I just got lucky.

[cured]

Ok well, here in Melbourne Australia its hard rubbish, which is like you throw everything you dont want onto the street and people come and collect it..

I went searching for computers and in 5 mins i found 4 PC's.
ATI Radeon Card(i think).
20GB MaXtor HDD.
256MB x2
128MB x1
Unknown x2 (RAM)

here are some pics.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/843/picture004tm5.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6923/picture006ge0.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5696/picture009vn6.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3096/picture010va1.jpg

[danthegeek]

Awesome, always fun to find free stuff. You could make a half decent file server with that stuff. Hopefully it all works well.

-danthegeek

[cured]

yeh ive been trying one, but when it boots on the Hewlett-Packard scrren it then goes to a blank screen with a blinking _ at the top?

[khalie]

Why I`m not so lucky :( nice find :up:

[cured]

im going back out looking tommorow :) Does anyone know what series that ATI is?

EDIT: ATI radeon R92P-SC3

http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=PG&item=49325

[danthegeek]

yeh ive been trying one, but when it boots on the Hewlett-Packard scrren it then goes to a blank screen with a blinking _ at the top?

The had drives where probably formated so there is no Operating System on them.

[cured]

i plugged it into my 2nd HDD slot and its working fine.

[MaxOC]

lucky bastard lol. do you guys know if they crush computers at the dump? i really need a file server. and i need to figure out how to set it up. guide on the internets link plz?

[Computer-Geek]

yeh ive been trying one, but when it boots on the Hewlett-Packard scrren it then goes to a blank screen with a blinking _ at the top?
I had that same issue & when i installed linux mint nothing changed :think: I may try installing DSL(Damn Small Linux) then.

[.Maleficus.]

lucky bastard lol. do you guys know if they crush computers at the dump? i really need a file server. and i need to figure out how to set it up. guide on the internets link plz?
No, they don't, because computers have hazardous materials in them. They go to special places where they are disposed of properly.

Also, after Googling "linux file server tutorial" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+file+server+tutorial), I got 7,580,000 results. So I'll let you look through them.

[MaxOC]

dzamn. cuz if i cant find em at the dump i wont find em anywhere.

[Spawn-Inc]

No, they don't, because computers have hazardous materials in them. They go to special places where they are disposed of properly.

ha, thats what were told, they go to china, India and get melted in acids and what not to get the various metals out like gold.

[cured]

MaxOC, if you look around your area, if they have a hard rubbish then you can find heaps there just lieing on peoples lawns.. Where do you live? google your council, shire wateva u call it and it might say when they do that

[.Maleficus.]

@ cured: I don't think you should be saying stuff like that. You might consider editing your post.

[cured]

sorry, edited

[MaxOC]

we live in the filthy rich retirement area since we bought the land when it was only worth 100000$ for my house. now its 500000$ so yeah. no trash dumps or heaps.

[cured]

okay lol then buying a second hand one shouldnt be a problem :P

or you could dual-boot on 2 harddrives, and all you need is a 2nd HDD.. maybe

[.Maleficus.]

To make a very decent file server, you don't need much over a 700MHz Celeron with 256MB of RAM. You could put on something like DSL (Damn Small Linux) or a base Gentoo install, and run it headless and without a UI (headless meaning no monitor, keyboard or mouse). Then, you could just use SSH to access the files (what I do with mine).

And either way, you could install a lightweight DE with, say, FVWM or EvilWM for the WM and have a very usable server with a UI.

[cured]

i think im going to make a fileserver out of these parts.

and i might case mod

[SgtM]

Check out these cool linux tuts:
Linux in a nutshell - http://thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9190
Fedora 7 web server with Squid Proxy - http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10369