According to my experience based on older toms versions, the easiest would
prolly be to rip off all this :
---------------
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
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, replace it by :
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loadkeys 21.map -or whatever.map
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and also maybe erase other .map files to have a lil' more room to custom
your own toms's with buildit.s and unpack.s scripts.
Tom's scripts are really impressive for unix rookies like me :-).
>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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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