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:-
- Configuration notes for Iceweasel.
- Optional sleep on lid-closure - to allow continued downloading/music playing or VoIP use with the lid down.
- IRC/Messenger client(s)
- VoIP solution
- Flash Player
- Spreadsheet (sc or gnumeric)
- .pdf reader