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silentcuboid

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Registered: 2017-07-19

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[SOLVED]VBX Arch inst. hindered by no slash key(macbook)

Trying to install Arch Linux 2017.09.01 on VirtualBox 5.1.26 on OS X Sierra on Macbook pro 17" mid 2010 Swedish Model/Swedish integrated keyboard.

Following along youtube tutorials but did not get very far in the install since I cannot write the "/":s in for example "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1"

Earlier attempts with a Bootcamped Win 7 Virtualbox Arch install at least had the "/" available altough weirdly mapped. Now the "alt"-button has no mapping on most buttons.

(My Bootcamp is atm broken because of attempt at triple boot w linux and the OS within OS within OS didn´t exactly shine in performance so not interested in settling for this)

Any roadmaps to a smooth solution available here?

Thanks

Last edited by silentcuboid (2017-09-11 07:45:52)

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED]VBX Arch inst. hindered by no slash key(macbook)

Follow the official installation instructions on wiki, not a random youtubetutorial. Otherwise we can't help you.

Did you do

loadkeys sv-latin1

when booted in to live environment?

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silentcuboid

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Registered: 2017-07-19

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Re: [SOLVED]VBX Arch inst. hindered by no slash key(macbook)

Forgive me for taking your time. It was the first thing I saw in the wiki. I´ll try to do my homework first the next time. I was bit scattered yesterday.

Thanks for the help