Work is progressing on turning my old spare-room Athlon 1.4 GHz PC into a data server. That would be a 4 disk drive system running Linux (Debian) and Samba ; so my Windows PC can ‘see’ the data over the LAN.
It’s currently off with my local PC guru store whose mission is – and I quote from my own note to them :
Aim: to have 4 hard drives, currently has 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives.
So please:
a) Remove both optical drives (CD and DVD ROM)
b) Replace them with the 2 provided old Maxtor drives
SN Y2R4Pxxx (60 GB)
SN 2B020yyy (20 GB)
Please leave 2 hard drives already in place there. The first (boot) has both Windows and Linux on it
The system currently dual-boots Windows XP and Linux. Not for long. Windows will soon be purged, wiped, nuked and deleted.