Selecting keyboard during installation

[Erik Bågfors]

Hi all

Just installed ubuntu for the first time yesterday.  I just got
through the installation process when it was time for bed so I haven't
had a time to play with it yet.

All in all the installation was flawless.  It was very automatic which
is a good thing. I hope that it did find all my hardware but I'll look
into that tonight.

Anyway, the problem I had was that I didn't get to select keyboard.
Since I choose locale us-english it assumed I wanted a us-english
keyboard. That's not the case, in fact, most people in Sweden that is
knowledgeable about computers prefer to have the english locale
(seeing error messages in swedish is really scary) and most of them
wants a swedish keyboard. Last week I was in belgium and noticed that
most people there used a english locale but a belgium keyboard.  So I
think this is true for lot's of countries.

So, I vote for adding a "select keyboard" thing in the installer that
defaults to whatever should be default according to the locale but you
can still change to another keyboard, kind of like you could do when
you selected timezone.

Anyway, I'm really impressed by the install, I know that most of the
credit should be given to the debian installer team. They sure have
done a great job.

Regards,
Erik