Re: [LUG] Best linux distro for home file server

[Jay Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI, 

A stock debian 6 (Long term support version) distro should fit your needs https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/

...., when installing use the installer to create a software volume  (LVM)  with the 2nd and 3rd disks and use the 1st for the OS and everything else (dont segment, just use the full volumn). 

use ext3 for the first drive and ext4 for LVM volumn. 

Then just set up a simple CIFS (samba) file share. 

There are lots of details online to set this up : see http://www.tldp.org   

http://debian-handbook.info   // while this refers to Debian 7 99% will be the same for 6 where samba is concerned. 

also Debian is "standard issue" and a good grounding in using linux for something serious.

 

Ps. when installing, chose core, ssh and file server, ignore desktop you'r wasting resources installing anything else, use ssh (putty = ssh client for windows) i 

Only at the shell you can selective install packages with apt-get     // ie a minimal X environment and window managed (i.e. wmaker) if you really want a very light desktop.

 

On 25 Apr 2015, at 22:43, damian brown <jvc260w@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

my gaming rig has been a constant upgrade for the past 4 years i have had it.

when i first built it, its specs was

amd athlon II x4 640 @ 3GHz (200x15)

4GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9

1TB Hitachi 5200RPM 8MB cache SATA II 

Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB

onboard sound

and in that setup it had ran loads of os's (win8 beta, win8.1 beta, win 10, win 7, ubuntu, openSUSE and because i can it was even a hackintosh)

now its specs are

amd athlon II x4 640 @ 3.50GHz (240x14)

5GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9

1TB Hitachi 5200RPM 8MB cache SATA II 

Nvidia GTX460 1GB

Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtreamGamer

but now after trying to play gta v it turns out im going to need a new cpu and even more ram just to be able to play it


considering the hardware for the server i thought linux would be the best choice since its lightweight and still has support for older hardware

On 25 April 2015 at 21:01, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 25/04/15 20:22, damian brown wrote:
> no thats fine, i recently went though my boxes and found a bunch of
> hardware to make another low spec pc, but since i have a decent gaming
> rig (athlon II x4 640, 5GB DDR3 ram, gtx460 1TB HDD.i would have no use
> for the pc, then i had an idea, why not turn the pc into a file server
> so me and my friends can store there files on there as a backup.
>
> IDE yeah, i had two lying around and my mate just give me his other 80GB
> ide one
>
> so i have a
>
> 80GB WD Black IDE
> 80GB some Maxtor
> 80GB Hitachi CinemaStar


5Gb of RAM? That's a let's just say strange amount of RAM for any
system... I don't doubt you, but it's obvious you are cobbling together
your systems with whatever you can get your hands on. Nothing wrong with
that btw. I'm going to guess you are relatively young and inexperienced
judging by your post contents (also definitely nothing wrong with that
either).

You're in luck: three identically sized disks is just what you need to
experiment with RAID5/ReFS/ZFS etc: what you're going to want to do is
install your base OS to a CF/SD card, USB stick or whatever so you can
use your three disks purely as a storage repository. You have physical
redundancy for a grand total of 160Gb total RAIDed storage if you go the
traditional RAID5 route, probably via Linux softraid.

Turning your abandoned hardware into a working, useful
not-powered-by-windows something or other is the best idea ever, and
literally how I learnt to use Linux, BSD, Plan9 and a bunch of other
stuff hands on - crack on with experimenting chief, you won't regret it.
If nothing else you'll learn lots in the process, which can never be a
bad thing.

Good luck.

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