Mapping Your Keyboard

You can configure your keyboard for a different layout either during or after installation.

Supported keyboard layouts include:

Layout	Language
de	German
de-latin1	German (latin1)
de-latin1-nodeadkey	German (latin1 without dead keys)
dvorak	Dvorak
jp106	Japanese
sg	Swiss German
sg-latin1	Swiss German (latin1)
uk	United Kingdom
us	U.S. English
us-acentos	U.S. International

To configure your keyboard layout during installation:

1. As the first PM boots, select a keyboard map on the Welcome menu, press Enter, and in the next screen, select Install, Recover, or Replace.
2. On legacy BIOS systems, press Tab to access the kernel command line. On UEFI systems, press e.

3. Specify the inst.keymap kernel argument to configure the correct keyboard layout. The following example configures the Swiss German keyboard layout:

   inst.keymap=sg
4. On legacy BIOS systems, press Enter to continue the boot sequence. On UEFI systems, press Ctrl-x.
5. Repeat the preceding steps on the second PM.

To configure your keyboard layout after installation:

1. Log in to the first PM as root.

2. From the command line, issue the localectl command to configure the correct keyboard layout. The following example configures the German keyboard layout:

   # localectl set-keymap de

3. Repeat the preceding steps on the second PM.