The mini.iso for the Ubuntu distribution is legacy since version 20.04LTS (Focal Fossa). This is a bad news for those (like me) that formerly used this distribution to produce lightweight virtual machines for development, teaching, testing, etc. A distribution of the mini.iso for Ubuntu 20.04 is indeed still available here, but there is no guarantee that its availability will continue after Focal Fossa. An askubuntu post on the topic (there are several) is here.
So I decided to find a way to do without the mini.iso, and I wrote this script that takes to the ''tasksel'' step starting from a cloud image in the ubuntu repository. You have many options here about the image format to use: I refer to the .ova file that you find in fo