I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes We could however, just to be sure, check the partitions with fdisk. The one we are looking for is listed as /dev/sdb1 (the only one with file system NTFS). ![]() Open a bash and enter the following comand:Ī list with available drives should now show: It should now be mounted and visible as an icon on the desktop. Power up the netbook and attach the hard disk. The hard disk however doesn't have enough room for downloads and to solve this problem an external hard disk should be attached permanently.Ī netbook with a Linux (Mint) installation, XFCE desktop environment.Īn external hard disk, formatted as NTFS.Īn externally powered USB HUB to connect the two devices.ġ: connect the hard disk and make it automatically mounting with system boot.ġ.1: Connect the hard disk to the Linux netbook. One of the first things to do is install a light weight Linux on it and since I have good results with Linux Mint XFCE on other 'old' systems, and both the hard disk size and installed memory should be sufficient to run it with this Linux. It originally came with a Windows XP installation, which is no longer supported by MS nor is it workable because the netbook turned into a really slow machine. The included hard disk was only 8 GB and also was too small to let it work properly. ![]() The netbook itself, already 10 years old, has an atom processor and only 1 Gb of memory. Since I am the proud owner of lots of electronic junk I decided to combine one of my old netbooks with an external hard drive into a permanent download machine. ![]() How to build a simple download system based on SABnzbd, the Open Source Binary Newsreader.
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