Comment 3 for bug 91903

I tried to install Xubuntu 7.04 on a 700 MB partition and that failed too, I increased the size to 1.5 GB (hey, this is Xubuntu, how much does it need?) and still it failed. The real problem from a user point of view is:
   > some program during installation will try to do something to the MBR (probably grub)
   > there is no error message saying there is something wrong, the installation just stops and falls back into the live CD environment
   > so the user happily reboots
   > after reboot the MBR is not showing a menu, it just claims there is no operating system

So no new Xubuntu, and no fallback to the Win98 that was still on the first partition...

I realised the problem after the second install, when inspection of the boot dir showed there was no /boot/grub/menu.list

I did succeed in installing Xubuntu 6.06, because 1#it told me I needed 2 GB, and 2# it even refused to continue until it was really enough (>2,026 MB IIRC)