Paul Sture <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
This is what I had done at last install--one year ago. This should really be addressed by the developpers. Since SmartOS is a commercial distribution it is not a good idea to restrict it to the US market. > 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. Nearly alone. The other UNIXes have problems after install when asking for a decryption key. But the installer itself asks for the keymap at first (Linux, OBSD, NBSD, FBSD, ...). It did install OpenIndiana yesterday after SmartOS failed--the text installer is really well done! And of course it *does* asks for the keymap at 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!) The same issue have FreeBSD and NetBSD, unfortunately :( NetBSD does not have much developers but for FreeBSD it's a shame. --Carsten ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
