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Text based installer + 1.
The alternate CD with console-based UI is good enough IMO if it can
have l10n user interface.
Windows installer has long been text-based since windows 3.1 and it's
still text-based in windows xp. Nobody complains of this so why should
we insist that there should be a graphical one?
Yes, if you boot from Windows xp installer cd on a machine without OS,
you'll enter text-based installer. The GUI part is only available
after the basic system is set up.

Actually, we can do the same.
The text-based installer (part I) only installs base system and core
components and then reboot and automatically login X11 with a super
user. After boot, a GUI-based installer (part II) is launched and
continues the remaining parts. This can make things much easier.

The only problem with this approach is, we cannot have a good
GUI-based UI for partitioning. Windows XP handle this in text-mode,
too. However, I see no real problem here. The rationale is quite
simple.

Users who doesn't know how to use text-based UI are also the ones that
will almost always choose "automatic partitioning". Others who like to
use "customized" and "manual partitioning" are definitely advanced
power users who don't need a GUI installer.
So don't put 80% of development resources to do what only 20% people need.

Please, if someone know how to work with the text-based debian
installer, consider this approach. Let's set up a base system with the
text-based one, and continue the remainng parts in a GUI installer
after rebooting into X11. This is also what Windows does.

Comments?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
<jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to reduce the memory footprint
>> >> of the installer for 11.04.
>>
>> The other question this poses is, is it really necessary to have a
>> graphical installer as the default for Lubuntu?
>
> Some time ago, there was a question on the mailing list "What do you expect
> from Lubuntu" and i think that a very important point is "it will go where
> Ubuntu can't" or something like that.
> A graphical installer is something that we do only one time (in theory) so
> if it's a little "ugly" (text) IMHO i don't see the problem.
> --
> jpxsat
>
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