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+ The Agafari ethiopic fonts from the source package were not included
+because it's a bit unclear whether they should be distributed. Please
+use Goha or GohaClassic if you want the Ethiopic script.
+ See /usr/share/doc/console-data/fonts/README.Ethiopic for details.
+
+
+/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
+------------------------------
+The keymap is loaded very early during the booting process.  It has to
+be set before any of the other init scripts that could fall to
+command-line.
+
+The first such script as of Debian 2.2 is /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh,
+which can spawn sulogin.  Thus the keymap-loading script has to be run
+before this.  Numbering of 05 has been chosen.
+
+This implies, as /usr may not reside on the root partition, that the
+keymaps in /usr/share may not be accessible at the point we want to
+load one of them.  Thus we need to have the keymap in /etc itself
+(/etc/console-tools/default.kmap or /etc/kbd/default.kmap) - allowing
+a symlink into /usr for systems where this would make sense would
+needlessly complicate the system.
+
+But as many keymaps make use of the "include" feature, the chosen
+keymap should not be simply copied into /etc.  Safe keymap
+installation can be easily achieved using install-keymap(8).
+
+If you wish to change the boottime keymap, you should edit
+/etc/console-tools/remap and add changes to an existing keymap 
+there. Editing /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz is not recommended
+as you may lose your changes. If you do edit this file, then
+select 'do not touch keymap' from the debconf choices offered
+by console-data whenever you upgrade.
+