Hello again, > While the installer (FDI) is not fast, the main issue is your whole VM is > really slow. I could even see the initial boot menu drawing each line. I > think most of the “slowness” your experiencing is video related. You really > want to enable some sort of acceleration. Jim has shared his invocation of > QEMU a couple times. I think the command line may be longer than "War and > Piece".
Thanks for the link! Some of the commands seem deprecated or removed, but I’ll try to research on this, and being on macOS, KVM acceleration is not present I believe. But, thanks. > I need to make a doc file on “how to make those v8f files”. I do draw vector fonts, and I believe I can make some nicer bitmap ones as well. Please let me know once you are ready to publish info, I’ll have a look. > I didn’t see any failure messages in the video. > > But, if you mean just in general… There are only two. One for normal mode and > one for advanced mode. > See the section starting at line 113 in the english version. > https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/6fe293d50feeb938de3bd8c8c700a53740f2d652/fdi/language/en/FDSETUP.DEF#L113 > > <https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/6fe293d50feeb938de3bd8c8c700a53740f2d652/fdi/language/en/FDSETUP.DEF#L113> Thanks, I’ve realised that some failure messages (a couple of lines below would not fit properly. Modified as needed. > First, the installer files can not be in UTF format. > > Also, Do not modify and submit updated versions of the files on the install > media. Most files of the installer files on the install media undergo a > little or a lot of modification by the release build environment (RBE). > Consider those files compiled executables. Changes need to be made at the > source level. Understood. > If I understand what you are asking…. > > There are two separate systems in the installer regarding keyboard settings. > The first is the Main selection screen. The installer attempts to pre-select > the one matching the users language. The number of keyboard selections > matches the number of languages the installer itself supports. > > The second system is slower but allows any number of additional keyboard > choices. > > When looking at the keyboard sources, the distinction is a little clearer. > > If the installer was an EXE, it would use only one system for selecting > keyboards. However being batch based, breaking it into two pieces yields > better performance and overall works better. No, what I meant was purely semantics. For instance, for Brazilian Portuguese, it just says Brazil. The same for Denmark, instead of Danish. For French, there is a French, and there is French (alternative). I presume one is the AZERTY layout, but I am not sure which, that sort of thing. I can just go ahead and fix for Turkish, but the others will stand out. > Although there are translations for FDI-x86, no means is provided at present > to automatically change languages. It will be added eventually. But, it is a > low priority for me. In the meantime, it can be done manually. Ah, okay then. Fair enough. Best, Emir
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