't quite make out the problem but I know for
sure that the system reports that plymouth deamon has failed. I've
tried in vain to locate this in the logs in /var/log/ but it is
nowhere to be found. It is my understanding that one of the advantages
of plymouth is that it logs all the boot messages (an improvement over
logging that the system does itself). I'm not very concerned with
looks, but my only concern is that my ssid and WPA key is splashed on
the screen in plain-text while the connection is being established. I
wish there was a way to hide that information. So if I could get
plymouth to work, that would be great. I guess my first question is
how do I find out what goes wrong? And has anyone else experienced
this?

I'm also concerned as to how the wireless information is actually
stored in plain-text in boot parameters. I've got an image that
disables changing/viewing the boot params at the beginning but I'm
still concerned about this. Any ideas if this is important?

Thanks again everyone for your help,
Al

On Sep 26, 12:51 am, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
> Glad to hear remastering the ISO worked for you. If you could be so
> kind as to add this information to the wiki, please try login and tell
> me your openid in order to give you editing rights.
>

> On 26 September 2011 03:23, Al Joleson <aboutthebi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > figuring out the problems with my build from scratch. Any thoughts?
>
> Did the linux-image-2.6-486 exist in the chroot? Otherwise it could be
> some emulation issue. I used to build webc in an emulated environment
> in a VPS, but then after some issue which I can't even remember I
> invested instead in a dedicated machine.
>
> http://webconverger.org/hetty/
>

> I've finished my jaunthttp://geekout.org.uk/and I hope to do a new

[Kai Hendry]

On 27 September 2011 06:02, Al Joleson <aboutt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> to the wiki could be a page (or series of pages) that users can create
> to talk about the different applications of webconverger. I think this

I think this is a good idea. I've had many thoughts during my break
and one thing is to (re-)purpose Webconverger as a targeted polished
product. I've treated it too much like a hobby (like most opensource
projects) and if we want to seriously take opensource forward we must
look at its problems in terms of a consumer product. Have a wiki for
each specific use case seems like a good way forward.

I can create the page, but for you to edit it, I need to see you have
signed in on the wiki Al. :-)

> As for me, here is what I've got: I have wireless working. The problem
> was that the firmware was missing. Once that was included in the
> image, I've got connection.

Which Debian package was the firmware in? I'll include it in the next release.

> nowhere to be found. It is my understanding that one of the advantages
> of plymouth is that it logs all the boot messages (an improvement over
> logging that the system does itself). I'm not very concerned with
> looks, but my only concern is that my ssid and WPA key is splashed on
> the screen in plain-text while the connection is being established. I
> wish there was a way to hide that information. So if I could get
> plymouth to work, that would be great. I guess my first question is
> how do I find out what goes wrong? And has anyone else experienced
> this?

Tbh Plymouth is a blackbox to me. Slightly better than "splashy" which
was used before. Turns out doing a sane consumer facing bootup in
Linux is non-trivial. :(

> I'm also concerned as to how the wireless information is actually
> stored in plain-text in boot parameters. I've got an image that
> disables changing/viewing the boot params at the beginning but I'm
> still concerned about this. Any ideas if this is important?

I don't think so. Most systems I've seen store wireless passwords in
plain text. Of course in an Internet cafe perhaps where you have a
dedicated WLAN AP for the terminals perhaps and you don't want someone
using it, it could be a problem. However there is other ways to
mitigate that, like using MAC address whitelisting or something. In
any case, my assessment is a low priority bug.

Thanks for your contribution Al. Kind regards,

[Al Joleson]

Hi Kai,

I had an issue earlier regarding the clock settings and timezones. I replied to your message, but for some strange reason it hasn't appeared on the group list yet. But that doesn't really matter because I was really dumb and somehow didn't notice the timezone boot parameter. Appending that parameter worked like a charm.

I also mentioned the wireless firmware I had to install. Apparently the package is firmware-b43-installer. However, I couldn't install the package because it apparently didn't exist in the repositories I was looking at. So instead I just manually downloaded the firmware from http://www.omattos.com/sites/default/files/b43-all-fw.tar_.gz and installed it in /lib/firmware . Hope that helps.

Now to my new problem: I've noticed that while my USB boots perfectly on two old laptops I have kicking around, it seems to cause problems for a number of my other systems (two old desktops and one new laptop). What happens is that the system basically freezes during POST. I tried booting with a CD-ROM made from the same image and everything worked well (although somewhat slow).

Now I did some searching and it appears that some systems don't like the iso-hybrid format. It doesn't seem to be limited to a specific model or age. I had the problem on a year-old HP ProBook laptop as well as an old DELL Dimension 8300 desktop. This issue was discussed by some people here: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/wARPOj0tWkMKk3kL1uir . Now their solution is to create a usb-hdd image and write that to the USB. Does anyone have any idea how to do that? Has anyone tried it? What are the implications of doing this? I want the system to remain read-only just like a CD so I'm hoping it won't affect that. I'll try and do more research and perhaps some tests. But if anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Regards,
Al

[Al Joleson]

Hi Kai,

The wireless firmware is apparently in firmware-b43-installer package.
I couldn't install that myself while I was installing the other
packages. It seems it is not available in the repositories that I was
using. So I instead jut downloaded the firmware from

http://www.omattos.com/sites/default/files/b43-all-fw.tar_.gz and
installed it in /lib/firmware .

I have another newbie question: I'm trying to set the clock on the
image so it shows the right local time. However, all my efforts have
been fruitless. If I login in debug mode and run date I get: Tue Sep
27 22:55:16 UTC 2011 . So I reset localtime like this:

sudo cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Pacific /etc/localtime then the
time is displayed correctly (PDT).

So I did the same thing before remastering the image (while in
chroot). My /etc/timezone reads America/Vancouver.

However when I boot using the new image, the localtime is once again
reset to UTC0.

I've tried running: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and entering the same
settings to no avail.

I'm sure that on boot time the localtime is rewritten, I just can't
figure out how to change it.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Al

On Sep 26, 11:39 pm, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:

[Jonathan Brown]

As far as a non-isohybrid image, I would think just remaster the ISO, but don't run isohybrid on it after you genisoimage.

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[Al Joleson]

Hi Jonathan,

Well that is what I was thinking, but wouldn't that just make a CD image? I thought the whole point of isohybrid was to make it work on USB flash drives. I think if the hybrid image doesn't work your only option is a USB-HDD image file (.img) which uses syslinux instead of isolinux. At least that is my impression based on Debian Live page (http://www.debian.org/CD/live/).

What I was thinking was to take a standard USB-HDD image from Debian Live CD, mount it, change the squashed files system files, remove all the windows autorun and debian installer crap and repack the image and use that. I'm not sure if that works yet. I'm going to give it a try later tonight. However if anyone knows of any other methods or at least knows that what I'm proposing doesn't work, then I'll appreciate your input.

I'm thinking I should have started a new thread for this issue so that it is easier for others to find it (that is if we get a good solution at some point). I am actually surprised that no other person has experienced this problem!

Regards,
Al

[Kai Hendry]

On 28 September 2011 00:08, Al Joleson <aboutt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The wireless firmware is apparently in firmware-b43-installer package.

Hi Al,

I think I've managed to incorporate that firmware into
http://build.webconverger.org/webconverger.2011-10-19.packages
http://build.webconverger.org/webconverger.2011-10-19.iso

Could you please give it a whirl to ensure it works for your hardware?

Many thanks,