[Bug 1053770] Re: ubuntu-server install takes up too much space

[Paul Larson]

This is a bit of a moving target, but looking at the branch that was recently proposed for this, it looks like the new minimums set for minimal requirements are:
default (no additional tasks selected): 700 MB (N.B. if doing an install on a system with the minimal memory config also, this could be too low because swapspace will be needed)
All tasks selected: 1.4G

Currently, with the 20121015.2 image, I'm seeing the following on amd64:
No extra tasks selected (default): 1.1G
 - After apt-get clean: 986M
All tasks selected: 1.7G
 - After apt-get clean: 1.6G

So I think our numbers here are still on the low side unless I misread
(I lack context in the patch to tell for sure so I'm just comparing
against text of current serverguide)

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Title:
  ubuntu-server install takes up too much space

Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubuntu-docs” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Installing a recent iso of ubuntu-server, I observed that a base
  install (no tasks selected) took up approximately 1G on amd64, and
  800M on i386.

  According to the recommendations on precise at https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/preparing-to-install.html
  1G should be plenty for all tasks selected, and 500M for no tasks selected.

  Either these minimums should be reevaluated and rasised, or we need to
  concerve some space somewhere.

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