Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 04:54 Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Note, I'm asking this *very* early. I don't have the project I have in
> mind even started yet. I'm not even sure what I want to name this
> project. This is more of a "testing the waters" to see if this kind of
> thing is even a possibility before getting started.
>
> I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso
> netinstaller is no more. It was never officially supported anyway, but
> apparently people got use out of it, so it seems like something that
> would be handy if it still existed. I'm sure we're not going to start
> producing it again, so I got the idea of making something that could act
> somewhat similar to it. I asked people about this idea on Mastodon and
> the response seemed fairly positive.
>
> My idea is to either write my own installer or use a customized version
> of the existing Debian installer, and package it into a "flavor" of its
> own, which would be capable of installing any supported version of any
> official flavor of Ubuntu. The "flavor" would be able to be held in a
> very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it would download and
> install all of the packages that make up the Ubuntu system at runtime.
> This would allow a user to install Ubuntu or any desired flavor thereof
> using a single installation medium, rather than having to flash an ISO
> every time they want to make a drive install a different flavor. The new
> installation would be entirely up-to-date from the get-go, and it would
> enable the use of existing small storage media for those users who don't
> have sufficiently sized optical discs or flash drives.
>
> I would eventually aim to make this into an official flavor of Ubuntu,
> however it would differ from all existing flavors in several significant
> ways:
>
> * It would be the first flavor that could not be installed onto a target
> system by itself.
> * It would be the first flavor that could install other flavors onto a
> target system by design.
> * It would be the first flavor that could install versions of Ubuntu
> other than the one it is based on.
> * It would have a different installer than any existing flavor of Ubuntu
> most likely, and would not be able to make use of existing official
> installers in any meaningful way without large changes to one of them.
>
> Because of these differences, I'm not sure if such a project could ever
> become an official flavor, and I may end up simply maintaining it as an
> unofficial installer by myself should I end up doing it.
>
> Is this kind of project a possible candidate for becoming an official
> Ubuntu Flavor, or is this enough info to declare it as not a possible
> candidate?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
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