To quote dickson chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1. How can i install debian at its bare minimum? (HD space is only # 340mb. sorry if this is a dumb question. i'm new to linux and the linux # structure is totally alien to me. i'm trying very hard to learn it # though :)
What I would do is extract base2_2.tgz (the base Debian system) to the target Debian root partition. I'd set up LILO, make it bootable and whatnot. There, now you're got the most minimum Debian system available(I think, anyways :)... It's pretty small, the tarball is only 15M. Do get walked through the configuration, 'dpkg-reconfigure base-config'. That should run pretty much everything you'd get during a normal installation routine. After that point, 'apt-get install' very very few packages. Only the ones you absolutely need. I'm not sure if it's possible to 'apt-get remove' anything that was in base2_2.tgz; I think all those packages are marked "essential" and hence can't(or shouldn't, anyways ;) be removed. # 2. is it possible to get mgetty to fax out a document recieved from # another computer on a lan (ie. from a windowz computer)? I believe there are some Win32 clients around ... or I might be thinking of Hylafax. I'm not sure ... anyways, check http://www.freshmeat.net , it's a great place. You could also check http://www.appwatch.com , but I don't think the latter has any more software listed than the former. # 3. is it possible to get mgetty to email me the voice messages and # faxes? or at least notify me by email that i have new voice messages and # faxes? i'm guessing i need to write a complex script for that? Yes. But I'm not sure if the script would be terribly complex. 'apt-get install mgetty-docs' on a computer that has a wee bit more hard drive space, then poke around. I don't think it's all that difficult, from what I've read in the docs. # 4. maybe check faxes and voices messages using a web browser? that way i # can check my messages when i'm out of time or something hehe. That'd be more complex; you'd probably have to write a web front-end ... and you'd also have to install some sort of webserver :( At 340M, you're already going to be limited to how many voice messages you can store with only the base Debian config; adding big stuff like a webserver might make matters worse. # 5. would it be easier to compile my own kernel and get all this to work? Compiling your own kernel and getting the goals you've set forth accomplished have rather little to do with one another :) Anyways, you *are* going to have to work a fair bit to get this to work, there's no "mgetty-voice-fax-web-frontends-with-emailing-scripts-and-magic-wand" package :) David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
