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Ahh, hey fellow Canadian eh !

I’m assuming you read my other post about getting the appliance up and running.

I was just about to post on how to fix the keyboard layout as well.

Changing Keyboard Layout
1. Log in as root
2. issue the following command from the terminal:
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

NOTE: The / key on your keyboard I believe is the – (dash).

Once you issue this command, its going to spawn a keyboard/language ‘wizard’ (if you will…) and will guide you through setting up all your keyboard and language layout.

NOTE: During this wizard, make sure you select US-English. If you select Canadian, it makes alot of the keys default to E’s with accents on them. For ex. the / (slash) key, is é.

Hope this helps !

-sparks

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Thanks that worked!

Another thing I noticed, there is no /etc/sysconfig folder, so I can’t configure the network. it seems to have broke when I did the VM conversion. Anyone know how to get the network to work? Probably need to have it redetect the card.

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Hi Red Squirrel,

You are correct about the network setup being a little mis-configured.

You probobly noticed that when you booted the appliance, it complained about not being able to find the network device.

The reason behind this (after poking around in the network settings) I discovered that the NIC in the VM is actually eth1 rather than eth0.

Solution:
From terminal as root, issue commands
1. find /sys -iname *eth*
** This command is going to show you what your network devices are mapped to as far as interface names are concerned. I’m assuming it will come up as eth1
2. vim /etc/network/interfaces
** This will open up the interfaces file
3. Change the eth0 to eth1
* If you have a DHCP server, you may want to commen all the lines below the line that starts with iface
* You can then change iface eth1 inet static to iface eth1 inet dhcp
** This will configure your eth1 interface to use a dhcp server
4. cd /etc/init.d/
5. ./networking restart
** note the ./ (dot slash) infront of the command to kick off the script.
** This command will restart networking on your system.

My apologies if this sounds too explained, but I figured for any newbies stumbling across this information, it would help limit the number of nooby questions in the forum. (Not that the forums are crazy active…but still.)

Cheers !
-Matt

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Thanks that helped! I actually had noticed eth0 showed up if I did ipconfig -a but could not figure where to edit network settings. I’m used to redhat based where its /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.