Joey Hess schrieb am Freitag, 08. Oktober 2004 um 20:02:14 -0400: > Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > First glitch: I could not seed country/keyboard for germany. the > > append-line exceeded 256 chars and was cut :-( > > What version of the installer was this? If you're using the latest > builds, the variables and their contents have been shortened. Something > like this should work, and be short enough: > > languagechooser/language-name=German countrychooser/shortlist=DE > console-keymaps-at/keymap=de > de-latin1-nodeadkeys :-)
> I'm not 100% sure of the correct values for Germany here, but it uses > country codes, and the countrychooser variable has changed. > > If you're still out of room, post your append line, and I can probably find > something you can lop off of it. ok, my preseed/url was quite long, that can be improved > > > it is also not possible to put file-preseed and network-preseed into the > > initrd since they provide the same files. file-preseed is removed if > > network-preseed is installed. > > It's true that they contain some files by the same names, but I don't see why > installing them both wouldn't work.. I added file-preseed and cdrom-detect in pkg-lists/netboot/common. while building the netboot-tree there was a line like "file-preseed disapeared..." > although I don't know why you're > want to, really. I wanted to preseed the network-detection (disable dhcp, preseed dnsservers) then load the next preseed file by network-preseed. preseed/late_command didn't work, network was not yet set up, wget failed. > > > having three preseed packages which can coexist in the same initrd: > > 1. initrd-preseed: like file-preseed but does not depend on any > > cdrom-detect or mount-floppy. but it only can read files which are on > > the initrd. this would make it possible to preseed even before the > > language-chooser. > > I guess that's a reasonable wishlist. File a bug on the preseed package. I will do so. -- Jörg Friedrich There are only 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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