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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.)

The most significant difference is that the resulting system is a
traditional command-line system rather than a graphical desktop.  How about,
say, 'cli'?  That should be sufficiently arcane to prevent the uninitiated
from being surprised.

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 - mdz