Ubuntu in the News: Test of distributions for an old laptop

[Andreas Schildbach]

Lee Revell wrote:

>>He was unable to install it because he created a partition which was
>>(slightly) smaller than the minimum requirements, then gave up when it ran
>>out of space.
> 
> 1. He was not able to find any documentation of the minimum requirements
> 
> 2. Isn't it a bug that the installer fails to check available space?

This has been filed 9 months ago:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/21719

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/partman-basicfilesystems/+bug/21551

Regards,

Andreas