Minimal server installation

This is what the ubuntu-minimal images are for. ~15MB of lean, mean Ubuntu. But if you're anything like me, you'll likely just end up installing it all back. Quite a few things require ubuntu-standard which layers on most of what the server disk installs.

You can read more about ubuntu-minimal and download it from the official help page.

Edit: Okay I've just done a minimal install. It does download extra packages as part of the installation and it's more that it really needs to run a base system.

The output of du -sh / is 632MB. It's a bit heftier than the previously advertised 15MB but it does install ubuntu-standard which I'm sure there is some way of avoiding. I've experienced it first hand because one of my server companies offers bare-minimal Ubuntu installs without ubuntu-standard.

I'll keep looking.