Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions
On 1/31/2020 10:36 AM, Yvan Masson wrote:
> Le 29/01/2020 à 18:16, MAS Jean-Louis a écrit :
>> Le 29/01/2020 à 14:50, Yvan Masson a écrit :
>>
>>> However, before loading preseed.cfg, installer asks for computer name: I
>>> would like this question to be asked in French and more importantly to
>>> have the keyboard layout configured in French.
>>>
>>> I have tried many boot parameters (layout=fr, layout=fr(latin9),
>>> language=fr, language=fr_FR.UTF-8…) but could not find anything working.
>>>
>>> After answering this question, preseed.cfg is loaded so language and
>>> keyboard layout are properly applied.
>>
>> It's a well known bug unfortunately
>>
>> I have asked the same question some time ago on the French debian-user
>> list, and frederic boiteux gave me some interesting clues.
>>
>> You may search for this thread :
>>
>> "Configurer un clavier français via preseed"
>>
>> A similar bug was reported with an Hungarian keyboard, without any fixes
>> so far.
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931368
>>
>> Regards
>
> Thanks for the information. However I just checked by doing a fresh
> installation with BIOS PXE boot, di-netboot-assistant and a preseed file
> served by TFTP: locale and keyboard layout are properly applied:
> - during install once preseed.cfg is loaded
> - after reboot
Yes, because this is delayed after the preseed file is fetched! :)
But if I'm not mistaking, you want to be able to specify the hostname
manually because you have no control over the dhcp server?
I'm kind of lost on what you realy want to have.
--
John Doe
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