-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Gonzalez G. wrote: > First of all, sorry for my english :-) > > I'm customizing FC4 install CDs. I need Anaconda to start in spanish as > default language (language selection screen must be hidden). > > I've followed this: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2005-August/msg00082.html > > It works very well. The installation proccess starts in spanish and language > selection screen is hidden. But when installation finishes and I boot in the > installed system, default system's language is still english. I > mean, /etc/sysconfig/i18n is OK, but GDM, Gnome, etc. is in english. > > Using system-config-language the problem is fixed, but obviously this is not > what I want. > > How can I set default system language to spanish during installation? What do > I have to modify in Anaconda code? > > Thanks in advance. I am guessing that you don't want to have pass in arguments to anaconda on booting the CD to set the language or run a kickstart file based on the msg00082.html email. At the CD boot prompt you could type in linux lang=es_ES The kernel will pass this on to anaconda. lang es_ES in a line of a kick start file will do the same thing as the linux boot options. Anaconda will automatically drop the language screen for you since it was set in the kickstart file. Since you bypassed the language selection screen during installation so that Spanish is the default language during an install, I am guessing that en_US was still defaulted elsewhere in the anaconda code. The system-config-language GUI files are called during first boot. The files in the /usr/share/system-config-language write to /etc/sysconfig/i18n. The code says that it will default to en_US if the i18n file is empty. If you used "dispatch.skipStep("languagesupport") line in your installclasses/myserver_installation.py", then you are going to have to hack another file to set the i18n file. Look at the def __init__ section and the def write methods of the anaconda language.py file. You need to take parts of that code and push it into, say, the main anaconda file if you are skipping this language.py file. Depending on how you hacked the language file and dispatch code the language.write function may not be invoked. If you don't add the "dispatch.skipStep() code, then a more skillful hack of the anaconda language.py file would: change all the en_US and other i18n parms to es_ES; hack out the calls that paint the gui; make sure that you write the i18n file; use the os.environ["LANG"] call to set the LANG variable for the remaining anaconda code. I am guessing about what you did. However, it sounds like you achived your objective of having the installer start the install in Spanish without asking. Greg from /usr/share/system-config-language/language_gui.py #If /etc/sysconfig/i18n file is empty for some reason, assume English is the only lang if self.originalLang == None: iter = self.langStore.append() self.langStore.set_value(iter, 0, 'en_US.UTF-8') self.langStore.set_value(iter, 1, 'iso01') self.langStore.set_value(iter, 2, 'lat0-sun16') self.langStore.set_value(iter, 3, 'English (USA)') self.installedLangs = ['en_US.UTF-8:en'] return -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDyTW8xyxe5L6mr7IRAnf2AJ0RLdOhKKfqriiPddjS6eI6DBztZgCffBB6 duhXjef9DsN2H70ARHlRnUs= =KDwf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
