[comp.sys.hp] Make HP-UX small

bob@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Lanfranco Albani) (12/21/90)

Hi netpeople!

We have 5 new HP 9000/400t's, with internal 200-Mbyte SCSI disks.
These machines came with HP-UX 7.03 preloaded and installed with
Istant Ignition.

Everything runs really fine, and VUE is truly gorgeous, particularly
with the 19" color monitor.  However, LOTS of disk space is consumed:
the systems as turned on the first time only have 5 Mbytes free!
Erasing some demos gains a further 10 megs, and careful pruning
(including, alas, the man pages) another 20, but it's still too
restrictive.  We tried following an HP note to get a "minimally loaded
disk", but *that* procedure throws away far too much, indeed the
machines won't boot any more after that is done!

Is there anyone around the world that has managed to throw away
"enough but not too much", so as to leave *AT LEAST* 60 megs of the
200 free for user programs and data?  We could do without VUE, and
keep working with X11 and Motif (pity, since VUE appears to have
good potential for productivity enhancement with its virtual-desktop
like 'workspaces') - deinstalling JUST VUE does NOT appear to be
a trivial task, however, as files listed in its "fileset" seem to
be used by *other* subsystems as well...

Thanks in advance.

Lanfranco

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