If you followed along with the recent guide, How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Always-On BitTorrent Box, you can skip this step as you just updated and upgraded during that tutorial.Īt the terminal, enter the following commands:
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The first order of business is to update and upgrade your apt-get installer. Once you’ve reviewed all the material and have the Pi configured, it’s time to get down to the business of turning your Pi into a silent and ultra-low-power downloading beast. You’ll need to get an account from a reliable provider–see our guide for general information about Usenet and tips on which providers to consider. Unlike torrents where you can get by hopping from public tracker to public tracker, there’s no such thing as a reliable and free public Usenet server.
If you don’t have a Usenet account you absolutely need to read our guide to get up to speed. If you’re already familiar with Usenet and have an account with a reliable Usenet provider, that’s awesome. TL DR version: Use Newshosting, they are the best in the business. The How-To Geek Guide to Getting Started with Usenet.In addition to the prior reading list, if you’re not overly familiar with the ins and outs of Usenet, we strongly suggest reading the following tutorial: How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Low-Power Network Storage DeviceĮverything in the first tutorial is necessary, the second tutorial is optional (but remote access is incredibly handy to have for this project as a download box is a perfect candidate for a headless build), and the most important part of the third tutorial is simply setting up the hard drive and configuring it to auto-mount on boot.How to Configure Your Raspberry Pi for Remote Shell, Desktop, and File Transfer.The HTG Guide to Getting Started with Raspberry Pi.If you need to get up to speed in these areas, we strongly suggest reading the following guides in the order we have them listed here: What Do I Need?įor this tutorial we assume that you have a Raspberry Pi unit with Raspbian installed, are able to access the device either directly via an attached monitor and keyboard or remotely via SSH and VNC, and that you have a USB drive (or drives) attached to it. Read on as we show you how to turn your Pi into a lean, mean, and dead silent Usenet downloading machine.
You’ll never have to leave your desktop machine on over night to finish up that file or skip playing the game you wanted to play because your machine is tied up unpacking and verifying a huge download. The final benefit is how having an always-on download box shifts the burden off your desktop machine.
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If you use Usenet to grab your favorite TV shows, for example, an always on Raspberry Pi download box will snap them up the second they’re available. While Usenet downloads are unidirectional (there’s no seeding, trackers, or ratio monitoring like there is with a peer-to-peer service like BitTorrent), you still benefit from 24/7 operation.
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