Is it possible to install MATE 22.04 outside the Live CD boot-up route ? I would rather just use the text installer and get straight on with it - is this still possible ?
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My quick search did not turn up what I think you are asking ie: using a terminal to install. The MATE guide shows (CD, DVD, SD card, or USB drive) as methods to install. Here is link you will have to scroll down.
https://guide.ubuntu-mate.org/#downloading-installing
My thought is I believe the drive has to be unmounted to modify it. I use the USB and have had instance where the OS got borked and had to boot the live USB to get online and search for ideas such as Grub repair which can be downloaded from live session USB or another you want to install a program that was working for you and you can install in the try screen to see if it works or is available. Hopefully someone will come along with a method to do it your way.
Just my thoughts.
Edit rethought my answer, if you have an existing install and wish to upgrade with certain exceptions upgrade via terminal to 22.04. Initially I used the procedure one of many on this method.
https://www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-ubuntu-20-04-to-ubuntu-22-04/
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Welcome @JHIStarink to the community!
It sounds to me like you want to use the debian installer, which has been dropped by Ubuntu as its no longer needed.
Live ISOs are now only produced (this started prior to 22.04) and thus only GUI installers are now used. Ubuntu Server does use subiquity that is a GUI installer, but what is shown on screen is almost completely text, so is this what you mean?
As Ubuntu Desktop flavors only ever used ubiquity or the old debian installer, your description to me read like you wanted now deprecated Debian installer.
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Thanks all for the welcome and the input.
Yes, @guiverc, I'm not sure if it was subiquity but I do recall installing via some sort of text-based (at least in appearance) installer from mainstream Ubuntu from circa major release 12 to 1804 I think - I think it may have required interrupting the default install process before the regular graphical only installer got underway.
I don't really need to try Ubuntu MATE before installing it on each of the machines I am installing on and I also need to include a RAID disk configuration from the start hence the question.
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The subiquity installer is not that old, and whilst it existed back in 2018 it was still under development. The subiquity installer is what replaced the much older debian installer.
Sorry I'm not familiar with the history of the debian installer with regards the Ubuntu MATE project (and don't intend looking that detail up), but I am aware that the last release of an ISO using it by Lubuntu was back in April 2018 as the alternate ISO of Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Lubuntu's primary installer back then (as with Ubuntu-MATE then & now) was ubiquity, but Lubuntu offered an alternate ISO using the debian installer as it was required to install on computers that had <768MB of RAM. Subsequent releases of Lubuntu (including re-spins of 18.04.1 & later) no longer offered the debian installer.
I believe it was the debian installer you're thinking of, however that installer is no longer used & isn't available for modern Ubuntu systems.
As for automating an install, I'm not the person to advise sorry, and can only provide the following link : UbiquityAutomation - Ubuntu Wiki (though other links will exist).
FYI: I'm only using Lubuntu as example, as that's detail I can provide 'off the top of my head' (ie. without looking up dates/releases etc).
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