On 9/7/07, Frank Ludolph <Frank.Ludolph at sun.com> wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: > > One question, and one addition: > > > >> 1. Remove Installer language window. Installer will run in LiveCD > >> system language. > > > > How are you expecting that the system language will be set? The live > > CD prompts for a keyboard layout while it's still in text mode since > > we can't change it during the X session, but otherwise nothing will > > prompt for the language, and I don't see a desktop application which > > would let me do it, either. > On a LiveCD the installer is just another app, and as such runs in the > same language as the desktop.This implies that the language question > should be asked during startup, perhaps just before the keyboard > question. Sanjay has said that due to space constraints there will only > be one language on a CD (meaning there will have to be 10 different > CDs). In this case it wouldn't be necessary to ask the language > question, but it may also have implications on the installer - what if > I'm using the English CD and want German language support? It could be > downloaded from the repository during the install, but if it can't and > must be manually downloaded after reboot, should we even be asking the > question?
It seems to me that the installer should assume that if the user knew enough of the language to get to start the installer, the installation can occur in that language. This implies that there wouldn't need to be a pre-installer language selection. A nice touch in the installer would be to ask what other languages/locales are needed and have those pulled from the software repository. If other languages are selected, a follow on question would be to figure out which one is the default for the installed system. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
