making the i386 livecd fit

[Juan Camilo Prada]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:55 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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
> 

The thing is, we should assume that a user able to download the LiveCD
and who is willing to install fedora on his computer might have a little
knowledge of English (if that is not true then the user might not be
able to install any distro at all, not even fedora DVD iso as it starts
in english). And so if the option to choose the language appears as the
first step the user could just obvious that it is for language selection
(as almost all installers set the first step to choose the installation
language), then we could add a "small language support" to the liveCD so
the installer can change its language as selected by the user (and only
the installer).