Debian on old SPARC
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. Thanks for any suggestions, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 pgpdtqXXryUq9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian on old SPARC
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. I have slink installed on a sparc 1 right now and only 200 meg hd. It is taking less than half of that and acts as a dial-up/masq server. Setting up an Xserver would be trivial and not take up much more space. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Core - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Re: Debian on old SPARC
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
