crazy idea: server version of ubiquity

[Walter Lapchynski]

So desktop 14.04.2 is riddled with this annoying issue related to the
transition from tasks to metapackages for X. The release team is
working on the fix for ubiquity, but that's not universally applicable
to debian-installer. This is, of course, no issue for server, but it
is for Lubuntu, the only other team using debian-installer. We use
this to support the low-resource desktop users that LXDE is well
suited for. We could consider netboot/mini.iso but this requires a
good Internet connection, Ethernet, is prone to errors the standard
installers are not, and is terribly unfriendly for the new user of
Linux. Do you know ubiquity requires more memory than Lubuntu does?!

That being said, I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to
stay as standard as possible with the rest of the Ubuntu family. I was
thinking one easy way to solve this would be to create a simple
text-only (and thus, low resource usage) front-end to ubiquity. Then
Lubuntu, Server, and everyone else could use the same thing and any
issue affecting any product would affect all of them.

We are very limited in developers and I can't expect them to implement
such a solution, but I'm hoping that the much larger Server Team might
be interested in such a project. I'm sure we could rope in people from
across the family, too, but certainly they lack the motivation that
Lubuntu and perhaps server has.

Thoughts, comments, concerns, issues, suggestions?

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