Desktop to Server setup?

[CyberCowboy]

I've been having trouble getting my IBM server to install the Ubuntu server 8.04 (see thread here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=860325)) Yes I've checked the M5Sum and it's fine on other computers

I can however get the desktop version to install so I'm wondering if theres a meta-package that I'm missing that would convert the desktop to the server install. Preferably with the setup wizard that the cd takes you through.

[f37u5g0d]

Some servers have chips on their motherboard that restrict what they are capable of. I once had a computer that come from my mother's office that had one such chip. We had to take it to 3 different small private computer repair shops until somebody finally was able to remove the chip so that we could install an operating system on the damn thing. (It was 133Mhz pentium I that screamed running windows 98 I believe it had 16 MB of ram).

[CyberCowboy]

Some servers have chips on their motherboard that restrict what they are capable of. I once had a computer that come from my mother's office that had one such chip. We had to take it to 3 different small private computer repair shops until somebody finally was able to remove the chip so that we could install an operating system on the damn thing. (It was 133Mhz pentium I that screamed running windows 98 I believe it had 16 MB of ram).



Thanks for the reply, however, I don't think that's the case as it is presently running Debian on it, so it's not a Microsoft lock in issue. I'm wondering if there isn't something in the way the Server CD was compiled that the Desktop CD is missing (or vice-verse)

Is there a bare-minimum install CD like debian has that you can choose weather it's a desktop or server (and if server which apps)? that may solve my problems as well.