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Ok, I did a very basic install of Slack on my old box. Well, somewhere along the lines, I must of put the wrong keymap, and now the keyboard doesn't ...
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  1. 11-24-2005 #1
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    Major help needed

    Ok, I did a very basic install of Slack on my old box. Well, somewhere along the lines, I must of put the wrong keymap, and now the keyboard doesn't work. It works just enough to boot, but thats as far as your getting. How could I go along on fixing this?
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    Do you get to a login prompt? If so, how much can you type?

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    use a bootdisk and then chroot into your fresh slack install.. edit the /etc file that slack uses for its keymap and put in the correct value. exit the chroot, umount your hdd's, reboot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bryansmith
    Do you get to a login prompt? If so, how much can you type?

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    I get to a login prompt on the box, but I can type nothing. And thanks for the help lordnothing.


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    For the record, I can't type in ANYTHING. I've tired a Knoppix boot disk, nothing. Gentoo disk, nothing. I get absolutely nothing from the keyboard on that box. The keyboard is good, because it's the same one that I used to install the slack
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    I think I found it. I googled around, and I found something about a file called rc.keymap in the rc.d file in /etc. Well, when I looked in mine, it's not there? Have I found the problem?

    How about this? Is there a way to where I can start a fresh install through a ssh?
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    Why not just re-install Slack from cd? It will take a lot less time than it's taking you to discover ways of correcting it.
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    It seems that now he can't type anything on any cd


    For the record, I can't type in ANYTHING. I've tired a Knoppix boot disk, nothing. Gentoo disk, nothing. I get absolutely nothing from the keyboard on that box. The keyboard is good, because it's the same one that I used to install the slack
    I don't get that.....
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    Can you get your hands on another keyboard just to see if the one in question is bad? It happens.
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