Diskless cruncher.

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Chilean Send message Joined: 16 Oct 05 Posts: 711 Credit: 26,694,507 RAC: 0	Message 71366 - Posted: 4 Oct 2011, 5:34:02 UTC Well, it seems that with a 2GB pendrive, you can have any computer crunch BOINC without the need of a hard drive. Excellent for old laptops with dead hard drives (e.g.: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1483703). 1. Get www.linuxliveusb.com/ 2. Run, intall linux OS in pendrive. 3. Boot from pendrive. I yet have to figure out a simple way to load the whole pendrive to RAM (for laptops that have a battery as backup in case of power failure). Hope this helps. ID: 71366 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,135,082 RAC: 4,703	Message 71369 - Posted: 4 Oct 2011, 12:10:31 UTC - in response to Message 71366. Well, it seems that with a 2GB pendrive, you can have any computer crunch BOINC without the need of a hard drive. Excellent for old laptops with dead hard drives (e.g.: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1483703). 1. Get www.linuxliveusb.com/ 2. Run, intall linux OS in pendrive. 3. Boot from pendrive. I yet have to figure out a simple way to load the whole pendrive to RAM (for laptops that have a battery as backup in case of power failure). Hope this helps. Krunchin' Keith over on Malaria, and other projects, has been using a USB disk for a while now, he boots to Windows, on an SSD hard drive, and then uses the USB disk to hold the Boinc files. ID: 71369 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1831 Credit: 119,523,428 RAC: 9,566	Message 71371 - Posted: 4 Oct 2011, 14:50:32 UTC - in response to Message 71366. Well, it seems that with a 2GB pendrive, you can have any computer crunch BOINC without the need of a hard drive. Excellent for old laptops with dead hard drives (e.g.: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1483703). 1. Get www.linuxliveusb.com/ 2. Run, intall linux OS in pendrive. 3. Boot from pendrive. I yet have to figure out a simple way to load the whole pendrive to RAM (for laptops that have a battery as backup in case of power failure). Hope this helps. Why do you need to run from RAM? The USB drive will still have power when running from battery? I run my server (win xp) from a pair of compactflash cards running in RAID-0, with the BOINC data folder on another compactflash card. Works well so far. I tried running Ubuntu from a USB stick too - worked fine using a setup program like this one [url]http://www.linuxliveusb.com[url] Running Windows from USB is a lot more tricky - the process is reasonably straight forward with XP but a bit of a nightmare with Vista/7. ID: 71371 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Dotsch Send message Joined: 12 Feb 06 Posts: 111 Credit: 241,803 RAC: 0	Message 71441 - Posted: 19 Oct 2011, 18:54:50 UTC Last modified: 19 Oct 2011, 18:55:22 UTC I have made a special Linux Distribution(Dotsch/UX) for BOINC, which boots from USB sticks and also has build in tools to setup a server to boot and run diskless clients ofer network. ID: 71441 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1831 Credit: 119,523,428 RAC: 9,566	Message 71443 - Posted: 19 Oct 2011, 21:41:36 UTC - in response to Message 71441. I have made a special Linux Distribution(Dotsch/UX) for BOINC, which boots from USB sticks and also has build in tools to setup a server to boot and run diskless clients ofer network. Sorry Dotsch - I had seen you post about that before and even looked at it myself so should have mentioned it! ID: 71443 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote