Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-17 Thread richard lyons
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:44, Bob Proulx wrote: > David W.E. Roberts wrote: > > Bob, > > > > thanks for all the useful info. > > > > I had been led to beleive that if you did a HD install of Knoppix then > > you had a Debian installation which could then be updated to the latest > > version by using

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
David W.E. Roberts wrote: > Bob, > > thanks for all the useful info. > > I had been led to beleive that if you did a HD install of Knoppix then you > had a Debian installation which could then be updated to the latest version > by using 'apt-get update'. (read with me making puzzled faces about

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-16 Thread Bob Proulx
David W.E. Roberts wrote: > I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian > 2.4.24-xfs. Well, actually no. It does not give you a Debian 2.4.24-xfs kernel. It gives you a Knoppix 2.4.24-xfs kernel. Knoppix is a fork of Debian that uses the same packaging system and th

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:41:22PM +0100, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > > From browsing man pages I think it should be 'en_uk' or 'en_UK'; > > 'UK' is the Ukraine in locales; you want 'en_GB'. > > > My i18n configuration file contains: > > > > :/etc/sysconfig# cat i18n > > /

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:41:22PM +0100, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > From browsing man pages I think it should be 'en_uk' or 'en_UK'; 'UK' is the Ukraine in locales; you want 'en_GB'. > My i18n configuration file contains: > > :/etc/sysconfig# cat i18n /etc/sysconfig doesn't sound very Debiani

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread richard lyons
On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:31, David W.E. Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian > 2.4.24-xfs. [...] > Second problem - I am stuck with a US keyboard layout and a UK keyboard. > > I am trying to change the default 'locale' settings in /etc