Package: installation-guide Version: 20090901 Severity: wishlist Hello,
It has been reported that it would be useful to add a link from the accessibility to the boot screen section, as the attached patch does, since the latter describes precisely how keypresses work there. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig)
Index: en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml =================================================================== --- en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (révision 63063) +++ en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (copie de travail) @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ <phrase arch="x86">On machines that support it, the boot menu emits a beep when it is ready to receive keystrokes.</phrase> Some boot parameters can <phrase arch="x86">then</phrase> be appended to -enable accessibility features. Note that on most architectures the boot +enable accessibility features. <phrase arch="x86"> See +<xref linkend="boot-screen"/> for details on how to type them.</phrase> +Note that on most architectures the boot loader interprets your keyboard as a QWERTY keyboard. </para>
