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Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop Environment

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Hi fellow Debian Users

I am currently trying to build an USB stick that does a scripted install
of Debian. This works very well, and much much easier with UEFI, where
you can just edit the preseed.cfg file instead of rebuilding an ISO
every time you make a change.

But: I am stuck with getting rid of two groups of prompts:

The first three prompts in any install are language, country and keymap
(German, Austria, German) in my case. I have googled around a bit and 
included the following for now (some of it probably redundant, useless
or cargo cultish):

d-i debian-installer/locale string de_AT
d-i debconf/language string de

d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false 
d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select de
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de
d-i keyboard-configuration/variantcode string
d-i console-keymaps-usb/keymap select German
d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select German

Some of this I grabbed from
https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/bookworm/
but this is a lot of information in these files.

The above is not enough to get my three selections without 
being prompted.

Similar with the menu where the desktop environment is selected.
I want LXDE and "SSH Server". I always drop back into the menu.
I have tried:

d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server
d-i tasksel/desktop multiselect lxde

I am using the most recent netinstall image 12.8.0, and
using this recipe for UEFI configurations:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WritableUSBStick

All other configurations (e.g. partitioning, mirror etc.) are picked up
just fine.

Any hints for me?

/ralph

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Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and Desktop  Environment Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-12-04 14:10 +0100
  Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment pocket@homemail.com - 2024-12-04 15:10 +0100
    Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-12-04 18:40 +0100
  Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-04 15:40 +0100
    Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-12-04 18:40 +0100
  Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2024-12-04 16:10 +0100
    Re: Preseed install, Selection of Language/Country/Keyboard and  Desktop Environment Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-12-04 18:20 +0100

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