Peter Ross <petrosssit@gmail.com> writes:
These days it takes a half-day course just to figure out how to stop DHCP and give a static IP address on a Linux live CD.
On Debian 8 Live, live-boot(7) indicates you do it the same way you did when ipconfig was built into the kernel in like 1997: ip=[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER][,[DEVICE]:[CLIENT_IP]:[NETMASK]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NAMESERVER]] This is because it uses klibc-utils' ipconfig(8), which is admittedly a TERRIBLE THING. Also: live-boot/live-config manpages tend to proactively descibe features that haven't actually been written yet; don't trust them :-)
Or how to disable a mousepad on a laptop: some weird XML file under /etc/hal2000/conf.d/NotANameIremember.conf.
Untested: cat >/etc/xorg.conf.d/no-touchpad-kthx.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "Touchpad" MatchIsTouchpad "yes" Driver "synaptics" Option "TouchpadOff" "1" EndSection Based on synaptics(4) & https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad I do it with "syndaemon -Rdtk" in ~/.xsession, which disables it only while typing.