On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 05:29:47PM -0700, Max wrote: > We have a few old SPARCstations (1 and 1+) around here that I'd like > to convert to Debian and essentially use them as glorified X > terminals. The major problem is that each one only has 127 MB of hard > drive space. So, is it possible to install some minimum version of > Debian that would include all the networking stuff and X on such a > small amount of disk space? The machines would then be used to run X > that would allow users to ssh to a server for all real work.
Yes, quite. I just did it recently on a sparcstation IPC. (100MB Hard drive). If you like, I could send you a package list, but just knowing it's possible with some very careful selections of packages is probably enough. (ie no emacs, no gcc, etc.). HTH. -Dano