Fax server distro or pre-built ISO

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited March 2006 in Science & Tech
Is there a pre-built ISO of something that can be easily configured and installed as a fax server?

I'm looking for something like a "smoothwall" for fax serving. Pop in the disk, install, configure via web interface, and go from there.

Any ideas? :)

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited March 2006
    primesuspect wrote:
    Is there a pre-built ISO of something that can be easily configured and installed as a fax server?

    I'm looking for something like a "smoothwall" for fax serving. Pop in the disk, install, configure via web interface, and go from there.

    Any ideas? :)
    There's a GNU software package called Hylafax that does what you want and has clients for many OSes, but I'm in the process of finding LiveCD distros that include it.

    I assume you're looking for a LiveCD distro? A LiveCD is an OS on a CD that you just drop in and boot up from. The disadvantage is you have to save your configuration files to a floppy or some other media because everything goes away on reboot. If you're really setting up a server I'd go ahead and stick a hard disk in.

    Gentoo has Hylafax keyworded for these architectures:
    x86 sparc hppa alpha amd64 ppc
    If you've got any of these, you can install Gentoo and Hylafax together (which is what I'd do). Gentoo doesn't take long to install these days since Stage3 is now the recommended installation procedure (very few initial compiles required).

    -drasnor :fold:
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