4.1. General Options

This is a required section of the profile. General options include all the settings related to the installation process and the environment of the installed system. Among others it includes the following 4 properties which are required: language, keyboard, clock and mouse almost for any installation. If left out, default values will be used, which might not be in one hand with what you want.

    <install>
...
      <general>
          <language>de_DE</language>
          <keyboard>
              <keymap>german</keymap>              
          </keyboard>
          <clock>
              <timezone>US/Eastern</timezone>
              <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>              
          </clock>
          <mouse>
              <id>ps0</id>
              <device>/dev/psaux</device>     
          </mouse>
          <mode>                
              <confirm config:type="boolean">true</confirm>
              <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>
              <reboot config:type="boolean">false</reboot>
          </mode>

      </general>
...
    </install>


	

The reboot property in the mode resource is used to force a reboot after initial system setup and before the system is booted for the first time.

By default, the auto-installation process has to be confirmed by the user. The confirmation should be disabled if a fully unattended installation is desired. This options is used to view and change the settings on a target system before anything is committed and can be used for debugging. It is set to true by default to avoid recursive installs when the system schedules a reboot after initial system setup.