Alternate Install CD for Ubuntu Trusty?
Hi, Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases? Want to do some stuff to the hard disk before the actual install of Trusty. Otherwise: Should I just do the trial run and do things via a terminal window there, or boot up off an old Alternate Install CD? Ta, Carl Bayswater
I found you can choose "Other" partitioning option and do what you like with the drive layout and mount points. I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04b2 a couple of weeks ago and retained all my data volumes (LVM); just blew away / . I found it easiest to ignore all volumes except / during install, then add the mount points manually later. I did screw something up because EFI boot doesn't work now but I haven't bothered to find out what I got wrong. A nice feature is you can dd the .iso to a USB flash drive and it is bootable installer. No more futzing around with unetbootin et al. -- Rich On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
Hi,
Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases? Want to do some stuff to the hard disk before the actual install of Trusty.
Otherwise: Should I just do the trial run and do things via a terminal window there, or boot up off an old Alternate Install CD?
Ta,
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Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases?
Doesn't look like it: $ rsync --no-motd mirror.internode.on.net::ubuntu/releases/14.04/*.iso lrwxrwxrwx 39 2014/04/18 00:56:28 ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso lrwxrwxrwx 38 2014/04/18 00:57:06 ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso lrwxrwxrwx 38 2014/04/18 00:58:30 ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso lrwxrwxrwx 37 2014/04/18 00:58:54 ubuntu-14.04-server-i386.iso The key difference is it runs debian-installer instead of ubiquity. You can find minimal d-i images here http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/i... You can build your own alternate CDs using jigdo, but I don't know much about that.
Hi All, Overcame the need for an Alternate Install, by booting into the TryMe mode of Trusty desktop, and Ctrl-Alt-F1'ing to a terminal and executing the fdisk etc. that I wanted to in the first place. Noticed that Ubuntu 10.4 (?) wouldn't let the user back into the GUI by Ctrl-Alt-F7'ing, but that Trusty does once again. Good. Never discovered any non-cosmetic differences between terminal switching and opening a terminal window within the GUI. Carl Bayswater On 22/04/14 12:08, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases?
Doesn't look like it:
$ rsync --no-motd mirror.internode.on.net::ubuntu/releases/14.04/*.iso lrwxrwxrwx 39 2014/04/18 00:56:28 ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso lrwxrwxrwx 38 2014/04/18 00:57:06 ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso lrwxrwxrwx 38 2014/04/18 00:58:30 ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso lrwxrwxrwx 37 2014/04/18 00:58:54 ubuntu-14.04-server-i386.iso
The key difference is it runs debian-installer instead of ubiquity. You can find minimal d-i images here
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/i...
You can build your own alternate CDs using jigdo, but I don't know much about that.
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Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
Noticed that Ubuntu 10.4 (?) wouldn't let the user back into the GUI by Ctrl-Alt-F7'ing, but that Trusty does once again. Good.
If you mean the live system, it was probably on vt4. Knopper started an idiom of disabling some of the gettys to save RAM. Try Alt+Left (repeatedly) instead of Ctrl+Alt+F7 to look for X.
On 18/04/14 14:18, Carl Turney wrote:
Are Ubuntu still making Alternate Install CDs for their new releases?
No, it was dropped a while ago. :-( https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html The only hold out is the Lubuntu flavour: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
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