Mini system with a menu to select installing DE
Mini text based system with a menu to select installing various light desktop environments
Use the One Button Installer to install a mini system (originally made from Ubuntu 14.04 mini.iso) with a menu to select installing various light (ultra light to medium light) desktop environments. It installs a portable system text based system (also portable wired network).
Tarballs - Versions
The following tarball contains phillw's nonpae kernel, made to be used with very old computers.
Trusty-nonpae-txt5.tar.xz
This tarball was updated/upgraded 2014-12-30 to the following tarball, and the kernel was replaced with the current generic pae kernel and comes with the boot option forcepae to run with most 32-bit processors and be able to update the kernel, also with Pentium M and Celeron M.
Trusty-mini-txt6.tar.xz
Screenshots and comments
The screenshots were made when Lubuntu Core was installed in a computer with Pentium M, booted without the boot option forcepae (removed). It boots from grub, but cannot update the kernel, so supplying forcepae makes it more convenient for the end user (you). Running in text mode needs only 39 MiB RAM in that computer, while running in the Lubuntu DE needs approximately 150 MiB.
This standard version of the One Button Installer works only from mass storage devices (USB pendrives, but also from IDE drives and SATA drives). And you can install in one computer and port the drive to another computer.