System Installation – Are Internet Installations Possible with Ubuntu?

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Many distros out there supply a internet install option where a small installation ISO is downloaded and is used to prepare the system to download the rest of the necessary packages directly from the internet.

This offers some small advantages compared with the standard CD install present in Ubuntu.

Is there a way to to a internet install with Ubuntu? What would be the reasons against supplying this method?

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The equient is the minimal CD

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

The minimal CD downloads the newest packages but is a minimal, command line install. Post install you would then sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop , or the desktop of your choice, or you can install only what you want.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems

I suspect it has not been popular enough to list on the downloads page, but I am not sure. You could file a "feature request" on Launchpad to list the minimal CD on the downloads page.

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The problem is most likely caused by using unetbootin or the Universal-USB-Installer. EFI booting has complicated the installation procedure and these utilities are known to sometimes have problems creating an-EFI installer correctly.

There's really no longer any reason not to simply use dd to create the USB installer, especially since you already have a working Ubuntu workstation.

First, use gparted or Disks to reformat the USB stick that you have been using, otherwise it is possible that old, remaining data will cause problems. (I once had a package checksum mismatch error from this problem during installation.)

Then:

sudo dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb

Be very careful to check what you typed before hitting Enter. Any data in the of= path will be destroyed.

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