using iMac keyboard

[jeroen]

I'm a total newbie to linux, trying to get he most basic things running for
our school imac (old model, 233MHz bondi blue) that was donated by one of
the parents. It's too slow for OSX, and OS9 is crashing too much, so we
thought to try out yellowdog, which turns out to be quite a bit more
difficult than expected.

the biggest issue is that I can't type ALT or ALT-GR characters on the imac
keyboard (you know, the little compact one). How for instance do I type a
pipe symbol ? or an @  ??



many thanks fro this n00b !