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Episode: 2463
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Title: HPR2463: Setting up a 32 Bit Ubuntu Server
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2463/hpr2463.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 03:38:28
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This is HPR Episode 2463 entitled, setting up a 32-bit Ubuntu server.
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It is hosted by AWP and is about 13 minutes long and currently in a clean flag.
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The summary is, repurpose a 32-bit small form factor working station.
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Good day and welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
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My name is JWP and today I want to talk to you about a server that I built.
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I had an old server at work and I needed to do something new with it.
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What's the purpose?
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I had an old Windows backup workstation at work and I did a lot of backup with it over
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the years.
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It got to a point where it was too slow and low-spec to handle Windows 7 updates.
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What I would do is update it and I'd come back a couple of days later and be start everything.
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It just got to be too much.
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My company had switched to 365, SharePoint and OneDrive and with OneDrive I can keep all
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of the backups that I would have normally kept in the email there and also over the course
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of the last year I think it went up to two to a terabyte on the OneDrive and three gigabytes
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or so on the exchange server.
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I didn't need to backup and keep and do a search thing anymore and it had become dangerous
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because I dreaded to do the updates.
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With such a low-spec thing I was really tempted just to put it into the recycle bin at work
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but I didn't really want to throw it away because a long time ago I had sprung for
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160 gigabyte hard drive for my own money and I know I purchased on a hard drive for work
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but at the time it seemed like a really good idea and it saved me a lot of time and back then
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there were just four gigabyte drives in it.
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I think at first of course it was run at XP until XP didn't work anymore and then I moved it
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to Windows 7 and it just got really really slow and so my first problem I was pretty sure was
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that it was only 32 bit and I wasn't exactly sure about how to figure that out but I had to
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do some research the first before I even figured it out so it was there was no sentos which I would
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normally use or Sousa both of which I use at work because I had last a really long time
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Sousa and sentos both last eight years and so that means that I just do it and I could have
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went for Dora but again I wanted a really long time of support so it came down to
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Ubuntu 1604, Davien with the i36 or netbst with the i386 option that I could use long-term and
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I'm very comfortable with Ubuntu and why why Ubuntu server versus Ubuntu desktop and again I didn't
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really with one gigabyte of RAM I really didn't want to run Unity with one gigabyte of RAM
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and Mate was just not along enough the support cycle for me three years I don't want to set this
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up and I don't ever ever you know have to try to figure out how to install anything again I want
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the next time just to take it to the recycle bin and be done with it so the
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um so it's a small form factor computer and so I carried it home and downloaded the 32-bit ISO
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and I had a similar problem with my transmitter box it only boots from CD so I had
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but I had a built-in DVD in this little little machine already and it worked it worked and so
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to confirm that it was 32-bit like I thought I had to use the you name on its A and I had to look
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in the proc the proc directory under the CPU to see where it was and it had a little i if it
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didn't have an i in it or l in it the it didn't it doesn't work work work work work well and so the
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let's see what is it so you have to grep flags use the grep command grep flags slash proc
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slash CPU info and that's just a text file and you look for the lm and if it has
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lm is found in the output of the CPU is 64 bit if you don't see an lm or i at 386 or i
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46 or i 586 or i i x86 output and it's a 32-bit 32-bit thing so I didn't see the lm and I
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didn't see any of that other stuff and then also the the if you use you name on its A it'll have
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it'll show say quite clearly if it's 64 bit or not just a simple you name on its A and
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and I put the links in the in the show notes and the show notes for that and okay and so then
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so that so then i've got it and and i was glad that i had it at home and i had a
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little weekend and i had a a ton of trouble i don't have very good lap skills in a moment and so
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i had a lot of trouble with getting owned slash next cloud built both with snaps and the straight
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install and i broke the install several times i couldn't get the and it always seemed to come
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down to i couldn't get the sql server uh right no matter what i tried uh and it seemed to be
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a a Ubuntu problem uh it was specific to Ubuntu with the pro postgres then i i couldn't get it
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right and so finally i just got frustrated and i gave up um and so so that was like well what what
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what can i do i'm on my skills and they're Ubuntu in the moment i can't get it i can't get it right
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and so i said uh um so what what can i do right now and what would be interesting and something
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that i know will work and so what i did was i did a clean install again and i did uh put open
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sql server in it uh i installed tight uh tight vnc server i i uh got an xfce4
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image on there and i put ff impact in there in youtube minus dl and you get um
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and i plan to only in the future play with snaps so if the snap doesn't work well then i just
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uninstall the snap and i try something else if i want to play with it um i used a digital ocean
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article about how to put vnc on Ubuntu and the article even that was written in 2016 it's not
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100 percent so but it was close enough uh you know close enough for me to do it and what i
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recommend is that you not put the vnc server on the auto on the auto load that you just sshn
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and type vnc server and then connect that way because i found that the memory usage was much higher
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if you had it auto start uh if you had it if i had it auto start um and if you have to kill it you
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have to kill it um and why would i need it if i use youtube dl well youtube dl doesn't work
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with every site whereas if i use uh you get it gets every every data and then with ff impact i can
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transcode and since even though it's a slow old 32 bit uh it's not a primary driver and i can
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i can with ff impact i can transcode uh all the video over time no no issue and there's a lot of
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usb ports on this thing so i just put a stick in it and it transfers everything over to the uh stick
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and i take it home and that you know it's my entertainment for the weekend or uh a learning block
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so what is this a youtube uh dl um okay and it's uh it's it's a youtube dl is a command line program
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to download videos from youtube.com and a few more sites it requires a python interpreter uh 2627
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or 32 and it is not uh platform specific so it'll work on a unix box a windows box or macOS
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and it's released to the public domain which means you can modify it redistribute or use it however you
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like um in the future with this uh machine uh i really would really really like to get own cloud
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to work and uh in another video another podcast uh i'll make the choice between using own cloud with
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central west or using own cloud with the boon two but i've had a lot of trouble with my own cloud
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and a boon two and it could just be me that i'm not very good at post grass or whatever
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and i'm going to try my best to get it to work uh with central west and and see if it'll work
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because that's what it said is it's a on the web page that it was primarily uh that they recommended
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red hat server for it and uh for commercial applications and that the red hat was their primary
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partner in commercial ventures now they have a lot of raspberry pie stuff too so i may give that a try
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um so other possible projects is this uh uh STORJ uh storage i think and uh so what what it is
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is is you get uh you sort of rent your storage on your disk drive uh to this cloud company
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and they have like boxed-age storage and they'll give you like some of their
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their searchers uh their currency and for letting you use part of your hard drive and uh i listen to
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some other guys talking about it on the web and some of them off their 32-pit SD card
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were getting like uh ten dollars every three months off of that and so i i have uh i don't know
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a hundred hundred gigabytes free on that little drive and so if i can get it through the firewall
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and that's free power uh i might i might give that a try just to mess around with that and see
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i also have to check with the hr and make sure that that it's it's okay with them uh uh probably
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it'd be okay uh to learn anything i want to with it as long as i don't make any money so i may have
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to just set it up and not uh collect any any money from it uh let's just see how it works um
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um and uh well that's that's really it uh so i did that project and uh i had a lot of
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trials and tribulations again with that that home cloud or our next cloud server and um
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uh in particular with the boom too and and and uh i had a lot of uh enjoyment with that
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youtube dl and fm impact thing and i think that that's going to be really really good
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well uh y'all have a great uh day and uh if you have any questions uh you can reach me at jwp5athopnell.com
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