Thank you all for taking the time to answer my questions.  I will download the alternate installer and perhaps It will be more comfortable.<br><br>Joseph<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Gavin McCullagh <<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Jayson Rowe wrote:<br> <br> > I do not think it would be remotely possible to fit even a basic Ubuntu<br> > Server install on a 500MB root partition - I could see maybe a small<br> > 50MB-200-MB /boot partition but that's too small for / in this day and age<br> > IMHO<br> <br> </div>Of course it would be possible -- presuming you made separate partitions<br> for way /usr and /var which it sounds like he probably intended doing.<br> <br> Even ignoring that though, 19GB would be an outrageous minimum size for a<br> root partition.  It's not like this is vista.  A bug in the install CD<br> (which should ideally be reported on <a href="http://launchpad.net" target="_blank">launchpad.net</a>) sounds like the best<br> explanation to me.<br> <br> As someone else said, "advanced" installation, for people who have specific<br> requirements, are best done with the -alternate- CD which will give you the<br> "hole hawg" experience you crave (including LVM and software RAID if you so<br> desire).  In fairness to the developers, this apparent bug aside, the live<br> CD installer is created to have relatively few choices with newbies in mind<br> and I think that's a laudable goal.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Gavin<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> --<br> edubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Joseph Patrick Ryan<br><br>The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.<br> Wilfred A. Peterson