Porteus problems
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 00:38
I just want to say first, great distribution so far.
My use case:
I spend time between United States and Japan, so some of my friends are Japanese and some are American. I'm trying to create a Porteus distribution to help with one of my Japanese friends whose windows laptop doesn't work right anymore, presumably due to malware. This person is somewhat afraid of Linux because she thinks it is only for advanced users. I do not think so, and I'm trying to create a distribution of Linux that has the basics: Word processing(Libre office) and Skype. I also selected a Japanese keyboard. I will be back in Japan shortly, and I would like to be able to place my Porteus CD in the drive and have something functional.
But I'm running into problems.
Skype does not load the WebCam drivers.
The Japanese keyboard does not appear by default, even though I selected it on the cookbook using the website.
And one wish list item: VNC server started automatically
So I'm writing to you as somewhat of a half-newbie. I know my way around Linux but not enough to fix driver problems, and even after selecting the Japanese keyboard manually, I still could not get it to type any kana.
I would appreciate someone's assistance.
My use case:
I spend time between United States and Japan, so some of my friends are Japanese and some are American. I'm trying to create a Porteus distribution to help with one of my Japanese friends whose windows laptop doesn't work right anymore, presumably due to malware. This person is somewhat afraid of Linux because she thinks it is only for advanced users. I do not think so, and I'm trying to create a distribution of Linux that has the basics: Word processing(Libre office) and Skype. I also selected a Japanese keyboard. I will be back in Japan shortly, and I would like to be able to place my Porteus CD in the drive and have something functional.
But I'm running into problems.
Skype does not load the WebCam drivers.
The Japanese keyboard does not appear by default, even though I selected it on the cookbook using the website.
And one wish list item: VNC server started automatically
So I'm writing to you as somewhat of a half-newbie. I know my way around Linux but not enough to fix driver problems, and even after selecting the Japanese keyboard manually, I still could not get it to type any kana.
I would appreciate someone's assistance.