SUMMARY: keyboard problem (booted off 40.F cdrom)

From: Wakeman, Lindsay (Lindsay.Wakeman_at_bl.uk)
Date: 05/27/03

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    Much thanks for swift responses from:

    Hamadoun Dicko
    Bob Vickers
    Shaun Racine
    Martin Adolphson

    Various creative solutions as follows:

    * Run /usr/bin/X11/dxkeycaps

    * Capture the root prompt h=`echo $PS1`; mount -t advfs domain${h}fileset
    /mountpoint

    * Use the octal value directly `echo "mount domain\043fileset /mountpoint"`

    * and:

    Shellscript: mount domain`echo -e "\043"`fileset /mountpoint
    (you don't need the -e flag on "echo" unless you are using Bash)

    Perl: mount domain`perl -e 'print "\043"'`fileset /mountpoint

    And if you can't access the backtick key either you could always do it this
    way:

    Shellscript: echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nmount domain\043fileset /mountpoint' >
    mountscript.sh
    Or Perl: perl -e 'print "#!/bin/sh\nmount domain\043fileset /mountpoint\n"'
    > mountscript.sh

    which would create a script "mountscript.sh" that will mount your domain.

    Thanks all,
    Lindsay

    ----- Original Post -----
    From: "Wakeman, Lindsay" <Lindsay.Wakeman@bl.uk>
    >
    > 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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