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. -- Aaron Rainbolt Lubuntu Developer https://github.com/ArrayBolt3 https://launchpad.net/~arraybolt3 @arraybolt3:lubuntu.me on Matrix, arraybolt3 on irc.libera.chat
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