How can I flash minimal server cloud image to a bare metal (laptop)?

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Hi, I was able to succesfully flash (via dd) “regular” ubuntu server’s cloud image to my laptop’s SSD using live USB. The system boots fine, etc. Flashed IMG is jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz (File system image and Kernel packed)

What needs to be done to flash (dd) minimal’s image to my laptop’s SSD?
Tried ubuntu-22.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img, but it looks like it may be missing smth that is part of jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz

Regular images: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/jammy/current/
Minimal images: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/jammy/release/

Thank you!

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Minimal images are not expected to be used on bare metal and lack various drivers likely required for the kernel to even be able to find the root filesystem.

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