Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i
This is using one of today's i386 netinst ISOs from sid_d-i at cdimage.debian.org/, but the beta-4 image behaves in the same way. I remastered the image to have debian-installer/keymap=es and keymap=es on the kernel command line. (Only the second directive should be needed, but please see #693956). Booting with the first main menu item results in the expected behaviour: no question about configuring the keyboard is asked, the keyboard layout is es amd /etc/default/keymap exists. Then d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB.UTF-8 d-i debian-installer/keymap string es d-i keymap select es was added to the contents of preseed.cfg and the ISO remastered with this file in it and auto=true file=/cdrom/preseed.cfg as the kernel command line options. According to the Guide: The auto parameter is an alias for auto-install/enable and setting it to true delays the locale and keyboard questions until after there has been a chance to preseed them, . . . Sure enough the language and keyboard questions were not asked. However, the keyboard layout in d-i was not es (it was us) and keymap did not exist in/etc/default/, (This could be #657218, which still exists in Squeeze, but most probably isn't). I continued up to installing GRUB. Then checked for the keyboard and locale files in /target/etc/default. The first was absent but the second had the correct contents. The booted system had a us keyboard layout. The closed #610524 is very similar to what I experience. except that the keyboard-configuration/variant question does not pop up. The syslog up to the partitoning stage is attached. Regards, Brian.
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