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Set timezone and keyboard on firstboot (or soon after) #38
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Jeremy created a poll asking users what they thought about setting timezone and/or keyboard on firstboot:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/polls/would-you-be-able-set-time-andor-keyboard-installfirstboot
Majority seems to think this is a good idea. So do I.
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JedMeister commentedon Oct 19, 2014
I have just been having a look at this and I think that we should reconsider whether we make this a default component. Considering that additional packages need to be installed and that I have just gone through the dpkg-reconfigure options, I suspect that it is possibly going to be confusing and frustrating for most current users to have to go through all that...
If we could implement some easier, more straightforward method great; but in the meantime I think that documentation is adequate:
JedMeister commentedon Jul 14, 2015
Repegged to v14.1 - should be one of the "advanced inithooks" in #369
[-]Set timezone and keyboard on firstboot[/-][+]Set timezone and keyboard on firstboot (or soon after)[/+]JedMeister commentedon Mar 29, 2017
This functionality is included in confconsole as of v1.0.0+ (to be released any day now). Whilst it doesn't do it at firstboot, it is pretty straight forward and easy to access. So I'm closing this for now.
Once we resolve #768 then the firstboot aspect will also be sort of covered (albeit only for preseeded installs). Once we implement some way of interactively accessing Confconsole during firstboot, then the original intention of this will be totally covered.