Settin' up a Torrent Box - Specs, Software, etc.

[MatthewC]

Howdy all,

I'm tried of having to always use a BitTorrent client on my computer to download my favorite torrents, so I've decided to use a old computer of mine as a deciated torrent box.

Here's the specs:

Make and Model: NeoWare EON Thin Client
300Mhz Geode CPU
64MB RAM - This could be a worry.
48MB SSD (DiskOnModule) - Enough to hold Tiny Core Linux and the torrent apps?
10/100 LAN (Built-in)

I've run Damn Small Linux on the rig and it performs nicely. I am thinking of having the torrents save to an external location, such as a 8GB Flash Drive, to prevent the DiskOnModule running out of space.

However, I would need to confirm if the following are available (unless someone is willing to compile them for me):

rTorrent (CLI Torrent Program)
Nginx / Lighttpd with PHP Support (for rTWi, a rTorrent Web UI)
PHP 5.x (confirmed, as it's in the TCE repo)

The thing is that I'd like to use a Web UI for managing my torrents on the box, as this is going to be a headless box, mounted under my server, downloading my torrents. All I'll do then is FTP into the box, and download them off the USB Drive.

Is this possible, or has anyone already done this?

Cheers!

[bmarkus]

nginx 0.7.62 is in the repo.

[batnas]

It should be possible

I have almost the same pc, which runs lighttpd+php. I don't know about nginx or rWTI, but it shoud be.

\\Batnas

[MatthewC]

Alright, now we're cooking.

How hard would it be for someone to package up rtorrent (make it a static build for the fun of it) and put in the TCE repo? I'd love to, but I'm not a pro at compiling stuff... Most stuff I compile catches fire.

Cheers!

[curaga]

There are other clients with webUIs, like Transmission and Aria2 in the repo.

[MatthewC]

Alright, thanks.

I've used Transmission before and it's quite good, but I've had quirks with it for some reason.

I'll try Aria2, I'll keep you posted on status.

[MatthewC]

Alright, got Transmission installed. Is there any way to get MicroCore to load the TCZ Files at boot?

At the moment, it goes "Loading TCE Extensions.... DONE" at boot, but running "transmission-cli" results in "command not found" until I manually install the extension. Fixed.

Also, I heard there's something you can use that will copy TCE to a filesystem or something. What's that about? I need the torrent rig to have as much free memory as possible, I don't want to have kernel panics or anything like that.

Cheers!

[curaga]

Copy2fs without PPI would unpack them in ram, making them run faster but use ram. With PPI they would be unpacked on the disk, using more disk.

I think the default mode of mount is the most appropriate in your setup.

[MatthewC]

Alright.

Question. How do I get MicroCore to start dropbear on startup, as I've just installed the TCE?

I have added the transmission entry in /opt/bootlocal.sh for /etc/init.d/dropbear start, and run the filetool backup script, then specified the restore=hda1 parameter to the kernel... but it does nothing. Dropbear doesn't start.

This is starting to tick me off, but it won't beat me... Hehe... 

[curaga]

Are you sure your backup worked? Is it restored properly?

[MatthewC]

Apparently so. I did do a filetool.sh backup... :/

I thought filetool.sh restore would be automatically done at boot?

[curaga]

I thought filetool.sh restore would be automatically done at boot?

It is. Have you checked that there's a mydata.tgz file with correct contents, and that after boot your edits are in /opt/bootlocal.sh?