German locale in NFSROOT

[Tim Cutts]

On 7 May 2010, at 12:35 pm, Andreas Heinlein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I need a german locale environment in the NFSROOT, I think. I have some
> scripts which set gconf values on the clients using
> 
> $ROOTCMD gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.defaults.xml /foo/bar...
> 
> Some of the values are strings containing german umlauts. This works
> fine under the running system, but fails when FAI runs the script during
> installation ("Invalid byte sequence in conversion input").
> 
> So I guess I need the german locale within the NFSROOT. How do I do this?

I'd presume you do it the same way you would with a real Debian system, you just need to do it by chroot into your nfsroot:

chroot /your/nfsroot/directory dpkg-reconfigure locales

Regards,

Tim

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