Bug 20300 – Support for non-QWERTY US keyboards has been removed from install cd. Very bad for dvorak users that use a totally different layout.

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Federico Zenith 2003-05-01 20:24:48 UTC]

When I installed the LiveCD 1.4_rc4 I noticed that it is no longer possible to
select your keyboard layout right after boot. This is relatively unimportant for
localised versions of QWERTY (fr, de, it, no...) that have few different keys if
any. Dvorak is instead totally different (has in common only the placement of A
ond M), and making all the install process with trial-and-error keyboard input
is quite frustrating. I managed since I use QWERTY at work, but I had a hard
time anyway: I can imagine that 100% dvorak users may REALLY be irritated.
I cannot exclude that this problem may happen also for other layouts, but have
no material on that.

Note: dvorak users see qwerty as linux users see windows. Please understand.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set in the LiveCD...
2....start the computer...
3....and see that you get to the prompt with a us QWERTY keyboard layout.

Actual Results:  
QWERTY loaded, fingers confused.

Expected Results:  
It should have asked me which layout I wanted to use.

I tried "loadkeys dvorak" during the installation but it didn't work...
It should be very easy to fix, as this feature was already implemented until rc3.

[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-05-09 18:25:20 UTC]

try hitting F2 for boot options please. 
"gentoo dokeymaps" 

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:44 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.