cool these are great starting points !!! I will start reading...............
....To be continued.:) On 01/05/2008, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Javad Ayaz wrote: > > Sorry to be a pain...i know its been explained to me already...but im > > not really a techie and im only starting out with buntu. :) > > It's great to have new people who are enthusiastic about Ubuntu. You > might want to hold back from replying to each and every post, though, > until you have read through the suggestions and spent a few hours trying > them out ;-) > > > i use Ktorrent. Whats the best nslu2 to go for? from where? Im currently > > I think you're fundamentally not understanding what an NSLU2 is. > > An NSLU2 is a very small type of "headless" server. "Headless" means > that it runs WITHOUT a monitor. There is no desktop, and usually no > keyboard nor mouse either. > > So you can't run Ktorrent, because there is nothing to display it on [1]. > > An NSLU2 has a Cat5 ethernet socket, for the network, and two USB > sockets, typically used for external hard disk drives. And that's it. > It's about the size of two CD cases. No VGA socket, so there is nowhere > to connect a monitor to. > > So that begs the question... how do you use it, if there's no monitor, > no mouse and no keyboard? > > The answer is, you connect to it from ANOTHER computer over the network, > using either a web browser or the command line (the "command line" is > also known as the "terminal", the "CLI command line interpreter", the > "shell" or "ssh" [2]). You can access the command line in Ubuntu from > the Applications menu - Accessories - Terminal. > > The web browser connection is fine if all you want to do is share an > external USB drive over the network, but you won't be able to run > torrents from the web browser. > > If you want to run torrents, you'll need install Debian Linux on it, > which can only be done from the command line. > > What you want to do is pretty advanced (downloading torrents from an > NSLU2). What I'd recommend is to learn to walk before you try to run. > You will need to get used to using the command line first. You can > practice using the command line on your existing Ubuntu machine. So, > spend a couple of days learning how to use the command line: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=73885 > > Next, install GNU Screen, so that programs you run on the command line > can continue to work even when you close the terminal window: > > sudo apt-get install screen > > Learn how to use GNU Screen here: > > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 > > Then try installing and using a web browser and a bittorrent client that > you can use entirely and soley from the command line: > > sudo apt-get install bittorrent > sudo apt-get install elinks > > For example, you could use these tools to download the Hardy install CD: > > screen > > elinks > "http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent"; > > btdownloadheadless.py "ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent" > > You can practice this on your existing Ubuntu desktop machine using the > Terminal, before you buy an NSLU2. > > [1] Not strictly true - you could run a remote desktop using X-server or > KDE over VNC. But that's WAY too advanced for today, and very difficult > to achieve on an NSLU2. > > [2] There are technical differences between a terminal, a command line, > a shell and an SSH session. Again, WAY too advanced for today. > > -- > Andrew Oakley > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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