01-04-2020, 03:10 PM
(01-04-2020, 08:14 AM)brent.thierens Wrote: You mentioned that other Debian-based images would work as well, so in order to install e.g. Ubuntu, the only thing necessary would be to edit the etc/apt/sources.list file right?
I might have to rephrase that bit...
Given the installer runs from an OS and installs an OS then "Ubuntu support" could mean that it runs from Ubuntu and can be used to install Debian or that it runs from Debian and can be used to install Ubuntu. In the initial port I was talking about the first of these.
However it should be relatively easy to modify the installer to install Debian but it is in the "exercise for the reader" category. Basically you would have to patch install-debian to modify the debootstrap command line and get it to install Ubuntu instead of Debian (look in blog posts for clues on how to do that). The other thing needed is to rebuild the kernel as a Ubuntu package. I've just kicked off a build for that and when it finished then tweaking the apt config file for the kernel should be all that's needed to get the installer to work.
I have no plans to work on this myself but I'm happy to help out (to the extent that I am can) if anyone else wants to take a crack at it.