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Fogmeister
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I've been trying to price up a cheap PC to use Linux on as a router/server. So far the cheapest I can get (only been looking at Scan) for a reasonable setup is around £175 quid. - 1GB Corsair XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18
- Asus TM-B11 Black Micro ATX Tower Case No PSU
- Biostar G31-M7-TE, Intel G31, Sok 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA 3Gb/s, Micro ATX, VGA
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core, E5300, S775, Wolfdale, 2.6 GHz, 2MB Cache, 13x Core Ratio, 65W, Retail
- 350w Be Quiet BN134 SFX microATX PSU
- with a CF card from Amazon.
- Sweex LC001 PCI 10/100 Network Card VIA Chipset
I could reduce the memory to 512 or slower speed. I could also go for a Celeron instead of the Pentium. If you were to buy new what sort of stuff would you go for?
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forquare1
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I built a small PC for just over £100. I bought all the bits from eBay  Single core Atom board (built in graphics and ethernet) Mini-itx case with power supply 2GB RAM I had lying around 80GB HDD If an Atom board will do you, might be good to go that way as it may keep the costs down (both of the components and power usage?) EDIT: I'm quite happily running OpenSolaris on mine, though it's built for higher spec computers. I've no doubt some linux distro would run comfortably on that.
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saspro
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I'm just finishing my itx server build. The Atom 330 isn't actually too bad, it even runs exchange.
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rustybucket
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Fogmeister
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TBH I mainly want to use it as a firewall router for my house. Prob with a wireless card in for wifi access (or something). In terms of serving probably not much/nothing at all but possibly a file server at some point in the future.
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rustybucket
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I had a SmoothWall firewall running on a AMD K6-2 @ 250Mhz with 96MB of PC100 RAM. You could run that on a very low powered system as it uses a Web interface. [Edit] Just checked min reqs: If you want to make a file server, you could use ClarkConnect 5.0 but I've not tried it so I can't tell you what it's like _________________Jim
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Fogmeister
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Thanks for the info.
TBH I could probably run it on a Nokia 3310 but the problem is getting hold of low power/spec processors.
The price I put together was going from the cheapest stuff available on Scan.
Are there any computer supplies that will supply older/slower/mobile CPUs, mobos, etc...?
Thanks!
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rustybucket
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Fogmeister
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Even better  I remembered I had my old gaming PC in the garage at my grandma's house. It's been there for around 2 years and never used so I've stripped it of all the non-essentials to try out Smoothwall on
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Fogmeister
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Woohoo!
It's installing now! One thing though, I'm gonna def have to get a new case and a quieter PSU.
And poss a quieter HSF for my CPU. I can't imagine much cooling is called for.
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Coref
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I've never used them, but take a look at http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
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Fogmeister
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Damn, been trying to install it but I keep getting the error "Unable to calculate module dependencies" in the install process.
I've tried 2 different CDs and 2 different CD drives.
Just going to swap out the HDD and try again.
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Fogmeister
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OK, got past that bit by putting the HDD as single master on IDE 1 and then the CD on IDE 2.
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Fogmeister
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Damn! So close!
I now get an error "Unable to make root filesystem".
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Fogmeister
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Woohoo! I switched to using the 32bit version instead of the 63bit and it's working now. Well, it's past the bit it was sticking on.
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