[ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Introduce New Netinstall ISO

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Mon, May 19, 2014, at 05:32 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> 
> > I would like us to introduce a new netinstall type of ISO, small enough
> > to fit on a CD, and useful when you don't want to install the whole
> > suite of packages that come with Ubuntu Studio.
> 
> A "netinstall" ISO is in the form of the old style ALT iso. Is this what 
> you mean? This is an install only media except for shell access. The old 
> alt installs were the netiso with a package repo on disk and an install 
> script to install them. Not much good for testing.
> 
> > I'm thinking a stripped down version of our current ISO. Keep the core
> > stuff, like jack, so the installer can be used for simple testing too,
> > but otherwise nothing.
> > We will need a super light DE setup for this. I do prefer to have a DE,
> > with a web browser and easy graphical means of setting up wifi, and
> > such. Also, with the ubiquity installer. As little maintenance as
> > possible should be the goal of course.
> 
> Ah, So this is really a very lite live iso. It needs a WM and a menu to 
> work. But could still do the install an alt style so that the the
> packages 
> on the ISO itself would not be what got installed. I do not know how well 
> ubiquity would deal with this. But ubuntustudio-installer with the 
> expansions you have envisioned might do well... except that would require 
> (ubiquity too) a number of gui libs to be installed. I would almost 
> suggest against any of the DEs that we support so that the user would be 
> aware from the start that this look and feel of this ISO are not 
> representative of any of the installed flavours.
> 
> It would be good to define the exact use cases for this ISO.
> 
> --

By netinstall, I don't mean in the traditional term. Just that most
things get installed over the net, instead of from the ISO.

My view, as I said before, would be it is to be used for two things:
 * installing only what you need over the internet (so, no need to
 download the entire 2+GB ISO)
 * simple troubleshooting/testing (again, no need to download the entire
 2+GB ISO).

Also, it would be nice if could fit on a CD, all though the CD is a
dying medium.