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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #48355
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 48355

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RichardNeill (ubuntu-richardneill) wrote : Re: partitioner should warn about too small disk while autopartitioning (some_device)

The installer shouldn't just warn you that it will fail, it should give you some option to *do something* about it!
For example, an option to install just ubuntu-minimal + X + gnome/kde-base.

Another problem: the installer doesn't delete cached debs from /var/cache/apt/archives. This means that about 700MB of space is wasted, which can make all the difference. See bug #90606 for this.

Incidentally, I have a very good ubuntu install on a 1GB compact-flash card, running KDE + Amarok. But I had to manually install ubuntu-server, then add xorg, and then kde-base + kdm; always running apt-get clean in between installing packages.