DebianEeePC/Live/UsersGuide

After downloading the image from ?DebianEeePC/Live#USB.2BAC8-HDDimages copy it onto an unmounted USB device by

dd if=eeepc-live-1.0~b1.img of=/dev/sdc
sync

Note that you copy it onto the whole device, not a partition on it.

Boot

At boot time you have to do several things to set everything up.

Insert the device with the live image on it and press the power button.

Camera

First hit F2 when switching on to get into the BIOS.

Use Right arrow to "Advanced", Down arrow to "Onboard Device Configuration", Enter, Down arrow to "Onboard Camera". This appears as "disabled by default" so use the - (minus sign, or dash) to select "enabled", F10 and then OK to save and exit.

Boot Device

Now hit Esc to choose boot device. (The screen says to hit TAB, but if that doesn't work use Esc.)

Language & Keyboard

In this area - choose Help, and then F8 to install with special parameters. For different languages, keyboards, etc you will find settings at http://webconverger.org/i18n/#index2h1

For example, if your eeepc has a spanish keyboard but you work in English you would type

live locale=en keyb=es

and hit return to continue the boot process.

In Use

If the system goes to sleep the password to wake it up again is "live". The username is already there, "user".

The camera can be called from the commandline by typing

mplayer tv://

or by opening SMPlayer, selecting > Open > URL and typing  tv:// 

ToDo

Everything will depend on how small the live image can be kept and sourcing suitable debian packages, but other possibilities are:-