Setting Multiple Locales for Jumpstart Installation
Tony 15 January 2008 21:45:47
Hi Everyone,
I`d really appreciate if someone enlighten me on this jumpstart issue. Basically I`d like to install multiple locales through jumpstart. That is, I do jumpstart installation and when done, I should be able to use all CJK environments (Chinese, Japanese, Korean...). To do this, I have added all the CJK packages from Solaris languages CD to my jumpstart installation server (I used the "add_to_install_server" script on the CD itself). I set the "system_locale" in sysidcfg to "en_US" because I want that to be my default locale. The problem is that, just adding the extra local packages to the jumpstart install server won`t make them installed properly. After installation, in CDE login sreen Cfor example, the locale entries are there but selecting one of them (for example ja_JP.eucJP) won`t switch the text to Japanese as it nomally would if I did manual installation. In addition, it won`t help to do a manual install of the languages from the Solarris languages CD. I still don`t get the working locales.
After a long tries, I discovered that one way to make it work is to add all the necessary local packages to your jumpstart profile (the file listed in the "rules" file) after the line "cluster SUNWCall", as follows:
package SUNWale add package SUNWaled add ...
The problem is, though, that there are zillions of packages for ja_JP.eucJP alone (based on SUN's list at "http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/techtips/sol8_locale_pkgs/ asiapac.html#ja". If you want more languages as well this list can become several hundreds. So my question is: is this the only way? Isn't there a simpler way to specify additional locales to be installed in jumpstart install process? It sure seems logical to have some way to specify this to me. Any advice will be much appreciated and thanks for reading a long post.
That shows the installed geographic locales, but we need all of them so we can decide which to install. I assume they were listed in a document someplace.
-- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
