+1 alternate CD It´s suppose that the minimal memory for use Lubuntu is 192MB, but with 256MB to install it, it´s impossible to use it with a very old computer.
My suggestion it´s to share a text install (alternate CD) by default. Anyway now Lubuntu isn't for beginners Linux user, so with a text install no body will be complicated. (My experience: the first Linux distro that i install [Ubuntu 7.04], i installed with the alternate CD, with my 256MB of ram memory [and Pentium 4 celeron] was impossible to install with GUI. Even if was my first install i could do it without a problem. The installations it´s intuitive. Sorry for my English. 2011/3/30 PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> > Text based installer + 1. > The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can > have l10n user interface. > Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's > still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should > we insist that there should be a graphical one? > Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS, > you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available > after the basic system is set up. > > Actually, we can do the same. > The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core > components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super > user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and > continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier. > > The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good > GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode, > too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite > simple. > > Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that > will almost always choose "automatic partitioning". Others who like to > use "customized" and "manual partitioning" are definitely advanced > power users who don't need a GUI installer. > So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need. > > Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian > installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the > text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer > after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does. > > Comments? > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset > <jpx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory > footprint > >> >> of the installer for 11.04. > >> > >> The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a > >> graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu? > > > > Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list "What do you > expect > > from Lubuntu" and i think that a very important point is "it will go > where > > Ubuntu can't" or something like that. > > A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory) > so > > if it's a little "ugly" (text) IMHO i don't see the problem. > > -- > > jpxsat > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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