Re: timezone in squeeze installer

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Sunday 02 May 2010, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> 3) The system mumble a bit then show what i've attached.
> Here normally i choose what the installer propose: United States
> en_US.UTF-8.

That is correct. If you were installing in expert mode, you would have the 
option to select it_IT.UTF-8 as extra locale to be generated.

> Then, from what i recall, on the installed system i do:
>
> - dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
> Here i select en_US.UTF-8 and it_IT.UTF-8.

So this would then not be needed, but it is fine to do it this way.

> - set /etc/default/locale with:
> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Result: italian locale but user interface in english.

This is something the installer does not support, so to set it up this way 
must indeed be done manually afterwards.

Cheers,
FJP