A good guide for setting up a minimal ubuntu install is found there: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal But with 64 mb of ram I think X will be out, MySQL to... I've had problems starting that in 128mb. But there are lighter applications out there like sqlite, lighttpd, nano-x. I've seen nano-x run in 36mb: http://dslinux.org/wiki/Nano-X Peter