1) kbd-chooser For NetBSD, the wsconsctl(8) command lets you change the keyboard encoding. There may be a config file that lets you specify the default encoding.
wsfontload(8) lets you load fonts. You may read further documentations there: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wsconsctl+8+NetBSD-current http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wsfontload+8+NetBSD-current I would really like to help you more concretely for such tools, however i have no more free time for this today. I hope it can go better in a few weeks... 2) debian-installer >From what i can say, grub (Woody version) can't load NetBSD 1.6. I experienced it concretely :( I will just quote the grub home page (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/): "We really need help by BSD hackers. Currently, almost nobody works for BSD-based operating systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. So we have critical problems in booting later versions of NetBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not a big problem, because GRUB can boot it via /boot/loader for now. If you're willing to give help to us, please contact us." Regards, Xavier de Labouret

