On 9/24/07, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael R. Head <burner <at> suppressingfire.org> writes: > > The obvious suggestion is to use the alternate CD, but a graphical > > installer that has lower system resources would be nice. Or even if the > > Desktop CD had a boot mode that could launch the GUI installer using > > directfb-gtk (is that still around anymore?) without loading all of X > > and the entire desktop. > > What I have been doing on my 240MB (256MB minus 16MB for the graphics > card) > laptop is to log in to a "Failsafe xterm" session and launch ubiquity from > there. This way to skip the gnome circus has always made it. You might > prefer to > start the metacity& window manager before starting ubiquity. > > Maybe this would be easy enough to add as an option to the gdm session > selection? > > Tormod
Same here, I think there's a need for a console-based Ubiquity installer, and a need for it to be accessible on the isolinux boot prompt -- "object-oriented programming is really just a common sense extension of structured programming" - Roger Sessions
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