Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Just my two cents' worth here... I did a semi-manual potato install # recently (i/e/ selecting individual packages from the menu rather that # just the groups) and have ended up with a full mail and # web/SSL/PHP/mod_perl system with quite a few extra od

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > 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 confi

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
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 base

Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread dickson chow
Hello there, i'm a linux newbie :) I have an old box with a IBM/Cyrix 133mhz cpu, 16mb ram, 340mb hd, 28.8 isa modem, soundblaster 16 isa, a diamond stealth 24 video card (also isa), and a NE2K compatible 10mbit pci nic. Here's what i want to do with it. 1. Turn it into a fax/ansering machine.