Chapter 6. Using the Ubuntu Installer 6.2. Components Introduction Here is a list of installer components with a brief description of each component’s purpose. Details you might need to know about using a particular component are in Section 6.3. Shows the list of components to the user during installer operation, and starts a component when it is selected. Main-menu’s questions are set to priority medium, so if your priority is set to high or critical (high is the default), you will not see the menu. On the other hand, if there is an error which requires your intervention, the question priority may be downgraded temporarily to allow you to resolve the problem, and in that case the menu may appear. You can get to the main menu by selecting the Go Back button repeatedly to back all the way out of the currently running component. . Allows the user to select localization options for the installation and the installed system: lan- guage, country and locales. The installer will display messages in the selected language, unless the translation for that language is not complete in which case some messages may be shown in English. Shows a list of keyboards, from which the user chooses the model which matches his own. Automatically detects most of the system’s hardware, including network cards, PCMCIA and disk drives. Looks for and mounts an Ubuntu installation CD. Configures the computer’s network connections so it can communicate over the internet. Searches for ISO images ( .iso files) on hard drives. Presents a list of Ubuntu archive mirrors. The user may choose the source of his installation packages. Checks integrity of a CD-ROM. This way, the user may assure him/herself that the installation CD-ROM was not corrupted. Lowmem tries to detect systems with low memory and then does various tricks to remove un- necessary parts of debian-installer from the memory (at the cost of some features). 45 lowmem cdrom-checker choose-mirror iso-scan netcfg cdrom-detect hw-detect console-setup localechooser main-menu