Folding with no HD?

[embries]

I've got a laptop with a dead IDE Header. The CD works (mostly) but HDs are a no go. What can I do to get this little guy running? I'll fold UD or F@H with it if I can get it running.

 

[slebidia]

I've got a laptop with a dead IDE Header. The CD works (mostly) but HDs are a no go. What can I do to get this little guy running? I'll fold UD or F@H with it if I can get it running.

I've been wondering how to set this up as well. The problem would be losing the data on a reboot. Maybe you could set it up to save to a flashcard?

 

[poddo]

If you have another tower laying around, you could set that up as a "fold server" (search the forum for it), and then it would save all the data to that HD. It does require a fairly complexlinux installation though. Otherwise, I beleive I may have seen somewhere around here about running it off of a thumb drive. Maybe get the linux version of FAH, boot into knoppix, and then run the client off the thumbdrive?

 

[unhappy_mage]

pcmcia ide card, maybe? would it boot off usb or firewire external devices?

 

[embries]

might be able to get it to boot off a usb hard drive, but I wouldn't want to leave the hard drive. And for as old as this laptop is, I wouldn't want to buy a usb drive for it.

 

[SpoogeMonkey]

I know you can run linux from a cd image, but not sure if it still uses a hd for temp caching of files and such. If it doesn't, boot up a cd image, d/l f@h, and fold away on the thumbdrive.