Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > Tom H wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 2. I base my preseed.cfg on the example at
> > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt . Near the end
> > > > of
> > > > the install process I'm asked to specify a keyboard layout though one was
> > > > specified near the beginning of the file.
> > >
> > > Pass "DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" to the commandline and, when the installation
> > > stops, switch to VT4 to see which preseed value is blocking the
> > > progress
> >
> > The relavant line appears to be
> > Oct 11 19:15:56 debconf: --> INPUT critical keyboard-configuration/layout
>
> So you need to preseed keyboard-configuration/layout.

How ;)
I followed the pastern of a legal line I.E.:
     # keymap is an alias for keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap
     d-i keymap select us
I tried both:
    d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select English (US)
and
    d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select us
neither worked.

I found a workaround based on 
http://lists.debian.org/k8ktht$mt5$1@ger.gmane.org
by adding to the boot command
    keymap=us debian-installer/keymap=us