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Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

Tom H wrote:

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
Just tried. It didn't apparently do anything. I'm still prompted to specify keyboard layout :< 



What you added corresponds to
d-i debian-installer/keymap string us


Hmmm that works in preseed.cfg.


but if it works, why not?


'Cause I see lots of installs in my future.
'Cause I've detail oriented outlook. I want to know how things work want them to work "right".
Have I found a bug? Should it be filed against the software or the documentation?
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