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Terminale root

Ok, la prima cosa da fare è accedere ad un terminale con privilegi di root.

La cosa è più semplice del previsto: è sufficiente collegare una tastiera USB al MID con l'apposito connettore fornito in dotazione e premere contemporaneamenti i tasti CTRL + ALT + F1 per passare al tty1.

Per tornare al terminale grafico ( sta sul secondo terminale 2 ) è sufficiente premere: CTRL + ALT + F2.

Una volta collegati al terminale viene richiesto l'utente con cui ci si vuole connettere. Qui inseriremo as 'root '. It is no password.


NOTE: The keyboard layout in the terminal tty1 is then English with an Italian keyboard, all keys with special characters (ie / # @ (I purchased the Benq on eBay in January at a price of € 230 while the web site of the TIM unit was on sale at a price of 299 €. I do not know what the current market value.)

small but powerful device The Benq S6 uses an Intel Atom 800MHz processor, has 512MB of RAM and 2GB of SSD. Not much but enough for the operating system. E 'then we can use the MicroSD card expansion to increase the space available (I bought one of these cards from 4GB to 12 €).

In Italy comes with Linux preinstalled. The distribution used
RedFlag Midinux
, does not allow any customization.

My first concern was therefore to try to replace the original operating system with a Linux distribution more 'open'.

The options considered were essentially two:


use the Ubuntu MID distro



Moblin
use the platform (in particular, the use Moblin Image Creator) to assemble a distribution suitable for BenqS6.

• Hmmm, both options require an investment of time that today I can not afford. Ok, so for now I keep Midinux, but you need to make some changes ...