Newbie with non us keyboard

[borneoca]

Im new to Tiny Core and fresh with linux. Ive installed Tiny core on memory stick for use on a thin client (without network). My keyboard is not US. Ive read the FAQ (a copy follows under) and installed kmap, but i wonder about two things:
1. How do I add the extension kmaps.tcz to my persistent tce directory?
2. All is done from the prompt, right?

From the faq:

The extension "kmaps.tcz" was created just for this. It includes all keymaps from the kbd package. Keymaps have to be changed in the console, not in X.
So, for a quick test, load the extension, exit to prompt, and type:

sudo loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/fi-latin9.kmap

To make this permanent, add the extension kmaps.tcz to your persistent tce directory, and then either use the bootcode kmap=qwerty/fi-latin9, or add the command to /opt/bootlocal.sh (missing the sudo, since bootlocal is executed as root):

loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/fi-latin9.kmap

[Rich]

Hi borneoca

1. How do I add the extension kmaps.tcz to my persistent tce directory?

Boot your memory stick from a machine that has network access. Use the  Apps  utility to install  kmaps.tcz  Onboot. Then move
your memory stick back to your thin client. Kmaps will load automatically when you boot.

2. All is done from the prompt, right?

Yes. To get from the GUI to the console, press  CTRL-ALT-Backspace

[gerald_clark]

If you don't have X running on the network access machine you can from the command line run "tce-load -iw kmaps".
That will download it and install it in onboot.

[PeterNorth]

I have Firefox up (into which I am typing) but I get (in aterm)...

tc@box:/$ tce-load -iw kmaps
Downloading: kmaps.tcz
Connecting to repo.tinycorelinux.net (89.22.99.37:80)
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
md5sum: kmaps.tcz.md5.txt: No such file or directory
Error on kmaps.tcz

This must be a fairly uncommon problem since I see it reported nowhere else ...
yet I can download any other App I request from either command line or Apps except nano.
I am running pure x86_64 bit.
Any ideas?

[Juanito]

kmaps was not present in the corepure64 repo, but has now been added - thanks for reporting this.

Nano is also not present - if you'd like to submit a 64-bit nano extension, please feel free 

[PeterNorth]

kmaps worked fine, thanks.
I know this is off topic ... but elsewhere the offer was made "if a package is built for 32-bit ... append a post to ask for an equivalent 64 bit extension"
1) is there a "proper" thread dedicated for such requests ?
2) if not, could I request the geany group for 64 bits ?

geany-dev.tcz
geany-doc.tcz
geany-locale.tcz
geany-plugins-dev.tcz
geany-plugins-doc.tcz
geany-plugins-locale.tcz
geany-plugins.tcz
geany.tcz

[Juanito]

geany posted

[Ruikku]

Not sure if this is the right way to ask this, but I think I have done all of the above.

1. added  kmaps.tcz
2. sudo loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/fi-latin9.kmap [also checked that fi/latin9.kmap exists in that directory]
3. added the line loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/fi-latin9.kmap to /opt/bootlocal.sh

I have no idea how to add "kmap=qwerty/fi-latin" bootcode... I googled this to no avail. As you can probably see from this, I am a absolute linux noob...

[curaga]

You don't need the bootcode if you edited bootlocal.sh, it's just a shorter way to do the same thing.

[Misalf]

Hi Ruikku
After you have edited your configuration, did you run  backup  or  filetool.sh -b  before roboot?