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.
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