What are the pressed options for Ubiquity (graphical)?
Richard Neill
rn214 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Mar 9 02:08:13 GMT 2010
Dear All,
I've just joined this list, and I wonder if I might seek your help.
Is there a definitive list anywhere of exactly what preseed keys are
used by Ubiquity, what they mean, and what values they can have?
There are a huge number of documents referring to the various preseed
keys, but I can't find one exhaustive and exclusive list of them. Many
of the possible preseed values don't actually do anything to the
ubiquity installer. For example, this document[1] refers to the
following keys:
ubiquity languagechooser/language-name select German
ubiquity countrychooser/shortlist select DE
ubiquity countrychooser/countryname select Germany
ubiquity countrychooser/country-name string Germany
debconf debconf/language string de
ubiquity console-keymaps-at/keymap select de
ubiquity tzconfig/gmt boolean false
ubiquity time/zone select Europe/Berlin
ubiquity debian-installer/country string DE
ubiquity debian-installer/language string de
ubiquity debian-installer/locale select de_DE.UTF-8
console-setup console-setup/layoutcode select de
console-setup console-setup/modelcode select pc105
console-setup console-setup/layout select Germany
console-setup console-setup/variant select Germany
Yet the Ubiquity installer only asks 3 questions: which language, which
city and which keyboard layout. So presumably at least 12 of those 15
keys don't do anything, and (if I'm really lucky), this list includes
all 3 of the variables I do need to affect the right bit of the
Ubiquity installer.
To complicate matters, I'm trying to pre-seed the graphical live-cd
installer, whereas most documents refer to the text-mode alternate CD.
The Ubiquity GTK installer asks about 12 questions in total, so (I
presume) there are about 12 ubiquity variables I need to set in the
preseed file ... but I can't find out which ones they are!
I've already searched extensively, and looked at the ubiquity
source-code[2], but I'm now rather stuck...help?
Can anyone point me at the right place?
Thanks very much,
Richard
[1] http://www.joerg-seyfried.de/category/computer/linux/
[2] So far, the best I can come to getting near a list of keys is:
grep -Er '[a-z0-9_-]+/[a-z0-9_-]+' /usr/lib/ubiquity/* | grep db | sort
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