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Re: Why preseeding with localized values?



Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I wonder about the reason to use localized values to answer preseed
> questions as described on
> 
>    http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html

I don't see anything here about using localised values in preseeding,
except for a note that there might be some questions in partman that are
broken and need to be preseeded using a localised value. AFAIK, none of
those are in areas that can be usefully preseeded anyway.

> My actual problem is to properly preseed tasksel.  I already had
> 
>   tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-standard, kubuntu-desktop
>
> working as expected.  Then I changed keyboard/language to german, and
> it stopped working.  Then I tried 

I'm afraid that I cannot support Ubuntu-specific stuff.

>   tasksel tasksel/first multiselect Desktop environment, Standard system
> 
> as suggested on
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/hppa/apcs01.html.de

This has changed since stable, now you would preseed: "gnome-desktop, standard"

(Assuming that you're using Debian etch.)

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