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Help Getting Folding to Work in Linux

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Hito Bahadur

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Okay,

I took the plung and am loading a new box with Linux (Debian Distro). As stated in many previous threads, I'm a Linux n00b. Unhappy Mage, you probably can help..... maybe others out there....

That box is still internet challenged (see my thread on my new farm area) for at least the next few days, so I am hoping to have some help in using a USB Flash drive to download a WU on a windows machine and get it running on the Debian distro.

Maybe I should have just loaded Windows 2000 but I've been wanting to do this for a long time.... and I have another new box (see Hot Deals on Dell SC420 server) that I might use Linux on if I can figure this one out.

Sorry, long winded for me, but I hate not knowing what I am doing.
 
So have you got it installed yet? or do you need help with that part? If you do need help, I may be able to help, but my experience is mostly with redhat, gentoo, or my own stuff. Gentoo is debian based, so it may be close enough to give specific information, but maybe not.

Getting folding going is a matter of a) installing it, and b) getting it to run every time.

A is easy, b not so. For A, just download the client, put it somewhere (/opt/foldingathome, /home/hito/folding, wherever) and run it with -configonly to generate a config file.

For B, it depends what system manages the rc files. These are files, usually in /etc/init.d, which tell Linux what to start, how to start it, etc. The two I know about are rc-update and chkconfig. For rc-update, run "rc-update add folding default"; for chkconfig, "chkconfig folding on". You'll have to create a file in /etc/init.d called folding, and...

On second thought, try finstall and see how that goes. Haven't used it, but it looks like it'll work okay.

Sorry, I tend to assume a lot of self-proclaimed n00bs. I used to be one. :rolleyes:
 
First,

How do I mount a USB Flash Drive?

P.S. I'm near the finish of my install.
 
Hito Bahadur said:
First,

How do I mount a USB Flash Drive?

P.S. I'm near the finish of my install.
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Okay, just logged in to root.
 
Okay dual boot for now. I don't want to give up the folding time while I fuddle around.
 
Hito Bahadur said:
How do I mount a USB Flash Drive?
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Plug it in; you'll probably get a message like "usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2", and then try mounting /dev/sda on /mnt/wherever. If you have SATA or SCSI disks, it won't be sda, but something higher like sdb or sdc. I haven't used usb in combination with these, but cdrecord -scanbus will show you what's on the scsi bus.
 
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