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Richlife

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mucking around

« on: March 29, 2008, 02:03:48 PM »

hey everyone,
i've got an old celeron 533 gathering dust, and was wondering if i could turn it into a server? (i'm bored...)

i think its got 320Mb ram, 8GB hard drive, and a 100Mbps network card.

how would i go about making it a server? do i need a particular operating system?

if it helps, the current hardware in the house is this:
sattelite broadband modem, printer, and 3 computers (2 XP, and 1 vista) connected to an 8port switch.


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Re: mucking around

« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2008, 07:44:02 PM »

Yeah you could run a distro of Linux on it and turn it into a file server.. Maybe spend $50 on a new hard drive and you would have more than enough hardware to run a fairly decent file server. You would also be able to added the network drive to all of your PCs.


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