SSH and the Ubuntu Server

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:34:58PM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:22 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: 
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> > > What if the Server team maintained the 2nd stage?  Then we'd be making
> > > life easier for you, right? ;)
> > 
> > Er. :-)
> > 
> > (In seriousness, any good-quality second stage would require some level
> > of cooperation from the first stage.  We tried that and it was awful.)
> 
> So I see the 1st stage as just installing the minimal server, then we
> boot to a login prompt...user logs in and can either do his/her business
> as desired or launch the 2nd stage (which they are told about in a 1st
> boot motd-type message).

The problem is that doing task selection in the second stage, for a CD
installer, requires keeping copies of a bunch of packages because it's
quite plausible that the user ejected the CD.  The code necessary for
this was horrific, and I think the problems with it are fundamental.

It's really much better to do the whole installation in one go, IMO.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]