Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Jon read the hole thread please, he is saying only the installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. I should admit that I haven't use the cd installer since I have a bootable usb stick, or live cd #> debootstrap and smile I was thinking it could be the size but it's not. His boot partition is big enough to install tiny debian on it, so ext3 should be absolutely ok. regards