On Monday 02 July 2007 17:33, jim barchuk wrote: > HiHi All! > > I need to change a pokey old laptop from xp to linux. But I'd rather not > lose a few months of prime95 calcs, or wait the few weeks till the current > assignment completes. This can't be a new topic, someone musta been there > done that, but I can't find any real info via google. > > So the question is what is the correct process/procedure to migrate the xp > installation of prime95 from xp over to linux?
Should not be a problem. Just move the files from the windoze folder to a directory on the linux system. The only gotcha likely to catch windoze mode thinkers is that linux systems do _not_ by default run executables in the current working directory. Either add . to the PATH environmental variable or put a copy of mprime somewhere on the path( ~/bin is a good choice) or invoke mprime by explicitly invoking the current directory i.e. ./mprime -d & instead of just mprime -d & If you're rebuilding the system copy the windoze files to a USB memory stick, zip drive or even a CD-R > > (Although I've been running prime95 on up to 3 pcs both win and linux for > about 10 years I'm not completely familiar with all the functions, > features and operations of individual files.) > > As I (think I) see it I need to keep: > > pI and qI files > local.ini > worktodo.ini > prime.ini > > And I think these 'should' be optional just for the historical record: > > prime.log You can probably happily chuck that one > results.txt but you might want to convert it from windoze EOL to unix EOL by running dos2unix on it (changes carriage return+line feed to just line feed) > > If -that- is correct, then the next Q is that I -think- it should be > required that I run dos2unix on the text files, inis and log? Should work fine without converting the .ini's > > If -that- is correct, then the process seems to be: > > Stop prime95. > Backup and move current xp prime95 files. > Make copies of current files, for safety > Run dos2unix on text files. > Build new linux pc. > Install prime95 for linux. > Copy the saved/converted files to new linux installation. > Start linux prime95 > > NOPE! Not quite, ooops. I think I'm mostly wrong about most of that > description, at least as far as the inis go. First, I see my linux prime95 > has a primnet.ini that's not in xp. Long obsolete. Delete it. > Also, there're a couple of different > linux-specific lines in prime.ini that are not in the xp prime.ini. Let them default unless you have a good reason not to. > Of > course the -function- of the two OS versions are the same, but the > -methods- are a little different. > > So, it looks like I should -not- move certain xp files, but let the new > linux install deal with them, such as editing prime.ini for ID and > password and such. > > The only files I know for -sure- to keep and move are the pI and qI. And > probably worktodo.ini because they're already assigned. Move the lot. Then lose the executable & primenet.ini. Unzip mprimevxxx.zip to a temporary directory, move the executable (only) to ./bin and erase the temporary directory contents. Then dos2unix < results.txt > temp.tmp && mv -f temp.tmp results.txt Should be it. If you have a problem with libraries get & unzip sprimevxxx.zip then move the new mprime - will be a lot bigger as it is linked statically i.e. no dependence on external libraries. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
