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