Yesterday, Raphael Hertzog asked me whether it could be possible to preseed the values for language and country in order to automate the beginning of the installation process.
I did some rough tests and it finally appeared that, yes, this is easily possible. The trick is of course feeding the correct debconf variables: At the boot prompt (Raphael tested with a hacked syslinux.cfg file but for some unknown reason this failed): linux (or linux26) languagechooser/language-name=French countrychooser/country-name-shortlist=France countrychooser/country-name=France (on one line of course) will skip language and country choosers, setting the locale to fr_FR and continue up to kbd-chooser.... This method, combined the the use of the preseed package, could allow for FAI (fully automated installations). I didn't tried to understand preseed yet, but as the methods are file and URL, it needs that really early stages such as language and country selection are achived to order to have access to the needed modules and steps for accessing the preseed file itself. So, this trck could be helpful some day.... You need to feed *both* countrychooser values even if the country is in the short list. This is probably because some wrong design of countrychooser (which I won't change in this release time...) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
