First off I will admit i'm not a bit Linux guy but I've got a few old 500 Mhz machines floating around that would make great Seti processors, I do have some really small harddrives (500 MB - 2000 MB) and would like some help/pointers on where I can get a watered down version of Linux to load onto them and if its possbile to run just the command line version of BOINC using said watered down versions of Linux
Any help would be GREATLY Appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Hi,

after the last few days without work I finally got some units and got my CPU busy again. A little bit too busy.

I updated my boinc-client to boinc_5.8.17_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and my S@H-client to KWSN-R2.2B-64bit-SSE2-generic. Starting is done via init-script and start-stop-manager on a Gentoo Linux box.
No matter what how I start the Boinc-Client, via script or directly on the console I get the following behaviour:
In the script a nicelevel of 19 is set and the Boinc-Client perfectly starts up with that level. But the S@H-client simply seems to ignore this and starts with level 0. When I manually set it to 19 it "resets" itself to 0 on the next WU.
I couldn't find anything why the client behaves that way. The old client I had (5.1* as far as I remember) started the S@H-client with the same nice-level I defined for himself.

Can someone give me a hint where to search or how to solve it? Please don't refer to google and RTFM... I already searched there. ;)

Thanks so far
Loci