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Sounds good to me. I have a lab also, that's going to get some upgrades soon.

You seem like a good person to race. Blew by me awhile ago when the farm was smaller. -OC3d

Just so you know, Ubuntu is a variant of Debian. Debian and its variants are often highly-recommended to new Linux users because of their excellent package management, stability, (especially so for the variants) easy installation, and large support communities. Ubuntu comes in 2 flavors each...

In KDE you can find a nice set of context menus for the mouse right-click for managing/mounting iso's. It is available at www.kde-look.org in the service menus section. These menus will only be available when you right-click an iso file. They are easy to install.

Seeing as I have several builds uncompressed on my Duallie.... I generally reboot off a live CD with the exact same kernel/cloop module as the one I'll be remastering. I pivot my root to the uncompresssed system on the drive, mount /proc and such. Then update and gut the system with apt-get...

winamp runs in wine with almost 100% functionality.

You need unofficial sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list. To find this particular source search for "mplayer debian sources" in google. I don't know the url off-hand, but its ftp.nerim.something.....

My distro's not cooked from scratch but from a lovingly prepared stew consisiting mostly of Knoppix, with dashes of pure Debian, Kubuntu, Kanotix, and KDE-look.org. Also, mage was a big help taking my linux-client based folding service to the next level. And its my co-developer that works out...

Mage!! Can't you just use su -c in your script? In my fold services on Overclockix, I always launch folding with- chown -R user:user /the/fold/directory cd /the/folding/directory su -c "./FAHConsole -max -pwnage -flags > /dev/null &" user So while root launches my fold service as...

Get it here- Link You'll need bittorrent. Time for a new Overclockix iso! I call this one 3.79 (overdozed), and its basically 3.7 combined with LTSP 2.1, plus all of the look and new software from 3.8, but none of the bugs. So the kernels' (2.4.27 & 2.6.9) are not quite the newest, but...

Knoppix64 http://www.applia.fr/contents/knoppix64.html or Kanotix64. http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.php?t=5474

Not to steal the thunder.... There's a more bloated distro out there based on Knoppix which can function as a fold server (with only 1 NIC), can fold when run live from CD (using a pendrive or hdd or network share or ramdisk for the folding directory), or can be a 20 minute HDD-install with...

errr Knoppix on the brain. knoppix is not the name of the kernel image for a kubuntu live CD. I'm not sure what is... might be linux, might be kubuntu. Consult kubuntu ppl/forums/docs to find out how to pass various options to the kernel and/or HW detection scripts at boot. In Knoppix this...

I do it this way- Run the linux distro's installer to create at least two Linux partition(s) at the front of the disk. Then quit. Then install windows. Then install Linux. ex- /dev/hda1 - swap partition /dev/hda2 - root partition /dev/hda3 - C: for windows /dev/hda4 - extended...

What video card? I'd bet that using the cheatcode- knoppix 2 will get you booted into text mode just fine. Sounds like kanotix is choking up on your video hardware. There are other cheatocdes that might remedy this, but it will help to know what kind of hardware you've got. PS-...

apt-get update apt-get install -t unstable gnome

If you;re using KDE, then install superkaramba. I have themes here that can monitor folding progress and display it in a transperant window on your desktop. Some editing required. They currently look for folding to be in your home directory ina folder called fold. You can setup your folding...

Makle a root crontab entry to reset the permissions every minute- crontab -e * * * * * chmod -R 777 /your/folding/directory

If you're having trouble authenticating to access a samba share... why not just get on the server and run- smbpasswd -a some_username_here That will set a password for some_user to have access to samba shares. Then- /etc/init.d/samba restart to restart the samba daemons.

Boot in text mode and startx. Change /etc/inittab's line for default runlevel:5 to 3. Create a /home/your_username/.xinitrc Inside this .xinitrc file put- startkde (or a the path/command to start the WM of your choice) exec gnome-session (I think is what you'd use for gnome)...

Unhappy_mage is not the only one cranking out simplified Linux distros or Linux folding service installers... My distro requires only 1 NIC and has a GUI installer.

Try rebuilding the user's profile?

Likewise my Linux folding service installer should create up to 8 instances of F@H for you. http://overclockix.octeams.com/foldinstaller.tgz I've only been able to test this on single and dual CPU's, and have confirmed that single HT P4's are treated as two cpu's. My code should be fine for...

Generally a single CPU system overclocks better and costs less. Since the second core gives you no advantage in current games, the choice shoud be obvious.

It's very possible. usually CTRL + ALT + + will change resolution on the fly. In KDE anyway. And I guess it depends on the xsession script somewhat. Knoppix-based live CD's are set to restart if the Xserver is killed. But you can boot them in text mode, create a ~/.xinitrc, run startx and...

I can provide the working samba configs used in Overclockix if needed.

Step 1) Install kubuntu Step 2) Enjoy automatically configured dualboot system Step 3) Boot into Windows less and less Step 4) Uninstall Windows

Something like 18 months.... FreeBSD 4.7

Any live CD is going to have a very modular kernel.... they have to support as much hardware as they can. So if you wanna build a compact kernel after installing such a distro, then you basically should grab source and configure it from scratch. That should take less than 20 minutes if you're...

http://overclockix.octeams.com/rebuildfstab1-0.01.i686.rpm This rpm is the script in Knoppix that generates a user-friendly fstab file. I did a little work on it for Yoper Linux and so now its in rpm format. It's easy to install- cd to where it is rpm -i filename.rpm Most distros...

Wow, I'm jumping in this one late.... anyway I did not read the whole thread but one thing in the first page caught my eye. Stanford will not assign bigpackets to any machine that doesn't have at least 256MB of ram. The fold server would have to have 256MB of ram but its clients would not...

Build one from an old box with two NIC's and add any size switch. OpenBSD, Coyote Linux, Smoothwalll... lots of great opensource OS's that can make for a mighty good router.

Knoppix is a nice distribution to start with. It's very popular so support is easy to find. You can run it without installing it, and installed (simple to do) it has a great package manager (apt-get). It's mostly setup for you already and there are several hundred flavors of it that people...

I've used apt-src to try and make the system more like gentoo- compiling source for i686 and with various optimizations. However, I've found it does not work so well. It may work fine for an app here or there, but trying to apt-src big packages will fail. Seems you'll eventaully run into...

Sounds like an issue with the bootloader. Might want to create a bootfloppy this time around just in case. It's simple to edit/reinstall the bootloader once you're up and running. You may want to try a different install style option. I almost always use the debian-style choice.

you could also do some things like- 1) Compile a custom kernel with less stuff compiled into it, optimized for your cpu 2) disable some daemons that you don't need and disable some of the virtual tty's to conserve ram 3) switch to a lighter desktop environment or window manager like xfce...

Knew I forgot something....

Ok, well you could do this- boot with the code: knoppix 2 Then it'd run in text mode and mem req for the OS overhead would be less than 50MB. You could also use codes like desktop=icewm or desktop=fluxbox, to use minimalistic window managers instead of KDE and OS overhead'd still be...

The Overclockix live CD (for folding/boinc/prime) has just been updated. This release is not for LTSP farms (though LTSP stuff is included). And remember, it folds for me by default, so change/restart folding with the command- cfgfold Or... edit the default.client.cfg before burning the...

Stanford has said they are planning and working on a cluster client of F@H. WHat type of cluster its for I'm not sure... but Team 32 will be swift in producing a linux distro to take advantage of it if and when Stanford releases it.