<quote who="Dave Fitch">
> so I went back and picked "simple".
> The result was too simple!
> I was missing most of what I consider to be a complete
> system.
For example?
My usual advice is to install very little initially, and apt-get as
required. It's easy, straight-forward, and minimal. I'm a BIG fan of
minimal.
> Maybe it's easier if you do a gui install?
> dunno, I've only got a pathetic monitor connected for
> installing it, after that it will run headless.
There ain't no such thing. :)
(Try Progeny or, if you have to, Stormix for a good, perkier version of
Debian.)
> There's a few oddities though, eg. I got exim as a MTA.
> I couldn't work out how to configure it properly (well
> I can't get it going from fiddling with the conf file
> and reading the man page, so I gave up).
The exim config is reasonably good, however it's very badly worded and quite
unclear to new users.
> So I installed postfix instead but can't remove exim without also removing
> leafnode and other stuff I want to keep.
Debian does all the work for you. :) If you apt-get install postfix, Debian
will realise that you're installing another MTA, remove exim, and leave your
other packages (at least the ones relying on the presence of an MTA) on
there.
- Jeff
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