Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Thu Aug 29 2019 07:12:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>>> This system is a server so I don't plan to run GUI on it.
> 
>> Ah. So how do you set it up? I have this PowerEdge that fell on my head
>> that I think will become a headless server, mainly for backups but maybe
>> for media. Still open to suggestion for what OS to install (it came naked).
> 
> Well, you can run the GUI installer (I use a text one, looks like a DOS
> program with a lightbar) but tell it not to install the x server.  So I set

It has enough horsepower (dual Xeon, 64GB RAM) that having the GUI ready 
to hand is probably better than not, in case one day it declines to be 
spoken to via remote. And if it ends up with some linux installed, 
commandline mode is just too opaque for me.

> it up that way.  As for future maintenance, I either use a command line
> program/script, or I use the webmin server I have installed.  I have it set

What webmin do you use? That was Novell's big claim to fame after they 
stupidly dumped Netware for SuSE, making themselves no longer unique in 
the market... web admin was the one thing they did WAY better than 
anyone else. Of course that was 15 years ago!

Speaking therewhich, I do have late-model Netware here somewhere...

> up to allow one other machine on my network (that does have GUI) to be able
> to access it via a web browser.  It allows me to configure various things,
> including making changes to the nsf file server.

nsf file server??

See, there's why it'll probably get some all-in-one server OS, not a 
piecemeal setup!
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