I updated my old Gentoo server to Ubuntu on Monday. I haven't finished the conversion totally yet, but I'm getting there!

My existing server was setup Gentoo with the following disk setup

/dev/sda1 50mb boot partition with ext2

/dev/sda2 512mb swap

/dev/sda3 250gb / with ext3 (about 60% full)

So I booted up on Gparted Clonezilla to shrink sda3 and create a new 20gb partition for Ubuntu. With Gparted its so easy! Once I had the new partition I installed Ubuntu 7.04 Server. The install process is... passable. It was fast, but having to manually choose the drive for grub to install its MBR to (especially when there is only one drive in the server) was a little surprising. I imagine that a first time user of the server install might have a difficult time knowing what to enter unless they have hacked around with Grub's menu.lst file before and understand what (h0,0) means.