Help with remote install

[Tom H]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:34 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to do a "remote" install but I am getting an error
> about "no disk space".
> My BOOT line is something like:
> linux /vmlinuz.ubuntu.20.04 fsck.mode=skip autoinstall splash
> 'ds=nocloud-net;s=https://IPOFSERVER/files/' ip=dhcp
> 'url=http://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/latest-live-server-amd64.iso'
>
> With only 2G RAM in the box it runs out of space. Note: I also
> tried adding ramdisk_size=1500000 which did not help.
>
> So my question is - "how" do I use these files (minimal) download
> - instead of the FULL iso ???
> http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/focal/release/

These are tarballs, not installers, so you can't use them for
autoinstalls. They're minimal.  ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard
aren't installed. No kernel's installed...