What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:56:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:43:35PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> > 
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> > 
> > Thanks for all the tips on this subject. One more question:
> > 
> > How would I enable a local keyboard layout in single user mode?
> > I have had to find '/' by trial and error on my UK keyboard.
> > 
> 
> You can use kbdcontrol(1) to load a new keyboard mapping. (Probably
> requires that /usr is already mounted to work correctly.)
> 
> You can also specify in the kernel config file which keyboard layout should
> be used by default.  See the atkbd(4) or ukbd(4) manpages for details.
> 

You can also specify it in /etc/rc.conf:

keymap="uk.cp850"

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 Frank 

	
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