[Bug 1756656] Re: Poor selection of install options (tasks) in the server edition (PXE vs. Image)

[Brian Murray]

** Package changed: ubuntu => tasksel (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Poor selection of install options (tasks)  in the server edition (PXE
  vs. Image)

Status in tasksel package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  this is some comment about the installation options (Tasks) offered at
  the end of the server cd image's installation process. Please use the
  option list from the PXE installer.

  Reason:

  For more than a decade I've been using the PXE installation process to
  install my ubuntu machines, because that installation process was just
  perfect, exactly what's needed.

  The graphical installation process of the desktop edition was too
  unflexible (e.g. about encrypted or raid partitions) and always
  installed a graphical desktop.

  The server edition is almost similar to the PXE process, but the
  options of things to install at the end is too limited, e.g. there's
  no Xubuntu or Lubunt to install. In contrast, the PXE has a much
  better list.

  Until some years ago, Ubuntu offered an alternative installation
  edition, similar to PXE, but that vanished. If I needed to install
  ubuntu from a USB device, I preferred the Lubuntu edition then, since
  it comes close to the PXE installation process.


  However, it would really be nice if the server edition would offer the
  full option (task) list as given in the PXE image.  The PXE
  installation process was just the best and most powerful of all ubuntu
  installation methods. But there's more and more modern hardware
  requiring an UEFI installation which (to the best of my knowledge)
  does not work with PXE.

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