Ubuntu
installation-guide package

preseed example file mentions (eg) locale setting without warning it won't always work

Bug #669453 reported by Patrick Gosling
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installation-guide (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The example preseed file https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt includes examples of setting locale and keyboard config that won't work if (for instance) the preseed file is being network loaded during a netboot.

It would be a significant improvement to the usefulness of the example preseed file, if there were comments clearly marking out the sections of settings that would be ignored when the preseed file is network loaded.

Applies to ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 (and, I think, all previous versions ...)

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in installation-guide (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Your Mom (h-blut) wrote :

Also affects 16.04 with local preseed.cfg (included in initrd)

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Your Mom (h-blut) wrote :

Also doesn't work through PXE boot parameters:

label ubuntu
kernel ubuntu/16.04/linux
append initrd=ubuntu/16.04/initrd.gz locale=en_US country=DE language=en keymap=us

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