diff -Nur ubiquity-1.6.8.dist/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py ubiquity-1.6.8/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py
--- ubiquity-1.6.8.dist/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py	2007-10-15 15:30:55.000000000 -0400
+++ ubiquity-1.6.8/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py	2007-12-13 15:13:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -123,6 +123,22 @@
                 if isinstance(widget, gtk.Label):
                     widget.set_property('can-focus', False)
 
+                # fix for:
+                # "Ubiquity dialogues too large for 800x600 display"
+                # https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/38442 
+                # If the screen res is 800x600 or 832x624,
+                # go into fullscreen so that the Next button doesn't get hidden
+                # under the lower launcher bar.
+                # for 640x480 and 768x576, fullcreen doesn't work, so
+                # leave it windowed, which also won't work, but may be
+                # more apparent.
+                if isinstance(widget, gtk.Window) and \
+                     576 < gtk.gdk.screen_get_default().get_height() <= 624:
+                         widget.fullscreen()
+
+
+                     
+
         BaseFrontend.__init__(self, distro)
 
         self.previous_excepthook = sys.excepthook