I wanted to install Lubuntu 12.10 to a 4GB USB flash drive, but the 12.10 installer refuses to work if the disk size is less than 4.4GB. That's a problem because Lubuntu would actually install fine on a 4GB USB drive, especially if the user chooses to not create a swap partition. But the installer doesn't let the user get past the "I won't install on a <4.4GB disk" stage.
It's perfectly feasible to install Lubuntu to a 4GB flash drive; there would about 2GB free space after installation with no swap partition. Some suggestions: - Reduce the minimum allowable disk size and make it a recommendation, not mandatory. - When working out whether the drive is large enough for Lubuntu to be installed, take into account the size of any swap partition. Perhaps show a warning dialog if the user proceeds with a small drive, but don't prevent installation completely. Here are some space-used figures after I installed Lubuntu 12.10 to a 4.4GB VirtualBox VM: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 3766504 1911200 1663972 54% / Device Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 7655423 3826688 83 Linux /dev/sda2 7657470 9226239 784385 5 Extended /dev/sda5 7657472 9226239 784384 82 Linux swap / Solaris Note the swap size! With no swap partition there would be almost 2.5GB of free space. There would therefore be over 2GB of free space after installing to a 4GB USB stick/memory card, if the installer allowed it. That's plenty for light usage. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775124 Title: Ubiquity should have a command line option to override the free space check To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/775124/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
