Bug#721460: Acknowledgement (debian-installer: Unable to preseed keyboard layout de_CH for Wheezy)

[smbd@gmx.ch]

I had time to do some more testing.

In the file keyboard-configuration.config I saw the following line:
sg) XKBLAYOUT="ch"; XKBVARIANT="de";;

So I tried the following settings:
language=en country=CH locale=en_US.UTF-8 debian-installer/keymap=sg keymap=sg

Unfortunately the settings were not set correctly.

The file /etc/default/keyboard contained:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT=""
XKBVARIANT="de"
XKBOPTIONS=""

I edited the file keyboard-configuration.config and changed the following:

*** initorig/usr/share/console-setup/keyboard-configuration.config    2013-09-28 19:15:48.344767770 +0200
--- init/usr/share/console-setup/keyboard-configuration.config    2013-09-28 19:14:48.260770188 +0200
***************
*** 1404,1409 ****
--- 1404,1411 ----
  | grep "layout[*]$default_layout[*]" >/dev/null
  then
  default_layout=us
+ else
+ unsupported_layout=no
  fi
  fi
  if [ "$default_layout" = bg -a -z "$default_variant" ]; then

 

After repacking the initrd.gz with the new file it worked.

The file /etc/default/keyboard contained:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

I'm not sure if that is the right way but it works for me at least.

 

Regards

Stephan