Install Question

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, 19:03 Jerry Geis, <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I need to install UBuntu on a "closed" network.
>> How would I do that?
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>> I need to download EVERYthing onto a USB disk - make it installable and boot and install Ubuntu
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>> How would I go about doing something like that ?
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> I believe that the standard install image will install a working system without a network connection.
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> The problem is that you won't be able to update anything or install additional apps.

Exactly -- updates are the real problem.

For the update problem, see
<https://www.google.com/search?q=Ubuntu+update+from+thumb+drive+"no+network">.
I did not know about "apt-offline.sig" and "apt-offline get
apt-offline.sig".

Jeff