
You may also select nothing and just continue to finish the installation. You can also select "Manual package selection" which will take you to aptitude. On the software selection screen, you can select from a number of collections of software such as different desktop environments (kde, xfce, etc), a multitude of different servers, multimedia creation tools, media center (mythbuntu), etc. You can then follow the instructions from the text-based installer. To install, boot your computer from the the mini iso and select "Install" at the prompt. To use the mini iso image download mini.iso from one of the following links and burn it to a CD or USB drive.įor help with CD burning, see BurningIsoHowtoįor help with USB drive burning, see Installation/FromUSBStickįor differences between Ubuntu release versions, please see Releases.

The mini iso uses a text-based installer, making the image as compact as possible. The download time savings achieved by using a mini iso can be significant, as only current packages are downloaded, so there is no need to upgrade packages immediately after installation. Downloading packages at install time reduces the size of the iso image to approximately ~40MB depending on architecture (see below), as well as providing only the packages needed for installation. The minimal iso image will download packages from online archives at installation time instead of providing them on the install media itself.
