Funny you say that - that's exactly what I am talking about that server
is pooping out and not finding the cdrom in d-i. With the kubuntu
installer being wacky, I just figured I'd go server and install
kubuntu-desktop after which almost always works. When server fails, so
does much hope. I left off friday burning a netboot cd and neon to try
when work leaves me be finally. This eventually worked.
That's also exactly where I was going with neon - start with kde (fail)
and move on to neon. I'm doing that with my current desktop, as
surprisingly I found finally amd drivers and mesa aren't too terrible to
use, so native kernels have been great alone, only kde's support has
been crap, particularly 16.04 default 5.5 plasma builds. Multi monitor
support is and has been highly broken, but somewhat getting better in
neon, so my current is a bit of a frankenstein combo of kubuntu+neon,
but it's been somewhat stable (finally) with my 3x 4k displays + amd vid
with plasma 5.7.2.
My laptop with neon is more of a mess right now, but a whole other thread...
-mb
On 11/08/2016 08:59 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
In my experience the server install is pretty much just a minimal
install that asks you at the end if you want to install certain
typical server software. I just normally just pick SSH server and
then add whatever I want after the first boot. I've always had less
problems installing the server over rather than the desktop install
because of the odd graphics card problems that pop up from time to
time (but hardly ever these days) since the server install uses a text
based installer. The server install will allow you easily install a
basic system and then install the proprietary graphics drivers
afterwards skipping having to have them to install in the first place.
The only real gotcha is that it takes longer to install since much of
your software (aka your entire desktop environment) will have to be
downloaded over the Internet rather than coming off of nice fast flash
drives or DVDs. You could, if you are in a hurry, install via the
server install disk and then use the packages on the desktop install
to feed your desktop install, but in the long run it probably won't
save you any time since you would still want to update everything over
the Internet and that would take just about as long. Then again, if
you have the server installed, you can actually be doing stuff to
customize your install at the same time that it's installing/updating
so it's probably all in all a speed win.
Brian Cluff
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