Re: live-installer on Squeeze, missing keyboard settings post-install
On 12/15/2010 12:44 PM, Philip Newborough wrote:
> I have now tried an installation with Marco Amadori's patch[1]
> applied. As stated by Marco, it does fix the problem and the chosen
> keymap is correctly set-up in the installed system. However, during
> the installation I was prompted to select my desired keymap 3 times,
> so it is far from ideal.
we've tried to address the issue within d-i itself, and it was working,
i remember that i tested it with swiss-german and swiss-french layouts.
i'll give it another try with your combination, and it would be nice if
you could do so too, preferably with the latest daily image from
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/.
> Also, this is obviously quite easy to fix in the installed system by
> reconfiguring the 'keyboard-configuration' package, but I guess the
> main concern is when a user selects any keymap, other than US, during
> the install process and uses any characters in their password which
> are not mapped to US. In such a case the user might be a bit flummoxed
> when their password is rejected.
no argument here, it's a quite bad bug (if it's still there).
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