On Sat 21 May 2022 at 12:24:04 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 18:44 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 19 May 2022 at 20:24:50 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Note, Debian (at least in the Expert Installation Mode) lets me set a Root > > > Password. Ubuntu doesn't, so one of my early actions after the Install > > > is > > > to enter "sudo su -" and, on the resulting Root Shell, type "passwd root". > > > > Depends on whta you mean by "Ubuntu". Its mini.iso offers settong a root > > password. I wonder whether the regular ISO can be preseeded? > > > Don't think the mini.iso exists any more. I recently needed to install > Ubuntu and the only options I could find where the full Gnome GUI or > the Server install. I went for the latter with the extra crud that > pulls in because I wanted to start from as minimal install as I could > before adding the things I needed.
Looks like the situation on jammy (22.04) is as you say. However, not so for focal (20.04): http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/ I downloaded the mini.iso last year and upgraded to jammy. -- Brian.
