keyboard problem (booted off 40.F cdrom)

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Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:07:05 +0100
To: "'tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov'" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

  Hi Sysadmins

  I had to rebuild and restore a replacement system disk yesterday, and ran
into a bit of a problem with the keyboard mapping.

My method was to boot off the 4.0F distribution CDROM, label the new disk,
edit the new disk label, make the required root, usr and var AdvFS
domains/filesets and then restore vdump images from tape.

All was going well until I got to mounting the newly made filesets. The
mount command requires the format:

    mount -t advfs domain#fileset /mountpoint

 ... and I had no # (hash) key available on the keyboard (really, I tried
everything possible)

The sterling pound key was just that, and the dollar key was a dollar. The
hash key gave ^@

 In the end I got around it by editing a restored copy of the fstab file, in
order to obtain the hash symbol from the original
mount requests. The root prompt in single-user mode was showing properly as
hash so I may also have been able to capture a
hash in a file using the script command (if it is in the standalone system).

 Anyway, my question is, what should/could I have done to change the
keyboard mapping to get a hash symbol at the time?

  Thanks for any help you can offer, I could do without that hairy moment
next time round!

 Lindsay

Lindsay Wakeman
Senior Analyst/Programmer, Systems Delivery London
The British Library
lindsay.wakeman@bl.uk

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