I'm guessing here becasue I only have SPARC solaris boxes to hand where the keyboard keyword is not used, but I would guess that the reason that it is not working is bacuse that value is used only when configuring the Xsun Xserver but Xorg is being used in you installation.
My suspicion stems mainly from this section of the sysidcfg manpage as kdmconfig is not used to configure the X.org Xserver.
Although there is nothing in the documentation to suggest that this is the case.
Quote:
keyboard Keyword
The sysidkdb tool configures your USB language and its corresponding keyboard layout.
The following procedure occurs:
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If the keyboard is self-identifying, the keyboard language and layout automatically configures during installation.
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If the keyboard is not self-identifying, the sysidkdb tool provides you with a list of supported keyboard layouts during installation, so that you can select a layout for keyboard configuration.
Note -
PS/2 keyboards are not self-identifying. You will be asked to select the keyboard layout during the installation.
You can configure the keyboard language and its corresponding keyboard layout information by using the keyboard keyword. Each language has its own keyboard layout. Use the following syntax to select a language and its corresponding layout.
keyboard=keyboard_layout
For example, this entry sets the keyboard language and its corresponding keyboard layout for the German language:
keyboard=German
The value provided for keyboard_layout must be a valid value. Otherwise, an interactive response is required during installation. The valid keyboard_layout strings are defined in the /usr/share/lib/keytables/type_6/kbd_layouts file.
I just built a jumpstart server on a Solaris 9 sun box and have had no problems jumpstarting other sol9 boxes using the custom rules. I've also copied a Solaris 10 image onto that same solaris 9 server and have had problems loading Solaris 10. These boxes will go directly to the manual OS install... (5 Replies)
Hi all ,
I am trying to jumpstart ( webstart) solaris 9 on E2900 ( client) using the DVD of a V440 server ( jumstart server). I did the setup for the V440 as follows :
cleaning up preexisting install client "XXXXXXX"
removing XXXXXXXfrom bootparams
removing /etc/bootparams, since it is... (14 Replies)
I'm a little stumped here. If anyone has seen this, please point me in the right direction
Little background first:
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Hello everyone,
I tried to install solaris 10 using the command # boot net - install.
I take the image correctly but when you start installing the Operating system installation takes a long (4 hours I have left and not advancing but not send me any errors), it can be seen from the following:
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
can someone help with the following?
I got 1x146GB disk which is span by just one zfs rpool.
When issue for example:
as you can see in above output the flar is very small, just around 10KB
rpool with all data sets has several GB so this can't be good image. This is on the Solaris 10... (3 Replies)
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Hi!
I want to migrate Sun Fire v240 server (sun4u) with Solaris 10 update 6 to LDOM virtual host (sun4v). I was mount NFS directory from another server in /mnt and did this steps on v240
1) I add to the /var/sadm/system/admin/.platform
PLATFORM_GROUP=sun4v
# cat... (1 Reply)
I want to migrate a solaris 10 os to solaris 11.4 zone.
I did this
a)Collect some data like id sysid,disks,ip,etc..on solaris10
OK
b)Create this file.cfg with this command on solaris 10
zonep2vchk -c > /migration/sol10.cfg
OK
c)Create the archive flash on Solaris10 (1 Reply)
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setupcon
SETUPCON(1) Console-setup User's Manual SETUPCON(1)NAME
setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on the console
SYNOPSIS
setupcon [OPTION]... [VARIANT]
DESCRIPTION
setupcon is a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the console. Most of the time you invoke setupcon without
arguments. The keyboard configuration is specified in ~/.keyboard or /etc/default/keyboard. The font configuration is specified in
~/.console-setup or /etc/default/console-setup. Consult keyboard(5) and console-setup(5) for instructions how to configure these two
files.
If you have to switch often between different encodings, keyboards or languages, you can prepare several alternative configuration files
for setupcon. Suppose that most of the time you will use Greek language with Greek keyboard layout, but sometimes you need to type in Ger-
man with German keyboard layout. In this situation you should customize the main configuration files (keyboard and console-setup) for
Greek. Create also alternative configuration files for German named keyboard.german and console-setup.german. Then in order to configure
the console for Greek you will simply run the command with no arguments: setupcon and in order to configure the console for German you will
use setupcon german.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Be more verbose. Use this option if something goes wrong or while experimenting with the configuration files.
-k, --keyboard-only
Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font.
-f, --font-only
Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard.
--force
Do not check whether we are on the console. Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run setupcon with
this option and the screen is controlled by a X server.
--save This option can be useful if you want to use setupcon early in the boot process while /usr is not yet mounted and the required data
are not available. This option will make setupcon copy the required files in /etc/console-setup/ in order to make them available
before /usr is mounted. If you use setupcon early in the boot process, then you should run it with this option after every change
of the console configuration.
--save-only
The same as --save, but does not setup the keyboard and the font. This option can be useful if you want to save the required files
while the screen is controlled by a X server.
-h, --help
Display usage information.
VARIANT
Specifies which configuration file to use. By default the configuration files of setupcon are named console-setup and keyboard but
if you use e.g. chukchi as VARIANT then the configuration files will be console-setup.chukchi and keyboard.chukchi. In this way
you can have easy access to several different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi language and another for the default
configuration.
FILES
~/.console-setup
~/.keyboard
/etc/default/console-setup
/etc/default/keyboard
/etc/default/console-setup.VARIANT
/etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT
/etc/console-setup/
SEE ALSO keyboard(5), console-setup(5)console-setup 2011-03-17 SETUPCON(1)