[Sheflug] quick boot with no login

[Ross <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

hi all,

as previously posted, i've got my antique laptop to run on debian to provide our engineers with a terminal acess tool for a building management system...

trouble with engineers is they always want a bit more than you deliver!

they are over the moon with the machine as it hasn't crashed on them all day! (we used to run windows on an old machine that crashed pretty much on a daily basis... could have a hardware fault in all fairness though!)

the only critisism is that it takes a while to boot and shutdown (albeit once a day) and they have to login!

security is not an issue, neither is the full networking capability of the linux system......

i want to make it as simple as possible to run... to this end i would like to boot the machine up in (possibly) single user mode and set an init script up to fire up minicom imediately to communicate on the serial port /dev/ttyS0.

can anyone recomend an easy solution to this?

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Thanks,
        Ross
               ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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