vi problems, linux keycodes and yaboot questions
Hi all,
I have dist-upgraded to woody a second time, because the first time was a
failure (I used "dpkg-reconfigure console-common" to change the keyboard
layout. This way I got an unusable keyboard). This time I re-partitioned the
IDE drive and then reinstalled the base system of potato 2.2r3. Then I added
the following entries to "sources.list":
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free
typed
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Now I can't use vi anymore. But I need it to modify "yaboot.conf" etc. When
I type for example "vi sources.list" I got the message "vi: wrapper couldn't
execute /usr/bin/vi nor /bin/elvis-tiny". What's wrong with vi?
Secondly, I want to change my keyboard layout from US to Swiss german (or at
least German). On this maillist I heard a lot about linux keycodes. After my
difficulties with "console common" I may ask you if linux keycodes are
another way to adapt the keyboard? Are there any howto's or examples on this
topic?
Thirdly, I have a semi installed yaboot. It means I can chose between Linux
or MacOS using the option key on my Apple Pro Keyboard. When I start Linux,
yaboot is called up (Welcome to yaboot 0.9). now i have read the handout
"yaboot/ybin FAQ" of Eric Peden. There I found the hint that an exact yaboot
installation (via ybin) needs a bootstrap partition of the type
"Apple_Bootstrap" and further down he says that the bootstrap partition
have to be the frist one. My partition tool (mac fdisk ??) shows the
following partition table:
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
/dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
/dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh
/dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOkit Macintosh
/dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition
/dev/hda9 Apple_HFS Linuxboot (I think this should be the place for
yaboot, but I'm not sure)
/dev/hda10 Apple_HFS System (the place of MacOS 9.1)
/dev/hda11 Apple_HFS Daten (the place where I save all my stuff under
MacOS)
/dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap (my Linux swap partition)
/dev/hda13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root (all my Debian stuff)
/dev/hda14 Apple_Free Extra
Now my question: Have I to rename partition 9 from Apple_HFS to
Apple_Bootstrap? What about "first partition" ( is 9 "first" enough)?
I would like to thank all those who could give me some advice in advance!
Roland Wegmann
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