Hey all! New here in forums although i was reading Bit-Tech for over 1.5 years! I have a question for the gurus out there. I have the following: The wd250GB will change with a wd10eads. The question is: What os should i use for just dl/ul stuff. Nothing else. What i do at the moment in my main pc. I have a folder where i put the torrents -->utorrent picks them---->downloads them--->transfers them to my temporary fileserver---->continues seeding. That's what i want the torrentbox do.Nothing else! Any suggestions? I am noob concerning linux. I remeber having istalled once but it consumed 20gb of disc space,so too much waste stuff! Thanks a lot in advance! Aaaaaaaaand WELCOME ME!
Thanks for your reply! I downloaded and installed debian and it ended up consuming 20gbs. It had open office and 20 games! I might have downloaded the wrong version or whatever. Linux noob!
Glider was probably talking about a nofrills command line install of debian. You probably installed the full blown install with all the everything turned on and a gui.
The iso i downloaded was 180mb!It was the netist iso. I don't knwo why it turned out to be 20gb of installation! Where do you found the 350mb installed? Could you please point to me a link and what to download? I don't want to have 20gb of crap (games/openoffice etc) OS + torrent!
At the end of the install sequence when it asks you to select your machines usage type don't pick one just hit ok that will leave you with a very basic install and when you reboot will leave you at the bash log in from there use aptitude to install what you want. I know that seems a bit vague i'm trying to dig up better instructions. these look ok. Except pick minimal package selection instead of mail server etc. http://linux.justinhartman.com/Installing_a_Debian_Etch_base_system
Thanks a lot for your reply! It's a pretty good guide! I found sth about freeBSD. What do you think? My big concern was when i had linux that i had to search 1.5 hours in order to find out how to install *.rpm packages to debian! I found alien and was trying to make that work. For someone that doesn't know the commands it's pretty rough. How am i going to make a shared folder available at my windows based machine so i can place there *.torrent files and (rtorrent i presume) takes them and downloads them? I assume that i need samba but if i don't know the basic commands how am i going to do sth more complex?
I am using a older motherboard (using DG201GLY2A) for torrents. I use fedora 8 (minimal install), torrentflux-b4rt. I did a few customization in configurations to make it headless. Been working without a issue for last 6 months. A few customizations I did were Webmin for headless admin. samba so I can share directly from the box (as it acts as a NAS). Few etc changes for unclean shutdowns few power saving customizations (using powertop).
What is it your trying to install from .rpm. These are RedHat packages you need a .deb for a debian based machine you're making live difficult for your self At the prompt type aptitude and browse the package list this is a fairly comprehensive list of the packages available for debian and saves a lot of effort on google. Use the "/" to search aptitude, be warned however the names don't always make much sense.
I was trying to install APC Powerchute for my psu and it only comes as an .rpm package. I made it although to install it with alien, but it never worked. What about freeBSD?
I was going to set up a seedbox but then I bought a rapidshare account instead, much less hassle and also due to the files not being torrents, service providers can't block or limit the connections.
