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Preseeding Ubuntu Natty 11.04

I decided to start this blog because of the never ending battles I have with remembering what I have conquered before, and thinking that other people have the same problems. The specific problem I was working on when I came to this conclusion was preseeding a Natty netboot install. EVERY version of Ubuntu brings more preseeding problems - something always changes, causing you to get prompted for something new, when the previous release worked without a hitch. This time (going from Lucid to Natty) was the keyboard layout preseed. I got the dreaded keyboard layout screen. Turns out the preseed file is only looked at once the locale is set (makes sense), so you have to pass the keyboard config in the kernel line of your PXE boot: LABEL stuff_natty64 kernel linux.natty64 append vga=normal initrd=initrd.gz.natty64 locale=en_AU preseed/locale=en_AU keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us console-setup/ask_detect=false netcfg/wireless_wep= netcfg/choose_interface=auto netcfg/get_hostname= n