Comment 2 for bug 180365

# Keyboard and Hardware / Locale setup
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
#d-i console-setup/variant select United Kingdom
#d-i console-setup/charmap select UTF-8

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string Europe/London
#d-i console-tools/archs select uk
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB

# Ubuntu archive mirror hostname:
d-i mirror/country string GB
d-i mirror/http/countries select GB
d-i mirror/protocol select http
d-i mirror/http/hostname string gb.archive.ubuntu.com
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu/
d-i mirror/suite select gutsy
d-i mirror/codename string gutsy
# Ubuntu archive mirror:
d-i mirror/http/mirror select gb.archive.ubuntu.com
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/non-free boolean false
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/use_mirror boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/restricted boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/universe boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/multiverse boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/contrib boolean false
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/backports boolean true

# Disk Setup
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
partman-auto partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk
partman-auto partman-auto/automatically_partition select
d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true

# Network Configuraiton
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string

#d-i console-setup/variant select United Kingdom
#d-i console-setup/charmap select UTF-8

d-i console-setup/layout select U.S. English
console-setup console-setup/detect detect-keyboard us
console-setup console-setup/ask_detect boolean false

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string Europe/London
d-i console-tools/archs select uk
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US

d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $1$4m77pKlp$mdIWPzW6swZWACW8Pw9Ty/
d-i passwd/make-user boolean false

popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect lamp-server
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ntp-server ntpdate dmsetup screen multipath-tools multipath-tools-initramfs lvm2 snmpd scsiadd

d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note

I have tried several different recommendations based on other peoples sample preseed configuration files in each case it always prompts me for the keyboard detection stuff.

Regards,

James