[Bug 49269] Re: installing "server" variant from alternate, file not found

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:18:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:59:18PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > This reminds me; I think we should disable the 'server' option on the
> > > alternate CD now that we have the server CD (and it's substantially
> > > different).
> > 
> > I wanted to rename it to 'minimal' (not quite accurate since it installs
> > minimal+standard, but it's close enough). Or we could rename it back to
> > 'custom', since the reason it was changed to 'server' was to discourage
> > the "Ubuntu is just for desktops" meme before we had the server edition.
> > What do you think?
> 
> What purpose does it now serve?  If we can answer that question, it should
> lead us to an appropriate name. :-)

I think it's "I have an Ubuntu installation CD handy because shipit sent
me one, but I don't like the desktop, so I just want to install a basic
system and build something to my taste from there". (We assume that the
amount of stuff they'll be downloading is comparable in size to the
basic system, otherwise a netboot install would do the job; that said,
netboot is more fiddly to set up.)

> Maybe something to get comment on via a mailing list...

I've CCed ubuntu-devel for comment.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]