Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-*

[thereisor]

I got caught with my pants down running 7.10, and support got dropped on the 18th, so now I'm scrambling to install 8.04.1. I'm using tftpboot, since I lack a dvd rom. When the installer gets to the package installation section, it fails.

A look at the other console shows the errors:



Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-audio
Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-audio-plugins
Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-desktop
Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-graphics
Couldn't find task ubuntustudio-video
Is there, perhaps, and alternate mirror I should be using? I was using us.archive.ubuntu.com.

I suppose I could just de-select the packages in question and grab them afterward. This is what I did for 7.10, and it always bugged me that I had to do it that way.

[thereisor]

One acceptable alternative would be to be able to supply an NFS share for packages. Then I could mount -o loop the iso and then share the mount point.

But I haven't found a way to configure the installer to point to an NFS share.

[thereisor]

Well, I see now what the problem is, as reported here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/199649

"can't do network installations of tasks in universe"