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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


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