To get the capability to change fonts, you need kbd-0.99. You may obtain this from ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/utils/kbd.
One advantage of downloading and installing kbd-0.99 is that you will be able to load international fonts (i.e Euro symbol) into your console device (It is tres chic to have three symbols on my keyboard, the dollar sign, the English pound sign and the Euro sign!).