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    Do you wear sandals and have a big bushy beard, TerminalAddict?
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    Debian Woody is the old version. Debian Sarge is the current version.

    Ubuntu as a server install is the way to go, I reckon.

    I can lend you a USB cdrom drive to boot the install cdrom off to install it. Or you can hang a regular cdrom drive off it during the install and them remove it later.

    Oh, this computer is going to have a hard drive in it, isn't it?

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    Woody is, but it has some neat limited install options. Never implemented a Sarge install, so I wouldn't know.

    I don't have Sandals and you should grow your bug catcher back LBTW.
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    I like the fact that with ubuntu I can install stuff that is less than 12 million years old

    debian annoys me the way it hold things for ever before putting them in stable

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajturbo View Post
    what i realy want to know is.... why wont MY puter START????

    the lights are on but no-one home!!!... bit like the owner...
    ID ten T error probably

    Does anything come up on the screen, does it beep or make any funny noises,smoke etc. A bit hard to diagnosis it from what you've described.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TerminalAddict View Post
    I like the fact that with ubuntu I can install stuff that is less than 12 million years old

    debian annoys me the way it hold things for ever before putting them in stable
    Yeah same but in my case I prefere something a bit more bleeding edge and run gentoo

    Another cool contraption I have is my wireless router running Openwrt linux. I can ssh into it and install more software etc. Very cool. I have yet to use the USB ports on it though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dhunt View Post
    Another cool contraption I have is my wireless router running Openwrt linux. I can ssh into it and install more software etc. Very cool. I have yet to use the USB ports on it though.
    This is a WRT54G? Was looking into doing one of these hacks but from what I can see I cant hook an IDE drive up to it.

    Jim2 - I'm no expert. I'm not an expert at anything...I usually know enough to get myself interested about something and then lose interest before becoming an authority.

    TermAd - Thats just scary looking man. I kinda know what it is but a tiny bit beyond me at the moment

    LBTW - Hmmm...I have a couple of power supply issues with running a CD-ROM drive at the moment. Tried booting off an UBUNTU CD a while back but it wanted to go all pretty and my board/CPU couldn't handle it very well. As I understand it the latest distro allows you to do a text-based install.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skelstar View Post
    This is a WRT54G? Was looking into doing one of these hacks but from what I can see I cant hook an IDE drive up to it.
    I was looking at those but ended up with a ASUS WL-500g deluxe as it had more RAM,faster and had USB 2 ports So it ment I could at some stage hook up a USB 2 Hard drive or USB speakers etc. Lots of potential but I just haven't been bothered or needed to yet. Only thing I've done was getting rid of the asus branded linux and put openwrt on it.

    Quote Originally Posted by skelstar View Post
    LBTW - Hmmm...I have a couple of power supply issues with running a CD-ROM drive at the moment. Tried booting off an UBUNTU CD a while back but it wanted to go all pretty and my board/CPU couldn't handle it very well. As I understand it the latest distro allows you to do a text-based install.
    You could always pull your hard disk and put it in another computer, do the install of what ever and move it back. Works quite well and would be easier/faster for you it sounds like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dhunt View Post
    I was looking at those but ended up with a ASUS WL-500g deluxe as it had more RAM,faster and had USB 2 ports So it ment I could at some stage hook up a USB 2 Hard drive or USB speakers etc. Lots of potential but I just haven't been bothered or needed to yet. Only thing I've done was getting rid of the asus branded linux and put openwrt on it.
    Cool. Would do that maybe but in reality it means I would still have to get a USB-HDD enclosure again for the USB adapter part.

    Ouch ASUS WL-500G costs $170

    Stupid thing is that a NAS enclosure only costs $110. Vantec I think.


    You could always pull your hard disk and put it in another computer, do the install of what ever and move it back. Works quite well and would be easier/faster for you it sounds like.
    True. Hardware detect not needed at install eh? Should be able to install onto a flash drive and just move it over?

    I also want the distro to run of the flash drive, but for it to avoid writing to it too much either....hence maybe avoiding Deb/Ubuntu full blown types. Maybe DSL is more quiet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skelstar View Post
    True. Hardware detect not needed at install eh? Should be able to install onto a flash drive and just move it over?

    I also want the distro to run of the flash drive, but for it to avoid writing to it too much either....hence maybe avoiding Deb/Ubuntu full blown types. Maybe DSL is more quiet.
    Yip Linux doesn't pack a sad unlike windoze if you move to some new hardware.

    You could run all your programs from a compressed ROM filesystem and then just the stuff you need to write from a R/W filesystem. That's how my wireless router does it.

    I guess it depends how much time you want to spend and how much you want to learn to do an install. That's what I like about linux is theres so many ways to do things so I can do it my way.
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    Yeah, that sounds good. I don't mind having a bit of a play. I got frustrated in the past with distros like Fedora when I was trying to get it to play AAC codec music, but Im thinking that this isn't near as tricky .

    Cheers for the help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skelstar View Post
    LBTW - Hmmm...I have a couple of power supply issues with running a CD-ROM drive at the moment. Tried booting off an UBUNTU CD a while back but it wanted to go all pretty and my board/CPU couldn't handle it very well. As I understand it the latest distro allows you to do a text-based install.
    Yep. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long term support) Server doesn't even ask if you want a gui, it assumes a big fat 'no'. Which is the way it should be. Damnit.

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    Yeah just reading about Ubuntu Server now. Might be the way to go. As I undertsand it downloading modules (?) is pretty damn easy.

    Know of any text based bit torrent clients?
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    rtorrent - ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent

    this from ubuntu server (with no gui )

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