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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:55:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:43:02AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > How many locales are in your proposed list (could you post a copy
> > here)?
> 
> Using 'grep -v ^\# languagelist | cut -d\; -f4 | sort' in localechooser,
> which I think is more or less what we want modulo one or two exceptions:
> 
>   C ar_EG.UTF-8 be_BY.UTF-8 bg_BG.UTF-8 bn_BD bs_BA.UTF-8 ca_ES.UTF-8
>   cs_CZ.UTF-8 cy_GB.UTF-8 da_DK.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8
>   en_US.UTF-8 en_XX.UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8 et_EE.UTF-8 eu_ES.UTF-8 fa_IR
>   fi_FI.UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8 gl_ES.UTF-8 he_IL.UTF-8 hi_IN hr_HR.UTF-8
>   hu_HU.UTF-8 id_ID.UTF-8 is_IS.UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
>   kk_KZ.UTF-8 ko_KR.UTF-8 ku_TR.UTF-8 lt_LT.UTF-8 lv_LV.UTF-8
>   mg_MG.UTF-8 mk_MK.UTF-8 nb_NO.UTF-8 nl_NL.UTF-8 nn_NO.UTF-8 pa_IN
>   pl_PL.UTF-8 pt_BR.UTF-8 pt_PT.UTF-8 ro_RO.UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
>   se_NO.UTF-8 sk_SK.UTF-8 sl_SI.UTF-8 sq_AL.UTF-8 sv_SE.UTF-8
>   th_TH.UTF-8 tl_PH.UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8 uk_UA.UTF-8 vi_VN wo_SN
>   xh_ZA.UTF-8 zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8

So if I understand correctly, this would allow the desktop and applications
to be translated to the proper language, at the expense of potentially
incorrect date formats, numeric formats and suchlike?

Another possibility would be to run localedef during the live CD boot,
before gdm starts, so that it's not competing with GNOME for memory.  IIRC
we don't really trust the user to select their language early enough for
that, however.

> > Would the other locales still be generated for the installed system?
> 
> Yes, from my earlier mail:
> 
>   We would need a small amount of judo to make sure that the real locale
>   is generated in the installed system eventually, but we can install a
>   temporary init script or something to do that.

How about doing it during the final stage of ubiquity instead, when we'll
have swap available?

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 - mdz