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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
That said, I can install OSs from a bootable CD. But the CD is limited to 700 MB and many distros are bigger than that. So I happened to be looking at Xubuntu's download page and they referred to this minimal CD thing. At first I thought it was just a really small version of Xubuntu but I went to the link and saw it was for putting bigger distros onto CDs.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...tion/MinimalCD
If I can't figure out how to get the installations working with the USB flash drives again, would this minimal CD route be a good way to go? Thanks. |
I used the Minimal CD to install Ubuntu on my old Fujitsu notebook. It works fine, and is certainly small enough.
But what you get is a bare ones
command line installation. It does not install a GUI. That's not a huge issue, as "working installation" means "working network support", so you can use apt-get from the command line to install a GUI and whatever else you want. Select the GUI you want to use, and Xorg and the necessary support to
run a GUI will come along as dependencies. You can then reboot into the GUI and proceed as you normally might.
I'd be more interested in why your installing from USB
stopped working. When was the last time it
did work? What changed since then?
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Dennis