Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Have "dokeymap" ran by default on LiveCDs?
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:10:35
Message-Id: 1073434262.26026.308.camel@music.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Have "dokeymap" ran by default on LiveCDs? by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:24, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > Is it possible to have the "dokeymap" option activated by default when you
5 > boot the Gentoo LiveCD? Lots and lots of international Gentoo users (myself
6 > included) need it to be able to select the correct keymap, and forgetting it
7 > requires an immediate reboot as "loadkeys" doesn't function on the x86
8 > LiveCDs.
9
10 The current plan is to not use "dokeymap" anymore (as it doesn't offer a
11 large selection) but write a new LiveCD-specific boot-time script that
12 will prompt for a keymap and use the files in /usr/share/keymaps/ that
13 will run before a login prompt shows up
14 on tty1.
15
16 Regards,
17
18 Daniel
19
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