[03:04] <scootergrisen_> How can i get danish translation included in the Ubuntu ISO files?
[12:44] <_ruben> hi, not sure if this is the place to ask, but is there some "easy" way to mimic the installers behaviour when using say debootstrap? or put differently: how would/should one go about installing ubuntu server into a directory instead of an actual system?
[12:54] <_ruben> tried making sense out of the various seeds, but couldnt really destile a nice clean "default list of packages" from that. that'd be a great start already
[13:02] <xnox> _ruben, just use ubuntu base tarballs? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/xenial/release/
[13:03] <xnox> it's a debootstrap of minimal server install, sans bootloader/kernel
[13:03] <xnox> a good starting point for e.g. containers and/or custom kernel/bootloader scenarios
[13:05] <_ruben> xnox: that's more or less what I already got by using debootstrap myself. looking for something that comes close to having actually install "ubuntu server"
[13:07] <_ruben> perhaps i should just do a preseeded installation and pull an image from the result, though was wondering if there'd be a (not too convoluted) alternative to that
[13:10] <_ruben> background: i want to move away from installer based installs to image based installs for my vms
[13:12] <xnox> _ruben, ubuntu uses seeds... to generate metapackages.
[13:12] <xnox> _ruben, thus apt install ubuntu-server is the same as using seeds to figure out what should be included.
[13:13] <xnox> _ruben, the Tasks too, are generated from seeds
[13:13] <xnox> _ruben, thus you can also do $ apt install server^
[13:14] <xnox> but that's neaty gretty details.
[13:14] <xnox> there are bigger and smaller metapackages and tasks for you to pick and choose how you want to do things.
[13:15] <_ruben> xnox: i reached that point myself just now (the server^ part is)
[13:16] <_ruben> seems i "need" standard^ too (when using my debootstrap env as base)
[13:23] <xnox> yes
[14:26] <cyphermox> yeah, you need both standard^ and server^ usually
[14:27] <cyphermox> not *much* is missing if you don't have standard, but just enough to be occasionally annoying
[14:27] <cyphermox> you can use tasksel to have a graphical way to pick the actual task you want
[14:28] <cyphermox> from that point you can pick say "OpenSSH server" and "Mail server" and have the same story as what the ubuntu-server install does
[14:29] <cyphermox> _ruben: ^
[15:00] <_ruben> thanks