<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, David Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@dchamp.net">dave@dchamp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was thinking "not that big" by modern standards... what's the smallest<br>
HD you can buy these days, like 250gb?<br>
<br>
If you can't install Ubuntu server (I don't know, haven't tried it, but<br>
I suspect you can) with no GUI, you can always install Debian... or any<br>
one of the other distros.<br>
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Stuart Thiessen wrote:<br>
> Perhaps "not that big" is defined by what can fit on a USB stick? :)<br>
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> On May 12, 2009, at 14:23 , chris wrote:<br>
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>> David Champion wrote:<br>
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>>> Even if you do install the GUI, it's not that big. I installed<br>
>>> Kubuntu<br>
>>> 9.04, it takes up a whole 3.5gb for everything, including KDE,<br>
>>> Firefox,<br>
>>> Tbird, Quanta, the LAMP stack, and a few other goodies. You can<br>
>>> change<br>
>>> it to CLI mode by changing the runlevel... or there's probably an<br>
>>> Ubuntu<br>
>>> way to make that happen too.<br>
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>> Oh my. Since when is 3.5gb "not that big"? My Slackware base and<br>
>> OpenSuse base gui-less installs with Apache HTTPD<br>
>> come in < 500MB will all kinds of extras.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I'm not sure about the current version of Ubuntu, but I installed 8.04
LTS server a while back, by taking the defaults at install time, it
did not install X-windows. just had command prompt. I guess its possible I un-checked some stuff on the install wizard, but I usually just blindly click "next" when I'm installing stuff, so I seriously doubt I did anything that strayed from the default options.<br>
<br clear="all">Tim Champion<br><a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br>
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