Live GIS Disc FAQ - Revision history

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* Hardware Drivers */

2014-08-24T02:46:47Z

Hardware Drivers

2014-08-24T01:49:09Z

Hardware Drivers

2014-08-24T01:36:08Z

Hardware Drivers

2014-08-24T01:35:10Z

Hardware Drivers

2014-08-24T01:34:15Z

wifi

2014-08-24T00:44:42Z

usb label

2014-08-23T09:12:21Z

Getting help

2014-08-23T09:12:11Z

Getting help

2014-03-04T04:41:40Z

Administration: sshd bug work-around

2013-02-14T19:06:05Z

Building the disc: how to install a la carte

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	Select the driver if you wish, and hit "Apply Changes". If you do not have a working network connection this will likely fail without telling you why.		Select the driver if you wish, and hit "Apply Changes". If you do not have a working network connection this will likely fail without telling you why.
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		+	* After the drivers are installed you can look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for the deb packages, copy them over to another USB drive, then upon a fresh boot copy them back there and use 'apt-get' to install them. If you mount the other USB drive and the OSGeoLive USB drive on another computer, you can even copy these files into a directory in the Live's USB. These will then be available in the (for example) /cdrom/extra_debs directory. You could even stash a little script in there to install it all automatically.

	== Customizing ==		== Customizing ==

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 * '''''Q''''': How do I get my Wifi working?
-* '''''A''''': Due to legal and licensing issues a number of proprietary firmwares can not be included on the disc, you must download them yourself. We don't have the right to redistrubute them.
+* '''''A''''': Due to licensing issues a number of proprietary firmwares can not be included on the disc, you must download them yourself. We don't have the right to redistrubute them.
 :* You will probably need a wired network connection to download the drivers.

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 It will search for available drivers ... this will take a little while.
-Select the driver if you wish, and hit "apply". If you do not have a working network connection this will likely fail without telling you why.
+Select the driver if you wish, and hit "Apply Changes". If you do not have a working network connection this will likely fail without telling you why.
 == Customizing ==

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 * '''''A''''': Due to legal and licensing issues a number of proprietary firmwares can not be included on the disc, you must download them yourself. We don't have the right to redistrubute them.
-You will probably need a wired network connection to do download the drivers.
+:* You will probably need a wired network connection to download the drivers.
   Start button &rarr; Preferences &rarr; Aditional Drivers
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 Select the driver if you wish, and hit "apply". If you do not have a working network connection this will likely fail without telling you why.
 == Customizing ==

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 * '''''Q''''': What's the live user's name and password?
 * '''''A''''': user/user. See the passwords.txt file on the desktop for application specific database user/passwords.
 == Customizing ==

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 * '''''A''''': Use the search tool in the [http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.livedemo mailing list archives], or put it here and wait for someone else to fill in the '''''A:'''''.
-See als [[Live GIS Disc/Errata/8.0]]
+See also [[Live GIS Disc/Errata/8.0]]
 == Usage ==

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 * '''''A''''': You must first install the openssh-server package:
   sudo apt-get install openssh-server
 <!-- now disabled by default:
 * '''''A''''': You must first generate unique RSA/DSA keys for your machine. For security reasons this has not been done automatically.
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         sudo ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
         sudo ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
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 : '''Important''': If enabling remote login access you really should change the user account's default password with the <tt>passwd</tt> command.

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 * '''''Q''''': How do I roll my own version of the disc?
 * '''''A''''': See the [[Live GIS Build]] wiki page
 [[Category: Live-demo]]