


Mount the flash drive using the Disks disk utility.Ĭheck in the Disks disk utility to find out the device name of your USB flash drive. Delete all the files from the USB flash drive. The Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier tool is a command line utility that computes MD5 or SHA1 cryptographic hashes for files.Ĭheck that the results of the command match the MD5 checksum of the mini.iso file on the Ubuntu Documentation Installation Minimal CD webpage. If you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux download the Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier tool from the official Microsoft Download Center. Verify the md5 checksum of the Ubuntu mini CD iso file that you downloaded by running these commands: cd ~/Downloads/ You can download the mini.iso file to wherever on your computer that you want, but download it to your Downloads folder so that you can easily run the commands in the following steps without changing anything. Thus, the computer will boot in BIOS compatibility mode, and the installation will be in BIOS mode.ĭownload the Ubuntu Mini CD iso file for Ubuntu 18.04 or Ubuntu 20.04 from these links:ĭownload the file called mini.iso to your Downloads folder. The mini iso lacks the proper files for booting the computer in UEFI mode. While the minimal iso image is handy, it isn't useful for installing on UEFI-based systems that you want to run in UEFI mode.

It is possible to make an Ubuntu Minimal USB on either Ubuntu or Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 using dd.
