on 14/7/2000 12:45 pm, LATBauerdick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Excuse me if this is a FAQ: > > I'm trying to get yaboot running on my iMac with a German keyboard, but I > encounter a fatal obstacle: > > I understand that the setup involves to define the boot device in OF, which > unfortunately means that one has to type in a line containing some > backslashes. > > It turns out that a German keyboard does not send the necessary key codes to > generate a backslash! I had notices this before with an older distribution > of linuxppc - in debian potato and LinuxPPC2000 this now works fine w/o > xmodmap. > > However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not > find a way to send the necessary back-slashes! > > (BTW, the "nvsetenv" command from the LinuxPPC distribution seems to be > broken?) > > Who can help me with this one? > > Cheers, LatB > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is not an FAQ question as far as Iam aware. I have the Same problem with my UK Rev B iMac . I cannot get the '\' in OF ( 3.0f2 OF ). The low level keyboard mapping also seems different such that the menu_ofboot.b ( renamed to ofboot.b due to known issues ) script does not work for me. It been driving me crazy! Has anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this ??
Thanks Derek
