Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri May 4 16:32:31 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 17:06 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 10:51 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> 
> > Good call. I thought people could choose language in the isolinux menu before boot. They can't. So maybe we don't need any translations at all.
> > 
> > It's weird though. Do we really have no localized livecds at all?
> 
> We don't ship any as official releases. We used to run gdm with a
> timeout on live images expressly so people could pick a non-English
> language before logging in. Then gdm lost the ability to set language
> and so there was no way to do it any more.

We may bring the language selection back for f18, in a different form -
the idea is to run this new 'try-or-install?' window before the actual
liveuser session gets started. Then we can select the language there.



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