I'm using a copy of tomsrtbt version 1.7.118, and since I operate in the UK, I
have the teency nagging problem
that I have to select the UK keyboard "21" at boot during the execution of
rc.custom, to override the default US
keyboard layout.
Looking at the code, I find in rc.custom:
.......
echo P>P
sh<<'X'&
read -p "
1 be 4 dk 7 fr 10 is 13 la 16 pt 19 sf
2 cf 5 es 8 gr 11 it 14 no 17 ru 20 sg
3 de 6 fi 9 hu 12 jp 15 pl 18 se 21 uk
Select keyboard, ENTER for default (15 seconds): " J</dev/tty1>/dev/tty1
[ "$J" ]&&loadkeys $J.map
rm P
X
(sleep 15;kill $!;rm P)2>$NU&
while [ -f P ];do;done
.......
Is it reasonable to just add a line:
KB=21
to settings.s
and change the above snippet to read:
.......
echo P>P
[ "$KB" ] && J=$KB <<<<< additional line
sh<<'X'&
read -p "
1 be 4 dk 7 fr 10 is 13 la 16 pt 19 sf
2 cf 5 es 8 gr 11 it 14 no 17 ru 20 sg
3 de 6 fi 9 hu 12 jp 15 pl 18 se 21 uk
Select keyboard, ENTER for default (15 seconds): " J</dev/tty1>/dev/tty1
[ "$J" ]&&loadkeys $J.map
rm P
X
(sleep 15;kill $!;rm P)2>$NU&
while [ -f P ];do;done
.......
so that a site's preferred keyboard setting can be coded in the setting.s file.
Or even, perhaps better:
.......
echo P>P
sh<<'X'&
read -p "
1 be 4 dk 7 fr 10 is 13 la 16 pt 19 sf
2 cf 5 es 8 gr 11 it 14 no 17 ru 20 sg
3 de 6 fi 9 hu 12 jp 15 pl 18 se 21 uk
Select keyboard, ENTER for default (15 seconds): " KB</dev/tty1>/dev/tty1
[ "$KB" ]&&loadkeys $KB.map
rm P
X
(sleep 15;kill $!;rm P)2>$NU&
while [ -f P ];do;done
.......
It's all to do with laziness really. On earlier versions of tomsrtbt ( which
didn't actually support
UK keyboard ) I just let the floppy boot all the way to login. As of now, I tend
to sit by the machine
as it boots , just so that I can catch it asking for the keyboard setting to
avoid finger confusion later
on. With the above tweak, I'm hoping I can revert to my original practice,
performing some other
useful/menial task on another machine in the foreground whilst waiting for the
floppy to boot in the
background.
Does the coding logic work?
Thanks in anticipation.
Ted Rule,
Flextech Television
