On Thursday 26 February 2009, Chris Carr wrote: > Is it possible to arrange this so that if any requirement for the > graphical installer is unmet (I'm thinking primarily of RAM), the > installer quietly falls back to text mode without inconvenience to the > user? It already does that. If a system has less than 96MB of RAM, the newt frontend is selected automatically. 96MB should be enough to complete a graphical install.