rolypolycat
December 30th, 2010, 12:03 AM
Hello!
I want to do a minimal install of ubuntu, and add bits and pieces I need. When I use a regular install(xubuntu), the install has no problem finding my wireless card. The minimal install is a different story; after loading and installing from the alternate cd, it then can't find my wireless or any connection. It wants me to specify stuff about my network which, as a network newbie, I haven't the foggiest idea what to tell it.
Now, if I've been reading these posts correctly, I can use the standard ubuntu install disk to download software to my minimal install? Should I just comment out everything in sources but the full install cd, and take it from there? (At least until I get a window manager and metwork manager running; the one for xubuntu seems to have no trouble finding my usb wireless at all.. The trick is getting it onto the machine in the first place.)
Or should I use an install from this aptoncd I've read about, and if so, how? I simply want to build a sleek system with little cruft, and I've never had any trouble doing this with the minimal install until I went wireless at my new place. I have no physical ethernet connection I can use.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I want to do a minimal install of ubuntu, and add bits and pieces I need. When I use a regular install(xubuntu), the install has no problem finding my wireless card. The minimal install is a different story; after loading and installing from the alternate cd, it then can't find my wireless or any connection. It wants me to specify stuff about my network which, as a network newbie, I haven't the foggiest idea what to tell it.
Now, if I've been reading these posts correctly, I can use the standard ubuntu install disk to download software to my minimal install? Should I just comment out everything in sources but the full install cd, and take it from there? (At least until I get a window manager and metwork manager running; the one for xubuntu seems to have no trouble finding my usb wireless at all.. The trick is getting it onto the machine in the first place.)
Or should I use an install from this aptoncd I've read about, and if so, how? I simply want to build a sleek system with little cruft, and I've never had any trouble doing this with the minimal install until I went wireless at my new place. I have no physical ethernet connection I can use.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!