<quote who="Christopher Vance"> > On 8/27/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to as the 'universal operating system', and is deployed on the tiniest > > of embedded devices to the largest of clusters, grids and carrier grade > > (beyond > > I'd like a trivial way to install a minimal upgradable system -- say > everything required to boot and run apt-get, and nothing else -- but the > ubuntu-minimal package (+ a kernel) seems to have far more in it than > that.
Yeah, ubuntu-minimal depends on a bunch of stuff such as filesystem support tools and system information utilities that may not be required in many cases. The Ubuntu installer has been modified to install ubuntu-minimal in the roughly same way that the Debian installer installs 'base' (which isn't a package or a task). That means, even if you use the 7MB netboot iso, you end up downloading and installing everything up to ubuntu-minimal anyway, even if you use the expert installer (which is more of a waste of time than a useful custom installation path) and avoid installing packages at the end (they're all there already). So, remaining options: Tidy up afterward or use kickstart/preseed to specify packages to install through automation. If you want to limit the packages because you're building, say, an appliance server that you're probably going to install many times over, then kickstart/preseed would be the best way to do it. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "Beware the lollypop of mediocrity: Lick it once, and you'll suck forever." - Brian Wilson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
