[Phil Blundell] > Absolutely, bring 'em on. I think there's no real need for > boot-floppies itself to deal with countries (except possibly to > choose a local mirror when downloading), and this kind of thing is > probably easier done in base-config. But if you are volunteering to > write the code you can do it however you want.
OK. More testing shows that the LANGUAGE variable can be used when the country is unknown. It only works when the LANG variable is set to an existing locale. The nice ting about the LANGUAGE variable is that is accepts language codes, not locale names. Thus adding LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LANGUAGE=fr in /root/dbootstrap_settings should work if the en_US locale is generated. To generate it, the 'locales' package must be installed, and echo 'en_US ISO-8859-1' >> /etc/locale.gen; /usr/sbin/locale-gen must be executed. I picked en_US as the locale because I believe it is compatible with the C and POSIX locale. I guess any compatible locale would do. Do you think this could work? I believe most of this should be done by boot-floppies before reboot to make sure the correct language is used by base-config. LANGUAGES is a glibc extention, and thus should be safe to use on Debian (except the *BSD port). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
