Thread: How to select English (US) keyboard layout when preseeding with Ubiquity.

I am attempting to automate an install of the Ubuntu 12.10 LiveCD (on a USB). The Installer will do everything except automatically pick a keyboard layout. Below is the portion of my preseed3.cfg that should select the language and keyboard layout. Ubiquity will correctly install everything, It just requires that I choose a keyboard layout before it will proceed. Is English (US) the correct argument (I have also tried USA, en, and English) or is there another preseed option which selects the layout.

Code:

ubiquity    languagechooser/language-name   select  English
ubiquity    countrychooser/shortlist    select  US 
ubiquity    time/zone   select  America/Los_Angeles 
ubiquity    debian-installer/locale select  en_US.UTF-8 
ubiquity    localechooser/supported-locales multiselect en_US.UTF-8 
ubiquity    console-setup/ask_detect    boolean false 
ubiquity    console-setup/layoutcode    string  us
ubiquity    console-setup/modelcode string  SKIP
ubiquity    keyboard-configuration/variant  select  English (US)
ubiquity    keyboard-configuration/layout   select  English (US)
ubiquity    keyboard-configuration/model    select  Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
ubiquity    console-keymaps-at/keymap   select  us
ubiquity    keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap   select  us
console-setup   console-setup/layoutcode    string  us
console-setup   console-setup/layout    select  U.S. English
console-setup   console-setup/variantcode   select  U.S. English

Here is the portion of my menu which launches the installer and loads preseed3.cfg into the initrd. My understanding is that I may need an argument which specifies the layout before ubiquity actually launches. I do not know which argument to use if one is needed.

Code:

label unattended menu label ^Unattended Installation kernel /casper/vmlinuz append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed3.seed boot=casper automatic-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet  splash noprompt  ---

If anyone also knows a location where I can find all the arguments which can be used in the preseed, https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/instal...le-preseed.txt does not contain them all I might be able to solve this problem.

similar blogpost; maybe you'll find the answer : http://www.mybinarylife.net/2011/07/...installer.html

What you are doing is way beyond my skill set. So, all I can give is another pair of eyes. From the link that you give I see this:

# Keyboard selection.# Disable automatic (interactive) keymap detection.
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
#d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105d-i
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string us
# To select a variant of the selected layout (if you leave this out, the
# basic form of the layout will be used):
#d-i keyboard-configuration/variantcode string dvorak

And from the link provide by dino99 I see this:

# Detect keyboard layout?
keyboard-configuration console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
keyboard-configuration console-setup/detected note
keyboard-configuration keyboard-configuration/model select Generic 105-key (Intl) PC

I compare it with your arguments and I see a difference:

ubiquity console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
ubiquity console-setup/layoutcode string us
ubiquity console-setup/modelcode string SKIP

It may be just nothing. Regards.

I just want to say I figured it out. As i suspected I did need to add another argument to the append in my text menu. I stumbled onto this blog post http://sshrootat.blogspot.com/2011/0...atty-1104.html after posting. I added bother keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us and console-setup/ask_detect=false. My final append ended up looking like.

Code:

append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed3.seed keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us and console-setup/ask_detect=false boot=casper automatic-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet  splash noprompt  ---

I am not sure if console-setup/ask_detect=false is needed, but I put it in just to be sure.