Ubuntu has always been said as the Linux distro for beginners and entry users. It comes with plenty of free software and most of the things will just work after you installed it. However, if you have noticed, the recent build of Ubuntu is getting more and more resource intensive (with more animation and effects) and also come bundled with plenty of software that you probably have no use for. Lounge Lizard Vsti Serial here. In short, it is getting bloated and doesn’t run well on old laptop anymore (at least in my case). While you can install another distro like, another alternative is to strip off all the software and unnecessary stuff and install Ubuntu from scratch. Here is how you can install a minimal Ubuntu on your (old) PC. To get started, we can use either the Ubuntu Server edition or the Ubuntu minimal CD as the base install.

Both come with the minimum packages to get the distro running and don’t come with any pre-installed software. The Ubuntu Server edition is more focus on server usage though. For this tutorial, we will be using the Ubuntu Minimal CD. Firewall Not Installed Properly more.

The basic steps to install Ubuntu Server Edition are the same. Basic Ubuntu Server, check the CD-ROM. To choose specific packages to install. Installing Programs or Other Packages. You can install programs to a LiveCD session in the normal. If you want to make custom Ubuntu-based Live CD. How to Create a Custom Ubuntu Live CD or USB. Installing Ubuntu. You’ll have the option to further customize the live CD with a package manager or a. Sudo apt install cubic Create Custom Ubuntu Live Cd Image Using Cubic. Once installed, launch Cubic from application menu or dock. This is how Cubic looks like in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop system. Choose a directory for your new project. It is the directory where your files will be saved. Please note that Cubic will not create a live cd of your system.

Download (mini.iso) for your PC architecture. The file size is only less than 30MB.

You won’t be able to create a USB startup disk with this iso file, so the only way is to into a bootable CD. Make sure your PC/laptop is connected to a LAN network. Insert the CD into your CD-rom and boot up your computer from the ROM. This is what you will see.

Select “Install”. Select the language, follow by your location.

Let it detect your keyboard. Optionally, you can select “No”, you can select from a list of keyboard layout (the most widely used is English (US)). Next, the installer will proceed to configure some files for networking. When it is done, it will prompt you to enter the.

This will be what you will see in the terminal later, so change the hostname to something more personal, like “ my-laptop“. Select the mirror for Ubuntu archive that is closest to your location.

This allows you to update your system and retrieve packages faster. Unless you are using a proxy to connect to the outside world, leave the HTTP proxy field blank.

The installer will now retrieve the necessary packages from the mirror site. Once it is done, it will prompt you to reformat your hard disk. I assume that you are going to use the whole hard disk, so in this case, select “Guided – use entire disk”. If not, you can select “Manual” and configure the partitioning accordingly. I won’t go into the detail here. When prompted, select “Yes” to confirm the partition setting.