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# BootFreevo

## Boot directly into freevo

After Freevo has been installed correctly and verified to work when run from the command prompt, the system can be configured for standalone operation where Freevo will startup automatically without the need for entering a username and password. You should consider, that standalone operation implies that the system will be somewhat 'insecure'.

1. Put the following in /etc/inittab

     id:3:initdefault:

and

    1:3:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin USER tty1

After the next boot (in runlevel 3) your USER will be automatically logged in on the first console tty1.

2. Put the following in your USER's .bash_profile:

     case "`tty`" in
        /dev/tty1) clear && freevo &>/dev/null;
     esac

This will start freevo automatically, when your USER logs in on tty1.

If you start Freevo with the option `-fs`, Freevo will start as windowmanager, and X is started automatically. Otherwise it will try to use the framebuffer device. Thus you should make sure that the appropriate output device (X or framebuffer) is working correctly before you try this.

It may be that you don't have the program mingetty, but getty. Unfortunately the `--autologin` option seems not to be supported by getty, but you can install mingetty instead. The only reason to prefer getty over mingetty is, if you want to you use console over a modem connection or something similar. It also might be - depending on your distribution - that the file inittab is called different in your system. These things are tested with a debian system.

last edited 2005-01-05 10:35:44 by JohnMolohan
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