Hoary on a smallish laptop

[Arnold Maestre]

I got my hands on an old laptop (a Fujitsu LifeBook C332, if that matters) 
that I'd like to use as a terminal for my daughters to play with. So I 
whipped out my trusty Hoary Install CD (TM), and gave it a shot: the laptop 
has 32 MB of Ram, 3-something GB of RAM and a Celeron (?) 266, so it seems 
to meet the bare minimum.

The installation process starts, I choose a minimal install (server), in 
order to install just the base packages and then work some X magic through 
LTSP or something like that (I think I read something about ubuntu scripts 
for LTSP setups). The installer warns me that I'm short on memory (Ok, I 
knew that) and proceeds in english (well, so be it). I choose my keyboard 
layout, detect and mount the cd-rom, load the preseed file, and then proceed 
with installer components. But when retrieving 
nic-extra-modules-2.6.10-5-386-di, the debian installer exits and brings me 
back to the main menu (in expert mode) or just loops forever (in normal 
mode). From there, I'm pretty much busted.

Is there a magic solution that would help me continue further ? May I select 
a smaller subset in order to bypass this pit trap ? Or shall I give up 
Ubuntu entirely and try something else (in which case, what should I try) ?

-- 
Arnold
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