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fun fact: "minimal install" was a full install with a bunch of "apt purge" afterwards.

• SahAssar 3y ago
  Source? That sounds very backwards but also like something that ubuntu would do...
  • srvmshr 3y ago
    Just follow the installer log. It does the Ubuntu standard installation followed by removal of non-essential packages (office utilities, AV utilities etc.)
  • cocodill 3y ago
    On the installer image is a directory casper, there is another image filesystem.squashfs, I suspect that it is simply unpacked to the hard disk during installation. System deployment is really fast this way. Also in casper directory are two more interesting files: filesystem.manifest-minimal-remove and filesystem.manifest-remove with a bunch of packages names. And of course you should have a look at the log during the installation process, all the "apt purge" things show up there.
    • jbicha 3y ago
      That is no longer the case with the new default Desktop subiquity installer in 23.04. Instead of a single squashfs, there are separate squashfs files so the minimal install is faster than default in 23.04.