Ubiquity installer not usable on machines with <= 256 MB of RAM

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:59:22AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman napisał(a):
> > Yes, generating some locales takes more memory than others.  Which languages
> > are you using in your testing?  It's possible that we can do something to
> > reduce this temporary memory usage.
> 
> Polish. I think locales could be pre-generated as I don't see localedef
> do much more than generating LC_* files in /usr/lib/locale/$LANG.

They use an excessive amount of space when they are pregenerated.

> >> But it is not distributed in ShipIt.
> > 
> > That is correct.
> 
> 256 MB and less is rather typical configuration of computer in Poland
> and possibly other countries. If the system does not install on such
> machines, user base will be cut down.

Users with too little memory to use the live CD may still use the text-mode
installer by downloading it.

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 - mdz