the view from here

[John]

vivek wrote:

>also, i'll be installing it alongside mandrake as well. i have four
>partitions, and the one i can spare is of 1 GB. i plan to remove
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That will be an extreme challenge.

>mandrake and use ubuntu full time if it suits the requirements. will it
>get installed in 1 GB, just for the initial testing?
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the default install is somewhat larger. I've not explored options to 
leave stuff out (it's not my way).

You can install in 2 Gb, but I wouldn't recommend it.