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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:22:31 +0200
From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall's console keymap menu
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Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Jordan, what do you think about making the keymap selection the first
> > step of the "Standard" installation?
> 
> Most people don't need to set it, and the Standard install is all
> about trying to take the "most general" path.  If I'm wildly wrong
> about this anywhere but Spain, I'm certainly willing to revisit the
> decision. :)
> 

Hmmmm... There are many countries/languages which use keyboards with
different layouts. This affects the location of some important signs
such as "/". It's very annoying for a new FreeBSD user typing "/"
while getting "&" in the disklabel screen, for example.

Cheers,
-- JMA
****** Jose M. Alcaide  //  jose@we.lc.ehu.es  //  jmas@FreeBSD.org ******
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