1. General and Meta Questions
    1. What is JAILBAIT?
    2. JAILBAIT is a fully-functional Linux distribution (based on LEM) that fits into 16mb.

    3. Why 16mb?
    4. Many modern net-appliance-type products, such as the Netpliance i-opener, have an internal SanDisk IDE device that is 16 MB in size.

    5. What is an i-opener?
    6. What rock have you been under? Get up to speed.

    7. What does JAILBAIT stand for?
    8. JAILBAIT's Another Interesting Linux But Also Intimidating Too. Don't you just love recursive acronyms?

    9. What does the JAILBAIT distribution contain?
    10. JAILBAIT includes everything you need to use your i-opener in a networked environment. An X environment, mp3 player, text browser, ssh, ircII, Netscape, esd, vncviewer, and lots more are included.

    11. What does the JAILBAIT kernel support?
    12. USB Pegasus-based ethernet adapters
      USB Kawasaki-based ethernet adapters
      Parallel port ZIP devices
      PPP support
      IDE support
      Modules for sound
      NFS client support
      RAMfs Support
      devFS
      cramFS support
      serial support
      parallel printer w/o foreign support
      Native language support for English charactersets
      MTRR support
      PNP support

    13. I have the Hooey USB adapter. Is that supported?
    14. If you find Hooey here and it says Pegasus or Kawasaki, then yes.

  2. Installation
    1. Overview
    2. Installation is very simple. JAILBAIT is distributed as a disk image, so all you have to do is get it and dump it to the SanDisk.

    3. How do I get it?
    4. You need to get on the 'net, ftp the file.

  3. Configuration
    1. I can't save any files; they are all read-only. What gives?
    2. Most of these steps require you to remount / read-write in order to write to it.

      # mount -o remount,rw /

    3. How do I configure eth0 for my network?
    4. This is straight from the LEM page. You can also just vi these files. Note that the new installation utility will do this for you.

    5. How do I add other users?
    6. You need to edit /etc/passwd and change /home. You will need to un-tar the file

      /etc/var_directory.tar.gz

      and rebuild it in order to change /home
      We are currently working on a more elegant solution.

    7. How do I configure PPP for my ISP?
    8. Look at the PPP howto pages.

  4. Impressing Your Friends (or Stupid i-o Tricks)
    1. Using your JAILBAIT i-o as an x-terminal.
    2. # X -query <XDMHOST>

    3. Listening to sound from a remote x client.
    4. Run esd it in public mode.

      # esd -public

faq by tara_neier: updated Jun 21 2000