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 ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --