On 28 Jun 2016, at 21:34, Carsten Kunze wrote:
Hello,
the installer asks for configuring the root password before the
keyboard language is set. How to setup the correct keymap *before* the
installer asks for the root password?
I've had a look at this myself and haven't found any obvious way of
changing the default of US-English on the USB key itself. Unless anyone
has any bright ideas it looks like a change to the build sources is
required.
What I have done to date is to select a root password first and practice
entering it on another system temporarily set to US-English layout. Not
exactly ideal, but it works for me.
FWIW SmartOS is not alone here. The OS installers I most dread are
those that ask for a keyboard layout and then go straight into a
non-echoed password prompt with no means of confirming that your
keyboard choice actually works on your hardware first.
(Windows 8.1 Bitlocker deserves its own mention here - when you set it
up you are already using your keyboard language, but on the next reboot
the Bitlocker password expects a US keyboard - Gack!)
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