On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Mr O wrote: > So... I tried to run the folding@home client with DemoLinux and no harddrive. > Didn't work. I don't know whether or not you can create a larger RAM disk as > well because the defaults were too small to run the client. Anybody got a > clue on that one so I can try again? Try the Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit, it has a somewhat smaller memory image.
> Next up, just for the hell of it... threw QNX on a 500 meg drive. Client > doesn't run on that either. > Next?? > It's too bad that they have not yet released the code it seems like it would be the best way that they could get some of the optimisations and workarounds needed for largescale deployment up and running. I noticed that this mornings adventures with trying to upload the 1 completed WU resulted in my being mistakenly credited with having completed 3 even though it died while trying to upload. Also a little work on dealing with modems and startup scripts would make it an even more pleasant thing. f'r instance instead of creating a directory called work/ it should create a directory called folding/ containing a folding/work/ folding/log set of subdirectories. Roger and I both had the experience of having to go look through a fairly fat directory called work/ and of hoping that we hadn't accidentally overwritten something by installing the folding@home client. And did I mention the benefits of tweaking it for the slow among us... > I'm open for other off the wall stuff. > > Later, > > Mr O > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
