<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Vincent, I appreciate the reply and did send the question (twice) to Xubuntu team last week. I have decades of IT experience and fascinated in Ubuntu distribution (I'm an old RedHat user). I want to contribute and have started a test scenario (see list of machines tested below). You are the first to contact me! In testing, I may have answered my own questions! * Toshiba A105 laptop: I ordered an additional 1GB ram and installed Ubuntu 8.04 [i386], with a 3G swap partition and 7+G left for root etal. All seems well except sound from FireFox and I don't seem to have driver for Windows/Dell network printer. It gets there, acts like it's printing but nada! * AMD3100: This XP machine has 110 GB of 160GB drive available, 8.04 tested well and I am defragging now. Do you have a process for XP Drive "shrinkage"? The Vista procedure worked well. I look forward to hearing from you or other team members. Regards, Bob Vincent wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:749ebd440805070248k4bb1ca5ap3faa7899a4263ad6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div>On 5/6/08, Bob Gotthardt <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:bobgott@ptd.net">bobgott@ptd.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I'm a new, fascinated user testing Xubuntu 8.04 on an underpowered Toshiba Satellite laptop. Unfortunately for dual-boot, I could only retrieve a 10G partition from this 80G Vista drive [MFT near 64G mark prevents further shrinkage w/o too much 3rd party]. Ubuntu 7.14 and 8.04 have tested well also. 'Hardware Report' was sent and I joined Launchpad and Xubuntu Users as <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dell@gotthardt.net">dell@gotthardt.net</a>. How do you feel I will fare installing Xubuntu 8.04 in this 10G partition?</blockquote> <div> Xubuntu should fit on a 10GB partition - I believe it takes up about 1,5 GB after a standard installation. However, you'll have very little space left for your personal documents, settings and additional applications you're going to install (i.e. 8,5 GB), which may be even less if I'm mistaken and Xubuntu takes up more than 1,5 GB. By the way, this question might be more appropriate for the xubuntu-users mailinglist: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do you have any suggestions? Do you recommend otherwise, what about another release or full Ubuntu (tested well)? This is a personal use machine with no special applications [I need alternative to Vista] and I'll share any experiences with you. Additional testing conducted on AMD3100 (1GB), Vostro 200 (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:E2180@2.00GHz">E2180@2.00GHz</a>, 2GB), hp8670c (P3/800MHz, 196MB), and xl759 (P3/800MHz, 256MB) on Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04. I want to join the team and share any information I may have. This Toshiba has only 512MB, but that can be increased and I can add another disk for Ubuntu use. Any comments and help appreciated. Thanks, Bob Gotthardt <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.Gotthardt.Net">www.Gotthardt.Net</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Vincent </blockquote> </body> </html>