akshakirov January 14, 2010 at 23:18

HP Compaq T5000 - home seedbox

I want to introduce one old, but entertaining device, the HP Compaq T5000 thin client, to the habro-community.
Under cat description, photos and installation of rtorrent + rutorrent on it.

HP Compaq t5000 is a thin client, in my case, released in 2003. Thin client stuffing:

processor	Transmeta (tm) Crusoe (tm) Processor TM5800 - 1000 MHz
memory	128KiB L1 cache
memory	512KiB L2 cache
memory	256MiB SODIMM DDR
bridge	VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge]
bridge	VT8235 ACPI
storage	VT82C586A / B / VT82C686 / A / B / VT823x / A / C PIPC Bus Master IDE
disk	256MB 256MB ATA Flash
bus	VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
multimedia	VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller
network	VT6102 [Rhine-II]

In my case, Windows XP embedded on one and Windows CE .NET on the other was installed on the thin client. Which operating system is installed depends only on the size of RAM and the IDE DOM module.

The first thing that came to mind was to turn on RDP (remote control), install uTorrent, connect a USB hard drive and use it all as a torrent download. Fortunately, the thin client consumes within 20W.

After a little thought, I decided to install Ubuntu. because There was no CD drive at hand, but the tftp server was raised, it was decided to install Ubuntu over the network. And since the 256MB built-in IDE DOM is clearly not enough, I put the system on a 4 gig USB flash drive. The installation option that suits me is described here

simplistically, I just took the ubuntu-installer folder from netboot.tar.gz, put it in / tftpboot / and in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-00-0b-cd-6d-8e-58 added: 01-00-0b-cd-6d-8e-58 is the mac address of the thin client.

include ubuntu-installer/i386/boot-screens/menu.cfg

default ubuntu-installer/i386/boot-screens/vesamenu.c32

prompt 0

timeout 0

Next, the installation process rtorrent + rutorrent.

apt-get install rtorrent wget libapache2-mod-scgi apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-curl screen

wget rutorrent.googlecode.com/files/rtorrent-2.8.tar.gz

tar zxf rtorrent-2.8.tar.gz

mv rtorrent /var/www/

echo 'SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:5000' >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/scgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

service apache2 restart

useradd torrent -d /torrents/


echo 'scgi_port = localhost:5000' > /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'port_range = 6925-6925' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/torrents/watch/*.torrent' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'directory = /torrents/download/' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'session = /torrents/session/' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'hash_read_ahead = 32' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'hash_max_tries = 1' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc

echo 'hash_interval = 1' >> /torrents/.rtorrent.rc


mkdir -p /torrents/{download,session,watch}

chown -R torrent:torrent /torrents/

wget libtorrent.rakshasa.no/attachment/wiki/RTorrentCommonTasks/rtorrentInit.sh?format=raw -O /etc/init.d/rtorrent

sed -i 's/user="user"/user="torrent"/' /etc/init.d/rtorrent

chmod +x /etc/init.d/rtorrent

update-rc.d rtorrent defaults

/etc/init.d/rtorrent start