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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