Installation media requests

Installation media requests

[Kete Foy]

In my opinion, the installation media needs 2 features: Colemak and 
wireless instructions.

Re: Installation media requests

[Omar Radwan]

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>In my opinion, the installation media needs 2 features: Colemak and
wireless instructions.

Colemak is not very widely used, but I'm not in charge of that, so I don't
know if it'll happen. While wireless right now is in the works. And I would
expect it to be in by 0.9.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Kete Foy <kete@ninthfloor.org> wrote:

> In my opinion, the installation media needs 2 features: Colemak and
> wireless instructions.
>
>

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Re: Installation media requests

[Kete Foy]

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On 01/31/2015 10:39 PM, Omar Radwan wrote:
> Colemak is not very widely used
>
It has been in every distro for years

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Re: Installation media requests

[Alex Kost]

Kete Foy (2015-02-01 15:08 +0300) wrote:

> On 01/31/2015 10:39 PM, Omar Radwan wrote:
>
>     Colemak is not very widely used
>
>
> It has been in every distro for years

And it is in GSD as well.  Do you mean you can't switch your console
layout using "loadkeys colemak"?  If so, then the problem is that the
upstream names this layout "en-latin9", so as a "workaround" you can try
"loadkeys en-latin9".

I don't know what is the policy of the other distros, but for example
"Arch Linux" just renames "en-latin9" into "colemak"
(https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/kbd).

Perhaps it would be better for us to modify a recipe for "kbd" package
to make a symlink "…/share/keymaps/i386/colemak/colemak.map.gz" that
would point to "en-latin9.map.gz".  What do people think?


Or do you mean anything else when you say that Colemak feature is missing?

P.S.  I use dvorak :-)

-- 
Alex

Re: Installation media requests

[Kete Foy]

On 02/01/2015 11:52 AM, Alex Kost wrote
> And it is in GSD as well.  Do you mean you can't switch your console
> layout using "loadkeys colemak"?  If so, then the problem is that the
> upstream names this layout "en-latin9", so as a "workaround" you can try
> "loadkeys en-latin9".
>
> I don't know what is the policy of the other distros, but for example
> "Arch Linux" just renames "en-latin9" into "colemak"
> (https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/kbd).
>
> Perhaps it would be better for us to modify a recipe for "kbd" package
> to make a symlink "…/share/keymaps/i386/colemak/colemak.map.gz" that
> would point to "en-latin9.map.gz".  What do people think?
>
>
> Or do you mean anything else when you say that Colemak feature is missing?
>
> P.S.  I use dvorak :-)
>
No, that's what I meant. I will try that workaround on my next 
installation. Thanks for the info

Re: Installation media requests

[Kete Foy]

On 02/01/2015 11:52 AM, Alex Kost wrote:
> And it is in GSD as well.  Do you mean you can't switch your console
> layout using "loadkeys colemak"?  If so, then the problem is that the
> upstream names this layout "en-latin9", so as a "workaround" you can try
> "loadkeys en-latin9".
>
This worked.
Thanks

Mark Weaver also told me to see 6.2.3 in the manual to change the 
partition label setting to UUID. I learned to do this in case their are 
multiple partitions with the same label.

Re: Installation media requests

[Mark H Weaver]

Kete Foy <kete@ninthfloor.org> writes:

> On 02/01/2015 11:52 AM, Alex Kost wrote:
>> And it is in GSD as well.  Do you mean you can't switch your console
>> layout using "loadkeys colemak"?  If so, then the problem is that the
>> upstream names this layout "en-latin9", so as a "workaround" you can try
>> "loadkeys en-latin9".
>>
> This worked.
> Thanks
>
> Mark Weaver also told me to see 6.2.3 in the manual to change the
> partition label setting to UUID. I learned to do this in case their
> are multiple partitions with the same label.

Unfortunately, although manual section 6.2.3 documents that 'title' can
be 'uuid', it's not yet implemented.  See 'canonicalize-device-spec' in
gnu/build/file-systems.scm:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (case canonical-title
    ((device)
     ;; Nothing to do.
     spec)
    ((label)
     ;; Resolve the label.
     (let loop ((count 0))
       (let ((device (find-partition-by-label spec)))
         (or device
             ;; Some devices take a bit of time to appear, most notably USB
             ;; storage devices.  Thus, wait for the device to appear.
             (if (> count max-trials)
                 (error "failed to resolve partition label" spec)
                 (begin
                   (format #t "waiting for partition '~a' to appear...~%"
                           spec)
                   (sleep 1)
                   (loop (+ 1 count))))))))
    ;; TODO: Add support for UUIDs.
    (else
     (error "unknown device title" title))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

      Mark

Re: Installation media requests

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Perhaps it would be better for us to modify a recipe for "kbd" package
> to make a symlink "…/share/keymaps/i386/colemak/colemak.map.gz" that
> would point to "en-latin9.map.gz".  What do people think?

I think we should stick to upstream, except if it turns out that
unanimously massively contradicts upstream.

Ludo’.

Re: Installation media requests

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> writes:

> Colemak is not very widely used

FWIW I'm a Colemak user too.  Seems we have at least 2-3 of them on Guix
already. :P

Taylan