Subject: i18n: installing debian with non-us keyboard.

From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 20:52 EST

Hello all,

Sorry if this has been already discussed here, but since i18n has come
these days... have any of you tried to install debian in a machine
with a non-us keyboard? It's a pain. When you write paths (such as
mount points) you have to remember all the time where the slash "/" is
in an american keyboard! And the same holds for many keys, depending
on your keyboard.

IMHO the very first thing the install tool should provide is a list
with keyboard maps and let the user choose one using the arrows (this
is what slackware does).

There is enough space in the root disk for this? My
/usr/lib/kbd/keytables has ~ 480 kb, but there are some "duplicate"
keymaps there, like be-latin1 and be2-latin1, three german keymaps, 2
emacs keymaps, etc. Maybe the keymaps could be compressed?

Emilio.

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