This is the first-ever public Beta build of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), despite the fact that Canonical calls it "Final Beta," as some of the opt-in flavors had already been participating in the Alpha, Alpha 2, and Beta 1 milestones. How to use the Netboot installer (mini.iso) to perform a brand new Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.We've already told you earlier that today is the release day for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Final Beta operating system, along with the Beta 2 builds of the opt-in flavors.
There is a simple Solution If you want to boot in UEFI mode, do the following: create a bootable USB from mini.ISO, then copy the EFI folder from the full Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 ISO (you need to mount it to copy the EFI folder) to USB memory stick. By default, the Ubuntu Netboot image (mini.iso) does not support UEFI.If you have not used this type of installer before, please be assured that it is very easy to use. The Ubuntu mini.iso installer is text based.When launching the newly installed Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 minimum version for the first time, you also need a valid Internet connection to install Unity from the command line. Using Ubuntu mini.iso requires the installer to provide an effective Internet connection, because the smallest ISO images are downloaded from the online archive during installation, rather than installing them from the ISO itself.Before installing Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity, you should understand the following:
You don’t need to delete any packages or switch between GDM and LightDM. Using these instructions, you will get the complete Unity desktop environment and its default applications, including LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, Nautilus (files), Ubuntu software applications, default Unity indicator, LightDM login and lock screen, etc. It explains how to perform an Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 LTS installation using Unity and all its dependencies by default, but there is no standard/default (for Gnome desktop) the entire Gnome desktop package available in Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 installation.įor this, we will use Ubuntu mini.iso (Netboot image), perform a minimal installation without any desktop environment, and then install the dependent Ubuntu Unity desktop. This article is for those who want to install Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 using Unity instead of Gnome (Shell). ]This article has been updated to include instructions for creating a clean Ubuntu 20.04 using Unity installation. Although you can still install Unity from the repository, you may not want to install the entire Gnome desktop with Unity. Ubuntu 18.04 is the first long-term version of Ubuntu that uses Gnome as the default desktop instead of Unity.