On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:50:37AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Thanks for your quick response, Joey! And sorry that I come back to it with such a dely, but I wanted to locate the real problem first and testing the installer just takes sooo long ;-)
> Josef Wolf wrote: > > I wonder about the reason to use localized values to answer preseed > > questions as described on > > > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html > > I don't see anything here about using localised values in preseeding, > except for a note that there might be some questions in partman that are > broken and need to be preseeded using a localised value. Sorry for the confusion. I understood that note the way that the translated values are considered to be a feature. My misundarstanding was probably because englich is not my native language :) > AFAIK, none of those are in areas that can be usefully preseeded anyway. OK. > > My actual problem is to properly preseed tasksel. I already had > > > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-standard, kubuntu-desktop > > > > working as expected. Then I changed keyboard/language to german, and > > it stopped working. Then I tried > > I'm afraid that I cannot support Ubuntu-specific stuff. I understand. But, AFAICS, this is not necessarily an ubuntu issue. While ubuntu specifies its own tasks, the basic operation is the same. The problem seems to be that the task "kubuntu-desktop" is not available while installing, but it is available later as "Kubuntu desktop" when tasksel is called from the desktop. Changing it back to "ubuntu-desktop" fixed the preseeding problem. Sorry for the confusion! > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect Desktop environment, Standard system > > > > as suggested on > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/hppa/apcs01.html.de > > This has changed since stable, now you would preseed: > "gnome-desktop, standard" Sorry, but I'm still confused. I just did "debconf-show tasksel" and I got: tasksel/first: ubuntu-standard, ubuntu-desktop tasksel/tasks: Kubuntu desktop, Ubuntu desktop Can it be that the format was changed only for tasksel/first but not for tasksel/tasks? I come back again to the question I asked before: How do I find out what questions are asked and what values are valid? debconf-show is of little help here, because one needs to do a full install with priority=low to find out all asked questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
