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Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS

posted by martyb on Thursday April 30 2020, @09:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-to-make-use-of-52-3.5-inch-floppy-disks? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS.

Compared to the DVD-sized downloads for some distributions, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mini.iso is only 74 MB.

I prefer using the mini.iso, but they moved it to a legacy directory. You can use the path on their downloads server, which appears to be HTTP only, or you can get an HTTPS connection to download it. Here is an example, from a mirror:

[*] These are my preferred sources.

Why?

Since they've moved mini.iso to a "legacy" directory, I would guess they plan to discontinue the mini.iso install method sometime in the future?

Fix for a possible problem install:

A user on Reddit experienced a problem in this thread:

"after what seemed to be successful installation, I don't get login prompt at all. Seems everything is loaded, but there is no prompt"

to which a user replied with the apparent fix:

"I fixed it, here's how: even if there's no prompt ALT-F2 works (switching to single-user mode), then you can login, and installed KDE with "sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop", and next time it booted I got KDE login screen." (this assumes you want KDE Plasma Desktop installed. You could probably substitute this with a different desktop file, or you may not experience the problem in which case these final details are not useful for you.)

BTW, as of this posting date, the locations on Ubuntu's Help/Wiki pages are URLs for older versions of this file, should you seek out more information about the mini.iso files from these areas on their website. Many places across the web are also likely to link you to versions older than 20.04 LTS, with a different directory location/layout.

Please share this information with others, seed via BitTorrent if you want, and enjoy the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mini.iso (Minimal Install) while the option is still available.

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  • (Score: 2) by engblom on Thursday April 30 2020, @10:32PM

    by engblom (556) on Thursday April 30 2020, @10:32PM (#988738)

    I don't know about the current version but in older versions there was a difference in the installer. The mini version had the old, usable installer, while the full DVD had an abomination that forced HDDs to GPT (on a non-UEFI system), had half the settings of the old one and of course because it f-ed up the partitions, a crash when trying to install GRUB.

    So yeah, I won't be using the new installer anytime soon. Thank god there are so many distros out there.

    I wanted to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 to my wife's computer without wiping the /home partition. The old install used MBR and Legacy BIOS. To my shock, it was not possible to install to the old system partitions as 20.04 installers just support GPT and not MBR. I had no other choice than booting up the full live USB and then doing the install manually by using debootstrap and chrooting into it for manually configuring it. I did get 20.04 installed to MBR partitions like this, but it was not a fun install.

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