making the i386 livecd fit

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 22:55:22 UTC 2008


Luis Alfredo Prada (juankprada at gmail.com) said: 
> Maybe im ill be taking this discussion on another direction, but its my
> opinion. I've used Ubuntu and so its LiveCD installation. There you can
> select your language during the installation process and if you language
> isnt english then an aditiona step is added in the installation which is
> the 'downloading language support' or something like that. 
> 
> As ive also seen fedora's DVD installation method, i can see that you
> can manage some extra packages that are not included in the iso image so
> during the installation those packages are downloaded from the
> repositories.
> 
> Isnt it possible to add a similar feature to LiveCD?, like adding the
> 'Select your language' step and use the repositories to download the
> language support if its not english?

That's sort of orthogonal to having the livecd actually *come up* in
the user's requested language - they'll still need to be able to process
whatever language the live CD is in just to get to this point.

Bill




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