Shifting HDD to laptop

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Hi,

I am thinking of formatting my spare windows laptop to install the Linux OS and afterwards run RACHEL. It has a 500gb HDD and 8g Ram.

I’m just wondering if the laptop can be used as a server like the RACHEL Pi. If so, are there any other dongles or devices that I need to attach to the laptop so that it transmits Wifi signal just like RACHEL Pii.

Can someone please assist me?

Need immediate help please. Thanks

Nigel

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I believe if you search the forums you can find some answers on this. @jamesk has a thread with scripts for putting RACHEL on Ubuntu.

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Thanks Jeremy,

so does this mean that other gadgets or laptops would be accessing the content via wifi? Just like the Rachel Pi?

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It’s possible. You should try @jamesk scripts and see if your WiFi card supports that. If not, you can attach your computer to a router or buy a dongle that supports access point mode.

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@Nigel what model is the laptop? You should be able to install Ubuntu and then RACHEL using a script but using it as a wifi hotspot might require an extra wifi adapter.

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Hi James,

The laptop is a HP 15.6" 250 G6 Celeron N3060 4GB RAM 500GB Notebook.
I might need a wifi adaptor right?

Please advise.

Thanks a lot

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It seems to have a Wifi adapter in it that can do access point mode. I’ll modify a script for you to try. It might take me a bit of time though as the other Ubuntu script was for local use without wifi. I’ll upload it when it’s done.

James

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Thanks a lot James. Appreciate that.
Will standby…

Cheers
Nigel

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Okay hopefully this installer works. here are the instructions

  1. Install ubuntu ( I used ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso)
  2. open a terminal
  3. sudo apt-get update
  4. sudo apt-get upgrade
  5. sudo reboot now
  6. download ubuntu_installer.zip and extract the installer directory to /var/tmp
  7. open a terminal
  8. cd /var/tmp
  9. sudo python3 installer.py

let me know how that goes or if you have any errors. I suspect you might but we can fix them when they happen.

James