I can't seem to install the file onto the computer. I first had trouble unstuffing the file now I still can't get it to work. I tried to use Terminal but it makes me feel like I'm new to computers.
What ever happened to click and drag?

Hi Quinn,

Welcome to the world of the arcane - UNIX.

Here is what worked for me:

Drag your BOINC file into your Applications folder.

Fire up Terminal, type in CD /
to get to the root directory on your machine.

Type in cd Ap[tab] so that UNIX will fill in the rest of the Applications directory name, this gets you to your Applications directory.

Type in ls -la to see the directory contents. You should see your "boinc" application. You would think that just typing in the name of the application would cause it to run, it doesn't work that way. First you you have to set the permissions correctly. Use this command to do so:

chmod +x boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin

All you really have to do is type in chmod =X boi[tab] and Unix will fill in the rest of the command for you.

Then to execute Boinc, type in:

./boi[tab]

and you will get a bunch of info back in the terminal window. If everything goes well, you will get a work unit and you will be up and running. (After 3 weeks of farting around with this, I have yet to get a work unit delivered.)

To stop BOINC type ctrl-c

To start BOINC up again, type ./boi[tab]

Hope that helps!

Getting your settings so that SETI will actually give your copy of BOINC work to do is a different matter. In the SETI web interface: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ where you go to edit and set your preferences I have done the following: Use no more than 3GB or disk space, Use no more than 5% total disk space, Leave at least 1GB of disk space, keep work on the machine for .1 to .3 days work. I have an 80GB hard drive (74.5GB after formatting) with 26GB of free space. I'm running on a 1.25GHz PowerBook with OS X 10.3.4. These settings and about 50 other combinations have never worked for me on my PowerBook, so I don't know if it is a problem in the settings or if SETI just flat doesn't work with PowerBooks of my model.

If you get this beast installed, good luck on getting it to do anything for you!

Paul

> Hi Quinn,
>
> Welcome to the world of the arcane - UNIX.
>
> Here is what worked for me:
>
> Drag your BOINC file into your Applications folder.
>
> Fire up Terminal, type in CD /
> to get to the root directory on your machine.
>
> Type in cd Ap[tab] so that UNIX will fill in the rest of the Applications
> directory name, this gets you to your Applications directory.
>
> Type in ls -la to see the directory contents. You should see your "boinc"
> application. You would think that just typing in the name of the application
> would cause it to run, it doesn't work that way. First you you have to set
> the permissions correctly. Use this command to do so:
>
> chmod +x boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin
>
> All you really have to do is type in chmod =X boi[tab] and Unix will fill in
> the rest of the command for you.
>
> Then to execute Boinc, type in:
>
> ./boi[tab]
>
> and you will get a bunch of info back in the terminal window. If everything
> goes well, you will get a work unit and you will be up and running. (After 3
> weeks of farting around with this, I have yet to get a work unit delivered.)
>
> To stop BOINC type ctrl-c
>
> To start BOINC up again, type ./boi[tab]
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Getting your settings so that SETI will actually give your copy of BOINC work
> to do is a different matter. In the SETI web interface:
> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ where you go to edit and set your preferences
> I have done the following: Use no more than 3GB or disk space, Use no more
> than 5% total disk space, Leave at least 1GB of disk space, keep work on the
> machine for .1 to .3 days work. I have an 80GB hard drive (74.5GB after
> formatting) with 26GB of free space. I'm running on a 1.25GHz PowerBook with
> OS X 10.3.4. These settings and about 50 other combinations have never worked
> for me on my PowerBook, so I don't know if it is a problem in the settings or
> if SETI just flat doesn't work with PowerBooks of my model.
>
> If you get this beast installed, good luck on getting it to do anything for
> you!
>
> Paul
>
Paul it looks like the setings you have set will not give you anything. You should change them to,

use no more than 60 gig
leave at least .1gig
.1 to 3 days (not .3 days because it will take more than .3 days to do one WU)
80% total disk space.
Then wait for the computer to contact the server and get the new settings then this should work.
Dave

> Hi Quinn,
>
> Welcome to the world of the arcane - UNIX.
>
> Here is what worked for me:
>
> Drag your BOINC file into your Applications folder.
>
> Fire up Terminal, type in CD /
> to get to the root directory on your machine.
>
> Type in cd Ap[tab] so that UNIX will fill in the rest of the Applications
> directory name, this gets you to your Applications directory.
>
> Type in ls -la to see the directory contents. You should see your "boinc"
> application. You would think that just typing in the name of the application
> would cause it to run, it doesn't work that way. First you you have to set
> the permissions correctly. Use this command to do so:
>
> chmod +x boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin
>
> All you really have to do is type in chmod =X boi[tab] and Unix will fill in
> the rest of the command for you.
>
> Then to execute Boinc, type in:
>
> ./boi[tab]
>
> and you will get a bunch of info back in the terminal window. If everything
> goes well, you will get a work unit and you will be up and running. (After 3
> weeks of farting around with this, I have yet to get a work unit delivered.)
>
> To stop BOINC type ctrl-c
>
> To start BOINC up again, type ./boi[tab]
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Getting your settings so that SETI will actually give your copy of BOINC work
> to do is a different matter. In the SETI web interface:
> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ where you go to edit and set your preferences
> I have done the following: Use no more than 3GB or disk space, Use no more
> than 5% total disk space, Leave at least 1GB of disk space, keep work on the
> machine for .1 to .3 days work. I have an 80GB hard drive (74.5GB after
> formatting) with 26GB of free space. I'm running on a 1.25GHz PowerBook with
> OS X 10.3.4. These settings and about 50 other combinations have never worked
> for me on my PowerBook, so I don't know if it is a problem in the settings or
> if SETI just flat doesn't work with PowerBooks of my model.
>
> If you get this beast installed, good luck on getting it to do anything for
> you!
>
> Paul


I would also suggest instead of only chmod +x boi(tab) use chmod u+x boi(tab) seems to work better that way for most that i have talked with..
Matt

The settings Dave suggested are working on my machine. It isn't clear from the manual and other posts exactly how these settings interact with the used and available space on the client disk, but at least I have a working combination and can quit experimenting around with settings.


So Boinc/Seti is now running in spurts as work units are available and as the schedulers go up and down on the server side.