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Diskless Client

Vaulter98c

Vaulter98c

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Not sure if this has been posted here or not, but here's a link to a diskless bootCD version of Notfred's that you can customize then set/forget

LINK

Even if this has been posted, weve had an influx of new guys so they may want to try it out. Once I get a rig that I can offline and not lose serious PPD I'll try this out

Also, it says on there you can make a bootable USB drive to do the same thing, that might be something to look into!
 
Yes, we've all known and loved notfred's folding CD for some time, I'm actually still running one in a VM on my daughters PC since I've been too lazy to make a real Linux VM. But it does bear repeating for everyone who's new.

For those who don't know:

When you go to the link provided, it asks you for your username, team number, and a couple config options and gives you a customized .iso image that you can burn to as many cd's as you like. It automatically detects if it should run the console client or the LinSMP client. Just put it in the CD-ROM drive and run. This is about as easy as you're going to find in the world of F@H.
 
Nice! Are all the drivers on it? Or do I have to manually add them?

EDIT: I'll find out...
 
only basic Linux drivers, Enough to power the rig and the NIC. You dont even need a HDD or a video card

There is a video card driver, but video is kinda pointless

This would be great if someone worked at a school, they could load this up every weekend and let school computers fold
 
jeremyshaw said:
Nice! Are all the drivers on it? Or do I have to manually add them?

EDIT: I'll find out...
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All the drivers necessary for its use (all the NIC cards supported by Linux, thumbdrive, etc) are included with the kernel notfred built into the CD.
 
Vaulter98c said:
This would be great if someone worked at a school, they could load this up every weekend and let school computers fold
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If you were looking at that many machines it would make a lot of sense to set up a 'real' diskless system and PXE boot a Linux image. It's not really that difficult to set up, and for a couple hundred machines, well worth it ;).
 
Not at our school... Most of our computers are P4 with hyperthreading, verging on 6 years. Some of the labs got newer Core2Duos(really low end...) with a funny 1GB of ram, and our all the staff have e8xxx C2D computers.
 
keenan said:
If you were looking at that many machines it would make a lot of sense to set up a 'real' diskless system and PXE boot a Linux image. It's not really that difficult to set up, and for a couple hundred machines, well worth it ;).
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Same guy has a PXELinux image available, I run it at home.

Easy to set up with tftpd-hpa and xinetd
 
Pre GPu client, when SMP was new, notfred's was the way to go.

I think I has a half dozen boxen running it at one time. No cases, vid cards, or HDD.

It was the only way to fold back in the day.
 
I just set up a nekkid, headless, diskless system earlier today booting up via PXE. Seems to be working well. I'm using the PXE image and instructions from LinuxForge.

Now to find an extra video card so I don't have to shutdown two systems when overclocking...
 
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