Server on old computer

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Hi! I have and old computer that doesn’t have a HDD. Is it possible to turn it into a minecraft server?
I guess I can use a pendrive as and disk. I watched some videos on youtube where they use MineOs an d Freenas but I don’t understand if you can play with friends when they are not in the same network.

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Can you give us what kind of specks it has like what cpu and how much ram.

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It is a very old notebook. Couldn’t find the model on internet. Dissambling it i found that it has 2gb ram and a 2.5Ghz processor(if im not wrong). But my question if is it possible to run mineOs on an pendrive?

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The short answer is yes.

The long answer is you would not have a great experience doing anything. Especially running a Minecraft Server.

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Yes, I supposed that was a possibility. Do you know how to do it? Because when I try to install mineOs it tells me that can’t find the hdd

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Your laptop needs to support being able to boot from your flash drive/ needs to be set up to do so.

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What you’re trying to do is possible, but it’s not the standard way to set it up; it deviates from the normal installation method.

And again, while technically possible, it is very likely to provide a not-great experience (slow and less intuitive usage).

If you wish to truly go down this route and explore how it works, my recommendations are these:

  1. don’t use MineOS turnkey; use a distro meant for thumbdrive usage–mineos is released as a distro but the webui functionality is not required to be used with MineOS Turnkey.
  2. does this leave you with a permanent place to save, or is your distro only working on a throwaway filesystem?
  3. determine where mineos script data will be saved, where game data will be saved.
  4. learn and install mineos scripts/webui successfully on a machine that uses normal installation methods

It is my best guess that this HDD-less computer will be difficult and trying. Again, it’s not that possible, but coming at it from a computer with no permanence and never having used the webui or installed it… it’s a bit of a recipe for frustration.

Consider a hard drive, honestly, because having only 2gb of memory for minecraft is already a huge limitation of that machine… it’s almost already outdone by raspberry pis.