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9	<sections>	9	<sections>
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11	<abstract>	11	<abstract>
12	You need to edit some important configuration files. In this chapter	12	You need to edit some important configuration files. In this chapter
13	you receive an overview of these files and an explanation on how to	13	you receive an overview of these files and an explanation on how to
14	proceed.	14	proceed.
15	</abstract>	15	</abstract>
16		16
17	<version>16</version>	17	<version>20</version>
18	<date>2012-02-22</date>	18	<date>2012-04-08</date>
19		19
20	<section>	20	<section>
21	<title>Filesystem Information</title>	21	<title>Filesystem Information</title>
22	<subsection>	22	<subsection>
23	<title>What is fstab?</title>	23	<title>What is fstab?</title>
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436	<subsection>	436	<subsection>
437	<title>System Information</title>	437	<title>System Information</title>
438	<body>	438	<body>
439		439
440	<p>	440	<p>
441	Gentoo uses <path>/etc/rc.conf</path> for general, system-wide configuration.	441	Gentoo uses <path>/etc/rc.conf</path> to configure the services, startup,
442	Open up <path>/etc/rc.conf</path> and enjoy all the comments in that file :)	442	and shutdown of your system. Open up <path>/etc/rc.conf</path> and enjoy all
		443	the comments in the file.
443	</p>	444	</p>
444		445
445	<pre caption="Opening /etc/rc.conf">	446	<pre caption="Configuring services">
446	# <i>nano -w /etc/rc.conf</i>	447	# <i>nano -w /etc/rc.conf</i>
447	</pre>	448	</pre>
448		449
449	<p>	450	<p>
450	When you're finished configuring <path>/etc/rc.conf</path>, save and exit.	451	When you're finished configuring these two files, save them and exit.
451	</p>
452
453	<p>
454	As you can see, this file is well commented to help you set up the necessary
455	configuration variables. You can configure your system to use unicode and
456	define your default editor and your display manager (like gdm or kdm).
457	</p>	452	</p>
458		453
459	<p>	454	<p>
460	Gentoo uses <path>/etc/conf.d/keymaps</path> to handle keyboard configuration.	455	Gentoo uses <path>/etc/conf.d/keymaps</path> to handle keyboard configuration.
461	Edit it to configure your keyboard.	456	Edit it to configure your keyboard.
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505	<path>/etc/localtime</path> automatically. For instance, if you used the	500	<path>/etc/localtime</path> automatically. For instance, if you used the
506	Europe/Brussels timezone, you would write <c>Europe/Brussels</c> in the	501	Europe/Brussels timezone, you would write <c>Europe/Brussels</c> in the
507	<path>/etc/timezone</path> file.	502	<path>/etc/timezone</path> file.
508	</p>	503	</p>
509		504
		505	</body>
		506	</subsection>
		507
		508	<subsection>
		509	<title>Configure locales</title>
		510	<body>
		511
		512	<p>
		513	You will probably only use one or maybe two locales on your system. You have to
		514	specify locales you will need in <path>/etc/locale.gen</path>.
		515	</p>
		516
		517	<pre caption="Opening /etc/locale.gen">
		518	# <i>nano -w /etc/locale.gen</i>
		519	</pre>
		520
		521	<p>
		522	The following locales are an example to get both English (United States) and
		523	German (Germany) with the accompanying character formats (like UTF-8).
		524	</p>
		525
		526	<pre caption="Specify your locales">
		527	en_US ISO-8859-1
		528	en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
		529	de_DE ISO-8859-1
		530	de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
		531	</pre>
		532
		533	<note>
		534	You can select your desired locales in the list given by running <c>locale -a</c>.
		535	</note>
		536
		537	<warn>
		538	We strongly suggest that you should use at least one UTF-8 locale because some
		539	applications may require it.
		540	</warn>
		541
		542	<p>
		543	The next step is to run <c>locale-gen</c>. It will generates all the locales you
		544	have specified in the <path>/etc/locale.gen</path> file.
		545	</p>
		546
		547	<pre caption="Running locale-gen">
		548	# <i>locale-gen</i>
		549	</pre>
		550
		551	<p>
		552	Once done, you now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings
		553	in the <path>/etc/env.d/02locale</path> file:
		554	</p>
		555
		556	<pre caption="Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale">
		557	LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
		558	LC_COLLATE="C"
		559	</pre>
		560
		561	<p>
		562	And reload your environment:
		563	</p>
		564
		565	<pre caption="Reload shell environment">
		566	# env-update && source /etc/profile
		567	</pre>
		568
		569	<p>
		570	We made a full <uri link="../guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3">Localization
		571	Guide</uri> to help you through this process. You can also read our detailed
		572	<uri link="../utf-8.xml#doc_chap2">UTF-8 Guide</uri> for very specific
		573	informations to enable UTF-8 on your system.
		574	</p>
		575
510	<p test="not(func:keyval('arch')='PPC64')">	576	<p test="not(func:keyval('arch')='PPC64')">
511	Please continue with <uri link="?part=1&chap=9">Installing Necessary System	577	Please continue with <uri link="?part=1&chap=9">Installing Necessary System
512	Tools</uri>.	578	Tools</uri>.
513	</p>	579	</p>
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