hello, Just installed Mint16 and works great, then installed NzbDrone and went to Setting,Download Client and chose Blackhole
and having trouble with how to pick a Folder because in Linux there are no drive letters to use for the NZB’s or the download folders for the files. I have two USB sticks one labeled Purpel and another labeled Pink but can’t find a way to ref these Usb sticks in NzbDrone’s folders. Any help would be great on how I can ref these sticks. Thanks in advance naselloj
They are still mounted somewhere, typically the OS is on / and other drives are /mnt/device or something similar to that.
When you plug the usb sticks Mint usually creates a shortcut on the desktop. If you open that in the file explorer, it will give you a path you can use.
/mnt/ is a good spot, so is /media/ often.
Thanks markus101 I have it working but I also have it working on Windows and world like to import all my series names from windows to Linux can that be done I do not want to type in some two hundred show? Again thanks
Why switch?
Switching from Windows to Linux and vice versa is not supported. The paths are a mess and cause all sorts of little issues. Is not too bad to convert the series over, it’s the episode files.
If the folders exist in a shared location you can import existing.
Unsupported, perform at your own risk:
The only other way would be to try and convert the series over in the UI and wipe all the episode files from the sqlite DB.
@naselloj While I love linux, and think it’s great for things like this (automated programs that just run forever), as you are obviously a complete noob with linux (no offense, I was too many many years ago), I think you’d be better served either keeping Drone on Windows for a while, or using Sickbeard on linux as it has native support.
Why are you switching? Maybe we can help find a smoother path to get you there?
Yes I am a complete noob but I just bought a Raspberry Pi and am trying to learn some programming in Linux.
You see it’s all fun for me to try and learn something new.
I get that. But I’d suggest starting w/ native linux clients before trying to get something shoe horned in.
For a pie, check out nzbget to download with. It’s a little lighter (although unrar is heavy on any machine).
i agree with some of the comments above i would class myself as an advanced windows user but with linux i am complete noob and last year i tried a similar thing of getting NzbDrone amongst others to run on a Linux machine it was a constant battle and disaster not because NzbDrone doesn’t perform well it does IMO it is a brilliant piece of software however i found several issues trying to go the linux route
so went back to windows and haven’t looked back all those issues spending hours researching for linux took 5 minutes on windows and i will say Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been rock solid for me i have had both running on my home server previously Server 2012 but had some driver issues (not current drivers not windows fault) so had to revert back to Windows 8.1 Pro which is currently running like a champ on my home server and suits my needs i have Sabnzbd and NzbDrone happily running on that
i would from personal experience just test what you need to do in say a VM of linux before making the complete switch i went both ways and the amount of time i spent installing Linux Distros and Windows was ridiculous
if you are determined though all the best and any help post on these forums we have a great group of people on here most of whom know their stuff 
Thanks to all for the help and I think I will stay with Window 8.1 and just play with Linux for some fun.
yeah that is what i do i run windows 8.1 on the machines i need up a functioning (AKA Mission Critical) then i just have Virtualbox on my Main machine which i use to play around with different distro’s
i am wanting to begin re-doing my home server soon it is getting old and whilst it is currently running windows 8.1 pro and working great there is too much geeky temptation to want to run linux on it at the moment i cannot as i have Raid cards installed which there is no good linux drivers for so have to stick with windows but my new server probably won’t have these cards so i can perhaps try and see how linux goes
you also need to think if something goes wrong do you know how to quickly and easily fix it with windows this is easily achievable but linux if you are not familiar it may take spending hours researching the correct command to input or finding the right piece of software whereas windows most things can be found quickly and usually take a couple mouse clicks that is the power of using a more Mainstream OS there is a ton more support for every little issue out there
I can say Windows 8.1 is very stable OS i have not had any BSOD or anything from it i did have to reboot manually because of a Memory leak but i think that was another piece of software i was using causing that
@protocol77 I have to disagree w/ you about finding what you need on Windows easier.
I won’t say Linux is easier, but it IS more documented for most things. Usually you can just man and get every option there is. Try that with Windows. Hell, even /help doesn’t work much of the time.
I would say they are about equal in being able to get good help with odd problems. However, YOUR familiarity with each will have a noticeable impact on how well you are at finding that help. And in that sense, you’re exactly right about ‘if it goes down, can you bring it back up quickly.’
My suggestion for anyone wanting to move to linux is move 1 thing at a time, and use all linux native applications to start.
Good points on all sides here. But for my 2 cents, if you want to learn something, you need to try, and try some more, spend a long time Googling things, and keep trying.
I built a Linux server many years ago without ever having done much Linux before, and persisted until it did everything I wanted. Then I built another, and incorporated everything I had learnt so it was better. Rinse and repeat. Im no master linux user, but I know my way around it now and can follow instructions to get things I want working. Drone was a piece of cake to get working on my current Ubuntu server, took all of about 10 minutes.
Anyway, the problem here isnt the level of experience, it was migrating databases. As @markus101 said migrating can be bad due to file system differences. However, its not impossible. I have done it numerous times with Sickbead.
@naselloj keep running on Linux mate, its a beautiful OS no matter what the flavour and IMO far superior to Windows anyday. Ask questions, Google answers and make that Pi do everything you want!
I can see your points and i am in no way putting down linux i feel it is a fantastic operating system granted if you know what you are doing and that like windows initially takes time without trying to start a flame war MYSELF I find windows far easier for my purposes and can deploy and managed a windows system much more easily than a linux setup this i would say is mostly due to my lack of experience of Linux that being said i would very much like to learn more about linux i have been curious about it for a while i just need to have the time and patience to sit down and learn which is not something i can do right now
so for that fact i stick to windows as it is familiar and it has made great strides in terms of security and stability yes perhaps not on the same level as linux but still at an acceptable level for most people hence why at least in the desktop world it is still dominant. of course linux gets it’s own back in the server world
I think overall for the home environment it is not so much as a concern there are people running servers just find on copies of window xp, windows 7, windows 8, and server 2012 just as there are people out there running servers on one of the many different linux distro’s and both work well for basic file sharing and networking
so just use what you have and are comfortable with