Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> 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
d-i keyboard-configuration/layout string us
What you added corresponds to
d-i debian-installer/keymap string us
but if it works, why not?
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