Add an optional step to set the keyboard map when dropping to single user mode

[bcr]

Summary

In section "Procedure 24.2. Overview of Build World Process" it does not explain how users can set a different keyboard map. The standard is US english, but some users might prefer a different keyboard map. Unfortunately, this can not be set right away when dropping into single user mode, only after the "mount -a" commands (either from UFS or ZFS) have been issued. I added a small optional step (do we have markup for these?) right after the filesystems have been mounted and kbdmap(1) becomes available.

[allanjude]

Does mount -a work for ZFS if it is not in /etc/fstab? Might need to do 'zfs mount -a'

If you are using UFS with a single partition, does it work without mount -a? or is it that it needs to write to /?

[bcr]

Well, the current version at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
has two descriptions: one for UFS and ZFS and both seem fine to me.
Anyhow, that is not the issue that I wanted to discuss here. The whole chapter might need some work, but for now, I just wanted to get the kbdmap into the installworld steps.

[wblock]

chapter.xml

1481 ↗

(On Diff #1877)

s/english/English/

1482 ↗

(On Diff #1877)

The "optional" above says that this step can be skipped, so it does not need to be repeated here.

1485 ↗

(On Diff #1877)

It seems like this can be a lot shorter:

<para>If a keyboard mapping other than the default of US English is desired, it can be changed with &man.kbdmap.1;:</para>

1491 ↗

(On Diff #1877)

This sentence does not seem necessary.

[bcr]

Good comments, Warren. I've cut down the section as you recommended. That way, the whole section in the chapter looks like a quickstart, but does contain enough information to get know what's going on.

[bcr]

Can I go ahead committing this latest change?

[wblock]

Looks good to me, although I have only looked at the patch and not the built document.

[bcr]

Patch committed, thanks for your feedback!