I got bored...so I loaded Suse on my new quad

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relic

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So what could be better than doing a network install (over the internet) of 64-bit Suse 10.3 on a new Q6600-equipped shuttle sp35p2pro?


Yes I'm a relative noob when it comes to linux,
yes drivers can be a PITA on proprietary hardware
yes a network install isn't the best way for a noob to do an install, doing it from an internet repository doesn't make it easier. But I didn't have enough CDRs at the office to do a CD install.

...and yes it is folding, dunno what else it can do, but it seems to fold fine. ;)

Yes, I know I could have just run from a CD or thumbdrive with a preconfigured distro, but where's the fun it that?

To be honest, even though it seems like I picked a "designed to be trouble" install it was painless and suprisingly easy, although definately slow. (Took 6 hours to download the distro, addins and patches)

Am I a guru now? ;)
 
that's relic with a lower case "r"
I never earned the capital. ;)
 
relic said:
I got bored...so I loaded Suse on my new quad !!!

Am I a guru now?

;)
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Wow!


Sounds really nasty to me! Dang! Guru? Sure! ;)

Is Suse your mistress, girlfriend, or your wife?
 
Wifey's so [H]ot I don't want a mistress.
I'm sure she'll come to the next [H]ard swap meet.....tradition has it in O[H]io...who's game?
 
relic said:
that's relic with a lower case "r"
I never earned the capital. ;)
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Its high time we fix this travesty of justice. I hereby call for a movement to get relic his "R"

And welcome to the dark side relic. Once you go linux you never go back, or something like that.

 
relic said:
So what could be better than doing a network install (over the internet) of 64-bit Suse 10.3 on a new Q6600-equipped shuttle sp35p2pro?


Yes I'm a relative noob when it comes to linux,
yes drivers can be a PITA on proprietary hardware
yes a network install isn't the best way for a noob to do an install, doing it from an internet repository doesn't make it easier. But I didn't have enough CDRs at the office to do a CD install.

...and yes it is folding, dunno what else it can do, but it seems to fold fine. ;)

Yes, I know I could have just run from a CD or thumbdrive with a preconfigured distro, but where's the fun it that?

To be honest, even though it seems like I picked a "designed to be trouble" install it was painless and suprisingly easy, although definately slow. (Took 6 hours to download the distro, addins and patches)

Am I a guru now? ;)
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Six hours? Ouch! :eek:

Glad I have a DVD burner and a decent net connection. Usually doesn't take me much time to download the DVD ISO even if it is a bit under 4 gig if I remember correctly. Download DVD, burn ISO, install openSUSE, download all the updates and I still clock in at less time.

relic, you really need to work on your Linux installs as you are taking too long. :p Of course, it would probably help if you had some alcohol in you before you start. I know it helps me. :cool:

 
SmokeRngs said:
Six hours? Ouch! :eek:

Glad I have a DVD burner and a decent net connection. Usually doesn't take me much time to download the DVD ISO even if it is a bit under 4 gig if I remember correctly. Download DVD, burn ISO, install openSUSE, download all the updates and I still clock in at less time.

relic, you really need to work on your Linux installs as you are taking too long. :p Of course, it would probably help if you had some alcohol in you before you start. I know it helps me. :cool:
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Hehe, I have a 10MB layer 2 fiber connection.
The servers are all bandwidth restricted. If you know of an unrestricted mirror, please share. ;)
 
relic said:
Hehe, I have a 10MB layer 2 fiber connection.
The servers are all bandwidth restricted. If you know of an unrestricted mirror, please share. ;)
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I normally use torrents for my downloads of Linux OSes just because I'm nice that way. I usually max out my 8 mbit connection doing it. I did download openSUSE from either http or ftp one time and I was close to maxing out my connection so I'm not sure what your problem was. I think it was just you. :p

 
SmokeRngs said:
I normally use torrents for my downloads of Linux OSes just because I'm nice that way. I usually max out my 8 mbit connection doing it. I did download openSUSE from either http or ftp one time and I was close to maxing out my connection so I'm not sure what your problem was. I think it was just you. :p

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I won't use torrents until they ban stolen software. ;)
I don't support thieves.

Sorry to say I downloaded directly from the openSUSE.org website, after cancelling serveral horribly US slow mirrors.....Slower that MS updates by an order of magnitude, but still pretty cool software.
 
relic said:
I won't use torrents until they ban stolen software. ;)
I don't support thieves.

Sorry to say I downloaded directly from the openSUSE.org website, after cancelling serveral horribly US slow mirrors.....Slower that MS updates by an order of magnitude, but still pretty cool software.
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Bittorrent is still a useful tool, no matter what some knuckleheads choose to use it for. Its still THE way to grab a linux distro.

And due to its decentralized nature, there is no "they" to ban anything.
 
relic said:
Wifey's so [H]ot I don't want a mistress.
I'm sure she'll come to the next [H]ard swap meet.....tradition has it in O[H]io...who's game?
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Where in Ohio! I live right on the river on the eastern side of the state.

I'm so down!

 
Kendrak said:
Where in Ohio! I live right on the river on the eastern side of the state.

I'm so down!

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Does nobody know how to use the user profile feature? :D

And Ohio sucks. That is all. :rolleyes:

 
alan2308 said:
Does nobody know how to use the user profile feature? :D

And Ohio sucks. That is all. :rolleyes:

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Ohio what?!?

Just because I live 2 miles away from middle of nowhere, there is little else to do but read, watch a Netflix movie, or my wife, and it smells funny (cows and the river) doesn't mean that it sucks.

I'm just glad I don't live in Michigan :p

 
I have to give a shout out for Ohio. I'm a bit downstream in Cincinnati, thought out-of-state at the moment, trying desperately to finish up my final papers to graduate at the end of the month. But, I just had to buy a quad, and had to install 10 flavors of Linux on it to find the most efficient one, and had to water cool it, and these things had to have a higher priority than my school work all semester.

Despite my present school-related misery, I take nothing back. Computer hardware software is a ton of fun, and I firmly believe I'm applying it to good causes. Folding for cures.
 
relic said:
So what could be better than doing a network install (over the internet) of 64-bit Suse 10.3 on a new Q6600-equipped shuttle sp35p2pro?
/snip
Am I a guru now? ;)
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Mr relic, I hope this question is not completely "off topic" and only in the "gray" areas of the original thread. (at least I am talkin' about Linux :rolleyes:)

I have a E6600 cpu, under water, OC'ed to 3.0 GHz in a GA-G31M-S2L board. It has a full hard drive install of Ubuntu v8.04 64 bit (from a store bought disk). What I was wondering I have no patients at all about waiting on another board, can I simply switch the chips (E6600 to a Q6600) and continue to fold the WU the E6600 was working on? Are there some things that require a computer guru to do (obviously I'm still workin' on bein' a computer guru fledgeling) Then depending on how far I can get the Q6600 to OC' (I just want 3.0 GHz or 3.2 GHz) I might just put the E6600 in the Abit IP35-E board I have comin' by a slow boat from only God knows (grounder shipping) and "pine" away for another Q6600. (always thinkin' more powa')
:p

The above scenario sounds copacetic to me, but then again I don't have your experience or knowledge at folding or of computers. :)

Please anyone give me some advice.

 
jws2346 said:
Mr relic, I hope this question is not completely "off topic" and only in the "gray" areas of the original thread. (at least I am talkin' about Linux :rolleyes:)

I have a E6600 cpu, under water, OC'ed to 3.0 GHz in a GA-G31M-S2L board. It has a full hard drive install of Ubuntu v8.04 64 bit (from a store bought disk). What I was wondering I have no patients at all about waiting on another board, can I simply switch the chips (E6600 to a Q6600) and continue to fold the WU the E6600 was working on? Are there some things that require a computer guru to do (obviously I'm still workin' on bein' a computer guru fledgeling) Then depending on how far I can get the Q6600 to OC' (I just want 3.0 GHz or 3.2 GHz) I might just put the E6600 in the Abit IP35-E board I have comin' by a slow boat from only God knows (grounder shipping) and "pine" away for another Q6600. (always thinkin' more powa')
:p

The above scenario sounds copacetic to me, but then again I don't have your experience or knowledge at folding or of computers. :)

Please anyone give me some advice.

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You shouldn't see any problems with that. I've moved WU's to completely different computers successfully and Linux is not very picky about hardware changes.
 
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