[SOLVED] How to choose packages for minimal Ubuntu installation?

Question

linux

Good afternoon, hackers!

I am learning Ubuntu 12.04 amd64.
Network installation put the minimum system.
In advance, I fed the preceed installer the setting - do not install the recommended packages.
But this is not enough - a lot of programs inevitably turn out to be installed (plymouth, ufw, etc.).
As an option, the subsequent removal of unnecessary software is possible, but these are already crutches. There must be another way.
I opened the initrd.gz image of the installer system, but I did not find anything containing a list of packages for a basic installation.
Most likely this list is stored somewhere in the package repositories.

Please help with advice.

use the official manual
Real manual work, I remember the times when I started with Gentoo
. There are enough minor problems, but they are all successfully googled.
Without optimizations, the disk is occupied 782 MB

It is a pity that it was not possible to find a way to achieve such results using the Ubuntu Installer.



update. Managed to overcome ubuntu-installer! See solution here

Answer 1

How about putting the system through deboostrap? It itself will pump out the necessary minimum of binaries and other things. In short, this process looks something like this:
Run

sudo debootstrap --variant=buildd --arch amd64 precise <куда>

Then turn around there. Then it will be enough to roll the kernel package (linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic), and the ubuntu-minimal package . If necessary, then also the bootloader. You can google for details at any time.

Answer 2

Use ArchLinux... this one doesn't even carry an installer with it, just a couple of small scripts for installation.

Answer 3

Do you want to have a minimum of packages? Install from the server netinst installer.

Answer 4

Tell me, is it possible to create an Ubuntu \Debian\Mint assembly with your own set of software (only adding packages) without advanced knowledge of Linux?

Answer 5

help.ubuntu.ru/wiki/remastersys
Remastersys is a special tool (utility) for creating a backup copy (backup) of the installed operating system, optionally along with all data. The created backup can be installed/transferred to any PC or used as a LiveCD.