On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > 1.) ideally have the user select the locale to boot up. E.g. let the user > > choose at boot time or once Debian-Live has booted into a Windowmanager. > > this is how it works atm. the locale you pass through kernel parameter > at boot prompt (see manpage of live-initramfs for exact syntax) > initiates the generation of the correct locales, and, if you use gdm or > kdm, the desktop environment will start localized as well (given that, > the appropriate i18n-foo is installed, which is not necessary for gnome > but e.g. kde has it seperately in kde-i18n-foo).
Thanks for the quick reply. I will try to learn what the above means now. > > if you have multiple entries in your syslinux configuration, the user > can just select between those doesn't have to worry about messing with > the prompt. > > > 2.) Install (regardless of how to use it) a defined set of locales during > > the build stage. In our case that would be French, Spanisch, German, > > English along with the keyboard layouts. > > keyboard are handled similar as locales, except that they don't need to > be generated, just switched. > > if you want multiple pre-generated locales in the image, regardless what > you select at boot prompt, you can just preseed the locale package > accordingly and put the preseeding file into config/chroot_local-preseed/ > I will have to read up on what preseeding is but I guess I will figure it out. BTW. is there any reason why ssh is not a default package for the xfce list ? -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
