F17-Beta: some flaws

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 10:00 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 09:01 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 08:48 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Adam,
> >>
> >> This it not advisable: after "chroot /mnt/sysimage",
> >> system-config-keyboard is not available :-(
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> > 
> > Then you don't have it installed. What the hell did you install exactly?
> > You seem to have a rather broken installation, to be honest...
> 
> It is correct that I didn't install system-config-keyboard. Therefore
> it's not available after "chroot ...". You are right!
> 
> I did a *minimal* install, which runs flawlessly if booted normally
> (with correct configured keyboard: german-nodeadkeys, set by anaconda!)
> 
> > 
> >>>> Why did you do this from a rescue shell?
> >>
> >> I did this to have the comforts of the right keyboard layout! It is very
> >> cumbersome to work with yz-/ and some more keys on a german keyboard
> >> which is not correctly configured.
> > 
> > He's not asking why you're doing it at all. He's asking why you're doing
> > it from a rescue shell and not just from the installed system.
> 
> For curiosity only (I hope that's allowed!) :-)
> 
> I think if the rescue shell offers such a command, it should run as
> expected and needed.

Well...it does. It sets the keyboard for the rescue shell. =) You
probably want that, if you're using a very 'different' keyboard to do a
rescue.
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