On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:30:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:56:33PM -0700, Geza Kovacs wrote: > > Rather than shipping both kernels on the Live CD, wouldn't it be more > > space-efficient to ship just the baseline legacy kernel on the CD, then > > have an empty linux-generic dummy package with a low version number (not > > the actual kernel) be installed if PAE is supported and there is > 4 GB > > RAM; that way the PAE kernel will be automatically downloaded and made > > default upon the next system update (or if internet access is available, > > as part of d-i's post-install stage)? > > Firstly, that's pretty weird. :-) Secondly, it has the problem that you > get automatically switched to an entirely different kernel flavour on > your first update after reboot, which means that you could install, > think "aha, excellent, it supports all my hardware", and then discover > that the first update toasts your system. While obviously any situation > where a kernel fails to work is bad, in many ways it's much worse when > it happens on upgrade after you've done lots of work on a computer than > when it happens on a fresh install. > > It's much better to install actual real packages, one way or another.
There is always the risk we will break their system on installation of a new kernel. The updated kernel would install in parallel with the non-pae kernel from the CD, so they should just find they can boot the previous kernel as normal and whine a lot about it. ie. it is as recoverable as any kernel update. Obviously not ideal. -apw -- Ubuntu-installer mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-installer
