Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems
* Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> [2004-03-31 15:11]:
> >"Select a keyboard layout": doesn't do anything (I didn't have a
> >keyboard conncted, but anyway).
>
> Do you mean you were given this option at the main-menu, which
> then did nothing?
Right.
> What is supposed to happen in this instance is that kbd-chooser,
> when run on a serial-console system, will autodetect the
> serial console and quit,
Yeah, this was probably what happened. It's just strange because the
user doesn't get any message about it.
> This should mean you don't actually get to see a kbd-chooser
> screen on a serial-console machine in the "normal flow",
> when DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high
Well, the fact that I got dropped in the main menu probably means that
the debconf priority was set lower than high.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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