Who pulled the plug on the server installer?

David Britton david.britton at canonical.com
Mon Jun 4 17:47:26 UTC 2018


The d-i based installer is still available and supported for bionic.

It's all documented here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Server_installer

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Apparently d-i has been replaced with something called "subiquity".  It
> does not support raid or LVM; you know, things you typically install on
> a server.  It also ignores existing partitions on the drive and forces
> you to blank the drive and start from scratch.  Who thought this was
> ready for production?
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