Minimum disk space requirements?

[azz]

The minimum disk space is supposed to be 1.8 gigs.  That is probably not
including a filesystem (takes up about 5 percent or more of disk space),
swap and downloaded packages.

I filed this bug:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2757

You can get around with much less.

Typing custom at the boot prompt will stop after a base system install
(350 megs).  Not much else than a basic Debian linux system.  You can
add X, a window manager and a web browser ans still be under 600 megs. 
You would however need to get packages from outside of Main, since the
only window manager available to the Ubuntu Desktop is gnome.  (I got
icewm from universe)

If you do a custom install and then run aptitude from the command line,
you could select ubuntu-desktop which depends on the most of the
enchilada.  You can then select things like Openoffice (or unselect
then...) and other big packages to free up space.  Then make it go.  It
will install them from your cd.

Just replacing the openoffice packages with abiword will allow you to
install on a 1.3 gig harddrive.

The default install includes copying files to your hard drive for
faster installation at a later time.  The custom install does not do
this, so you have more free disk space.

When the ubuntu-desktop package gets configured (after it is unpacked)
it frees up the downloaded packages that have been installed.


Also, you need at least 32 megs of memory to install since the
installer runs from a ramdisk.


-- 
azz