Belgian keyboard (Azerty)

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I live in Belgium, and because the standard keyboard layout is a non-US layout (some weird azerty layout), I decided to write a small HOWTO for setting the right layout.

Setup

When installing Arch Linux, you have to boot from CD. Thereafter, right before you would enter /arch/setup, you have to run the keymap chooser:

# km

There you have to choose the right layout for the Belgian keyboards. The right layout is almost at the bottom, and is called be-latin1. After that, keymap chooser will ask for a console font, but here the default is perfect.

Now you can type /arch/setup and enter the setup, without having to type a "q" for getting an "a", an "=" for getting a "/", a "w" for getting a "z" and so on...

rc.conf

During the setup you'll have to configure the system. In the rc.conf file, there is a section called keymap. You must have a KEYMAP line like this one:

KEYMAP="be-latin1.map.gz"
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