Hi Dave,

I am not sure if you already resolve the problem - thus following up
on the discussion - please feel free to discard the message
if the problem is resolved.

As far as LiveCD is concerned, it does following modifications to
configure things on installed system:

[1] locale
----------
'LANG' variable is set to selected locale in /etc/default/init

List of available locales can be obtained by running 'locale -a'

For instance

LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8


[2] keyboard layout
-------------------
'LAYOUT ' variable is set to selected keyboard layout
in /etc/default/kbd

As already pointed out, list of available layouts can be obtained
by running 'kbd -s'

For instance

LAYOUT=Czech

Once you setup those two variables, you should be on a par
with LiveCD installation - at least as far as known lacking
support for setting things in AI is concerned.

I have tried to set LANG and LAYOUT to Czech locale and keyboard
layout on system installed with AI inside Virtual Box guest
and everything worked as expected after reboot.

You could set up things

* after installation but before reboot

# beadm mount opensolaris /a
# vi /a/etc/default/init
# vi /a/etc/default/kbd
# beadm umount opensolaris
# reboot

* on installed system (and reboot after that,
  so that changes take effect).

That said, it is possible you might run into new issues (which were
not hit yet), as AI uses different transfer method to populate the
target (IPS versus CPIO used by LiveCD).

Thank you,
Jan


Dave Price wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  We still remain somewhat amazed that things were not 
> fixed before 2009.06 released...   Oh well...   I had spotted the one 
> bugzilla item but I don't think I had spotted and certainly not read in 
> detail, the second of the bugzilla items.
>
> To be sure I understand, are you
>
> a). suggesting I just "log in quickly" at the available
> login prompt and issues the kbd -s UK-English instruction   and just hope I 
> do it quick enough before the autoinstall reaches the crucial bit?
>
> or
>
> b). do I need to change the grub screen, boot single user and then issue the 
> kbd before then manually trying to cause the AI install to run?
>
> We have a couple of "test machines" we are playing with here so I can easily
> redo an autoinstall once I am sure I understand what you are suggesting.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Price


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