There is no /usr/share/keymaps -> there are no foreign(to you US folks) keymaps -> it's damn hard to type using a non-US keyboard. I have been using "mkdir /asdf; cd /asdf; scp tazle@vortex:keymaps.tgz ./; cp -ar /usr/share/* ./; tar -xzf keymaps.tgz; mount -o bind /asdf /usr/share" as a workaround but it's not really a solution. This problems existed already on the 1.4-rc2 livecd(at least on some version) and I was really surprised that it had not been fixed already. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the 3-stage 1.4-rc3 livecd 2. Tell the system to load a (for example) Finnish keymap (loadkeys fi gives the error, just as does the boot-time menu) Actual Results: The keymap file is not found Expected Results: It should have been in /usr/share/keymaps (or somewhere else, but that's where they usually are), should have been loaded and I should have been able to type all the
There is no /usr/share/keymaps -> there are no foreign(to you US folks) keymaps -> it's damn hard to type using a non-US keyboard. I have been using "mkdir /asdf; cd /asdf; scp tazle@vortex:keymaps.tgz ./; cp -ar /usr/share/* ./; tar -xzf keymaps.tgz; mount -o bind /asdf /usr/share" as a workaround but it's not really a solution. This problems existed already on the 1.4-rc2 livecd(at least on some version) and I was really surprised that it had not been fixed already. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the 3-stage 1.4-rc3 livecd 2. Tell the system to load a (for example) Finnish keymap (loadkeys fi gives the error, just as does the boot-time menu) Actual Results: The keymap file is not found Expected Results: It should have been in /usr/share/keymaps (or somewhere else, but that's where they usually are), should have been loaded and I should have been able to type all the äs and ös I wanted to. The keymaps work, just put them where they should be!
why arent you choosing keymap during boot? fi is now fixed
