Ubuntu 16.04 keyboard configuration

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Hello,

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 over PXE but the keyboard configuration
is configured to us after the installation is finished.
Which parameter do I need to set in the host configuration to have german
keyboard?

Regards - Willi

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Any ideas?

3

I believe you need to set this in a template associated with the host's
OS/hostgroup/environment. I ran across this foreman template for Ubuntu
12.04, which appears to be setting the keymap and lang to German:

Note that it is 4 years old, so the parameters may be slightly different.

Hopefully this is helpful.

Andrew Kofink

Software Engineering Intern
Red Hat Satellite 6
akofink@redhat.com

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Hi

> Any ideas?
[…]

Can you provide some more details how exactly you try to install Ubuntu 16.04?
Are you using a preseed file to automate the installation?

Within a preseed file you can use the following parameters to answer keyboard
related settings [1][2]:

d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string ch

In addition you can define many different settings as kernel parameters [3].

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/apbs04.html
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt
[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/amd64/apbs02.html

Cheers

Michael

··· On Tue, 31 May 2016 07:16:02 -0700 (PDT) "'Willi Fehler' via Foreman users" wrote: