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killerturtle

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Registered: 2010-11-12

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Arch suitable as a very basic fileserver homeuse and downloadmachine

I've got a second hand eee 901.
Was thinking of turning this funny little laptop into a dedicated fileserver for homeuse.

Would Arch be suitable enough, or should i look at Debian, Ubuntu server?

The plan:
- install some Linux distro on the 901
- hook up two external usb hd's
- make it serve files to :
    - LG DP1W (media player in the living room)
    - If possible --> be backup disk for timemachine on the Imac

Is it possible to use hdparm for spindown the external usb disks?

Thanks for the tips!

Gr Sven

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ryuslash

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Re: Arch suitable as a very basic fileserver homeuse and downloadmachine

Well, this is pretty much what I'm doing with it on one of my PCs at home.

I have it running uShare to share media with my TV, phone, PCs and playstation. I also have rtorrent running on it.

It works well, no idea how the PC itself likes it

killerturtle

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Registered: 2010-11-12

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Re: Arch suitable as a very basic fileserver homeuse and downloadmachine

Can i install that from the normal repository's?

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ryuslash

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Re: Arch suitable as a very basic fileserver homeuse and downloadmachine

yes, it's easy to set up too.

I also use samba to share files more conventionally, I looked at NFS but I couldn't get it to work back then.

AlexS

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Registered: 2009-05-16

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Re: Arch suitable as a very basic fileserver homeuse and downloadmachine

I also use an old laptop connected to a large drive for the same purposes. I use rtorrent and sshfs, and that's mostly it.