console-setup/layoutcode=en_US causes wrong keyboard selection
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: console-setup
I'm running a preseed install with Ubuntu 8.04, and what I found is with console-
I did eventually realize in ubuntu.seed, I had "d-i console-
There are quite a few examples online that use en_US though, so I would say there are two solutions:
1) Add a mention to the online preseed documentation that en_US and similar do not work for layoutcode even if they used to. (Preferred IMHO).
2) Work up console-setup so it accepts formats like en_US again. (Might save a few people grief, but I do see this as inelegant since US keyboard layout's not language dependent, this isn't the clean solution.)
Great work everybody! We've installed 1000's of copies of Ubuntu at the computer surplus I work at, and use it at home, and it works great! Since they are surplus, we get so many different models and ages of machines (right down to P2s and P3s), it's great to be able to just plug it into the install LAN and go work on something else knowing the install will work out of the box. (Also makes a nice burn-in test -- install failure points pretty solidly to a flakey computer 8-)
Could you let me know where the en_US examples came from? console-setup has never accepted this, so they're just unambiguously wrong - I'd like to get that corrected.