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<p>That is correct . Though you are presented with many different options during installation. For example, you can choose to configure it as a mail server, or a myth headless media server, or a core LAMP server - which can end up giving you a complete installation that is only 100 or so megs.</p>
<p>This is my thought in using this. The standard distro of Ubuntu includes, aside from the desktop environment, various games, utilities, additional applications, etc. So, for an OpenSim server, I would not be interested in it having a desktop environment, or having Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice or LibreOffice, or any games on there. That is what makes this install method enticing to me for an opensim configuration since I can explicitly choose what I need and nothing else is installed. It's probably as close to Gentoo as Ubuntu will ever get when it comes to selective choice.</p>
<p>I used this distro recently to create a streaming media server (Tomcat & Subsonic) that I can connect to using my Android phone. The entire installation is 183 megs, not including the music I have on it that I stream.</p>
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<p>On 04/01/2012 02:34, Nebadon Izumi wrote:</p>
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<p>I am pretty sure using this Minimal CD installation and setup is exactly the same as using the full CD/DVD set for installing Ubuntu, here is a quote from the link you gave<br /><br />"The Minimal CD will download packages from online archives at installation time instead of providing them on the install CD itself."<br /><br />the only difference is it downloads the files from a public repository such as <a href="http://mirrors.kernel.org">mirrors.kernel.org</a> or something similar instead of installing them from the DVD media, otherwise its pretty much 100% identical as installing from the full Ubuntu DVD.<br /><br /></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Len W. Brown <span><<a href="mailto:len@lenwbrown.com">len@lenwbrown.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>A short time back I ran across a very nice way to install Ubuntu. I've seen some "mini" versions floating around, but this one should be referred to as "micro" actually.</p>
<p>It's around 23 megs (the ISO) and it initializes networking and disk preparation. Then you decide exactly what you want to include (such as LAMP, Kubuntu, Media Server, etc) and it downloads the most current versions of applications needed and installs them automagically so your Ubuntu box only has exactly what you need and none of the optional "fluff".</p>
<p>Although I have no issues whatsoever setting up Apache, MySQL and OpenSim on my Windows 7 machine, I would REALLY like to set everything up on a dedicated Ubuntu machine - most preferably a lean and mean virtual machine.</p>
<p>I've had no issues installing any flavor/combo of Ubuntu using this mini installer on VMWare, but I'm still unsure about the next step - installing and configuring Mono and OpenSim, etc.</p>
<p>I thought maybe (hopefully) one of you wonderful people might investigate Ubuntu Mini and possibly write up a "quick and dirty" barebones installation guideline for Ubuntu 11.10 & OpenSim 0.7.3.1 (preferably on a VMWare virtual machine).</p>
<p>Here's where you can download the mini (micro) Ubuntu iso:</p>
<p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD</a> </p>
<p>Thanks for your consideration. I have a static IP here at home that I've assigned to a domain name and I've ran my own OpenSim server for a couple years on a Windows XP and more recently a Windows 7 virtual machine. I'd like to break free of that and use the slimmest possible configuration of Ubuntu instead.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your time and consideration.</p>
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