Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-04-14 Thread Jeremy Bícha
I tested https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mini-iso/daily-live/current/lunar-mini-iso-amd64.iso and it currently displays Ubuntu Desktop and Server 22.04.2 and 22.10 I believe it currently loads releases from https://releases.ubuntu.com/streams/v1/ so it will automatically include 23.04 once it

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-03-09 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso netinstaller is no more. The "flavor" would be able to be held in a very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it would download and

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Huh. TIL. That's awesome. On 2/24/23 14:33, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:20:25PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: This makes good sense to me. The concern I'm noticing here is that Secure Boot activates a kernel lockdown mode that prohibits kexec. Incorrect. It disables the

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:20:25PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > This makes good sense to me. The concern I'm noticing here is that Secure > Boot activates a kernel lockdown mode that prohibits kexec. Incorrect. It disables the old kexec syscall which doesn't have an interface for doing

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Secureboot allows kexec, when using the recentish kexec_file_load syscall which performs kernel image signature verification. All of this just works under secureboot. On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, 20:20 Aaron Rainbolt, wrote: > > On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: > >>> On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54,

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 2/24/23 11:51, Dan Bungert wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso netinstaller is no more. The "flavor" would be able to be held in a very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it would download

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Aaron, Łukasz and Dan have covered the details of the work in progress, so just a couple of notes: On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 09:53:16PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > My idea is to either write my own installer or use a customized version of > the existing Debian installer, and package it into

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Dan Bungert
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 04:54, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > > I've seen more than one person annoyed by the fact that the mini.iso > > > netinstaller is no more. > > > The "flavor" would be able to be held in a > > > very small ISO file (preferably CD sized), and it would download and > > >

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On 2/24/23 02:55, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: Hey Aaron! Actually, this is the one thing that sucks when we don't publish our team's roadmaps to the public (which I'm trying our team to start doing, but it's so busy recently that we didn't manage to yet): there is work ongoing on something like this

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Aaron! Actually, this is the one thing that sucks when we don't publish our team's roadmaps to the public (which I'm trying our team to start doing, but it's so busy recently that we didn't manage to yet): there is work ongoing on something like this - and actually this cycle! The MPs for

Fwd: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-23 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
Forwarding my response to Ubuntu devel list as I see my response going as blank on the list. -- Forwarded message - From: Bhavani Shankar R Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 08:32 Subject: Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor? To: Aaron

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-23 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 04:54 Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > Note, I'm asking this *very* early. I don't have the project I have in > mind even started yet. I'm not even sure what I want to name this > project. This is more of a "testing the waters" to see if this kind of > thing is even a possibility

Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-23 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Note, I'm asking this *very* early. I don't have the project I have in mind even started yet. I'm not even sure what I want to name this project. This is more of a "testing the waters" to see if this kind of thing is even a possibility before getting started. I've seen more than one person