Hello Brian, *** Re: the lack of documentation
Unfortunately, November 2015 saw a drama surrounding Debian Live. You can get a summary at https://lwn.net/Articles/665839/ >From a user's point of view, the upside is that a new tool is being developed, and debian-live will still be available in the mean time. The downside is that the original site is gone and the documentation is a bit difficult to find. I personally read it at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/live-manual/stable/manual/html/live-manual.en.html *** Re: keyboard layouts I haven't played much with that, but I think it might be possible with a preseed config? See an example here on lines 3-4 (where I had to comment it out because not all keyboards at my place are the same): https://github.com/pablobm/w2c3-livecd/blob/master/config/includes.binary/install/preseed.cfg *** /lib/live/mount/medium No idea. What do you want to do? *** Re: CDs being from the past My undestanding is that the new tool will have that aspiration, but I'm not actually following it, so take my word with a pinch of salt. On 29 July 2016 at 13:37, Brian Wengel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear debian-live team > > I can't find any documentation about Debian Live? > E.g. what's the username and password?.....I did find it on Google after > some time...but that should not be source of the most basic and vital > information. > > Another simple questions is how to change keyboard layout. I expect at > least half of the users of Debian Live uses a different layout.....it would > be nice if it was more easy to change for all of us. > I did found a way to change it on Google (but nothing I will be able to > remember)....so now I need to keep a note together with my Live USB key! > I never found a way to make it persistent.though. > Can I edit a file in /lib/live/mount/medium? > As the vast majority do use a writeable medium (USB flash) and not a > read-only CD-ROM...it would be nice if it was more easy to change > persistently. > > Another thing: > I guess no one use CD-ROMs these days.....I haven't had a drive in my > laptops for MANY years! > Maybe it's time to stop aiming Debian Live to a CD-ROM media, and stop > using it in titles, guide etc. At least not as the > primary media/option....we moved to USB flash drives many years ago ;-) > When I read the limited pages and documentation about Live, it's almost as > USB flash keys are a brand new technology that most people haven't started > using yet. > > Thanks.in advance. > > Brian > -- Pablo Brasero Moreno [email protected]
