Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 26 17:49:20 UTC 2007


On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:03:32PM +0200, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> 2007/10/12, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:
> > For the record, this was since merged by Evan as the 'only-ubiquity'
> > boot option.
> 
> Will this be a boot option?

Yes; in fact we may well just use it by default.

> I remember the live-xforcevesa option (undocumented) which would solve
> the problems of anyone with VIA (and some others) cards that didn't
> work at all with ubuntu at that time and no one was aware of it. I
> found it by sneaking into xorg's files...

As far as I'm aware, xforcevesa has been a visible boot option since the
release in which it was implemented. I don't recall there ever being one
spelled "live-xforcevesa" ...

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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