[Caiman-team] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Feature #3186] Installer: make timeouts to accept default language/keyboard

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Issue #3186 has been updated by Ken Mays.

Assignee set to OI Caiman


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Feature #3186: Installer: make timeouts to accept default language/keyboard
https://www.illumos.org/issues/3186

Author: Jim Klimov
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: OI Caiman
Category: 
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


In order to allow for more unattended boots of LiveCD/LiveUSB from BIOS to X11 GUI (which can take a while, and the user can walk away from the booting PC in question), I suggest to add some timeout (10-30sec) to automatically accept English language and keyboard and continue booting into the requested GUI or text mode.
Such an utility was IIRC part of Solaris installer for a long time as a standalone binary which had a timeout and default value as parameters, and could return the user-entered value or the default one; but the feature can be reimplemented for Caiman in whatever way is convenient today.


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