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What linux distro do you recommend? - elimist - 06-04-2010
I plan on running hashcat on a bunch of really old computers. Most have 128 mb ram, only a few GB hdd space, pentium processors. What linux distribution would you recommend?
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - atom - 06-04-2010
not sure if the distribution make a diffrence. ubuntu 9.x has been tested a lot and it works fine on there. more important is that the cpus support sse2
$ grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - elimist - 06-04-2010
yes but some are significantly smaller than others, and I don't need all the desktop apps.
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - hops - 06-05-2010
you can setup a ubuntu server without gui using the ubuntu alternate cd
or if you want to take a deeper look into linux, i recommend you arch linux
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - elimist - 06-10-2010
ok, I have an ubuntu server 64bit installed on my usb drive without gui. How do I run or install hashcat? I tried extracting the hashcat-cli.bin, but it says "unknown suffix -- ignored". I also tried copying the .bin to "/bin", and running it but it just says "-bash: /bin/hashcat-cli.bin: No such file or directory" although I can clearly tell that the file is there by running ls.
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - atom - 06-10-2010
unrar x hashcat-0.34.rar
./hashcat-cli.bin -h
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - elimist - 06-10-2010
It still says "No such file or directory". I am a bit confused now because pressing tab after typing half of the file name completes it, so the system should know it is there.
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - atom - 06-10-2010
hashcat is a 32 bit only app and you are on 64 bit linux. so you need to install 32 bit compatibility libraries. maybe this helps: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
RE: What linux distro do you recommend? - elimist - 06-11-2010
Thanks. I installed that and rebooted and now it works.