don black <don.black@mail.tameside.gov.uk> writes: > I had to do the following before the machine was any real use:- > > Using dpkg-reconfigure console-data > layout family Type 5 > keys layout British That's what crashes the kernel -- at least a sparc64 2.4 kernel. I can't remember about 2.2 on sparc32, but if it doesn't crash and you can't do that during installation, presumably it's another bug.