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

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:02:08PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> 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?

Right.

> 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.

We actually do that already, but what you said.

> > > 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?

Matthew pointed this out on IRC last night too. You're both right -
since swap is enabled by the time we run localechooser's
post-base-installer script, we can leave the existing code as it is
without a problem.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]