Hi, I made (yesterday and today) two installation tests of Ubuntu 7.04 customized version by JC Andr?, Rev2 (the one distributed at the SFD 2007 in Hanoi) on a laptop without internet connection. Here is the report :
At start : only two language choices : English or Vietnamese 1) After installation (Vietnamese selected, no more update-grub bug as it is solved) completed and reboot OK. Although no choice made of language but GNOME got automatically into English environment (instead of Vietnamese). Disconnecting and choosing languages : only two options "Vietnamese" and "English POSIX/C". Selecting Vietnamese = GNOME Vietnamese environment OK. 2) Adding language support not possible : to made it possible, I had to change the software sources, select an appropriate (fast) internet server and reload the list of packages (problems with downloading the list of packages from http://apt.hanoilug.org/). 3) Then adding language support for English was possible and resulted in the downloading of 15 files (about 21 MB), for GNOME, Mozilla, Thunderbird, etc. After that Language support seems complete : possibility to add other languages like French, etc. Disconnecting and choosing languages provided a variety of English choices. 4) An automatic update alarm indicated the need to download "hanoilug-vietnamese" from version 1.6 to 1.7 (11 files, 21.4 MB) I made an AptonCD of all the downloads (> 40 MB). Conclusion : if you install from the live CD with an internet connection set, it will download at least the extra English package files. If you do not have internet connection when installing, language support is not complete (I didn't try if I could still work, probably yes, but soon or late... full language support will be needed). EXTRA : Testing multimedia abilities (http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/ubuntu:vi:testing): Canal G?o failed with Mplayer plugin (needs Realmedia ? although it seems installed) ; radio-canada works partially. -- M. Vu Do Quynh Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, Bureau Asie Pacifique Responsable, Campus num?rique francophone (CNF) de Hanoi C?/ IFI (Rez de chauss?e, derri?re l'Amphi. Marcel Dassault) B?timent D, Impasse (Ngo) 42, rue Ta Quang Buu (Q. Hai Ba Trung), Hanoi T?l: +84-4-868.48.85 ; T?l?copie: +84-4-869.45.09 Sites de toile: http://www.vn.refer.org/
