Posts by Billfred

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Problems with wget? (Message 178312)
Posted 14 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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I'm running Debian 3.1 on a 733 MHz PIII, and I was attempting to get BOINC on it. I ran the command wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_4.43_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh, but it came back 404. I went back and checked, and the URL checks out, so I tried retyping it. Still no luck.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Good starting Linux distro for BOINCage? (Message 178073)
Posted 14 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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To get the current version of BOINC for linux all you have to do is get to a prompt and type "wget http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_4.43_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh". There is also links, lynx and links2 which are all completely text-based web browsers. wget and one of the broswers should be in the base system install of just about any distro.

Good luck :)

Well, I got the latest version of debian on one of my machines, and tried the exact command as seen above. It's coming back error 404, which is perplexing, as I can see on my iBook that it's a valid link. I tried several other Linux versions of the BOINC client, all with the same result.

Is there any outside thing that may cause this?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Good starting Linux distro for BOINCage? (Message 175855)
Posted 9 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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DSL does appear to be slightly more up my alley than the Knoppix-based devices I've been using, if for no other reason than decreased memory requirements. Is it hard to add BOINC to the mix?

Two other questions come to mind. First, is it possible to use BOINC Manager to connect to (and thus control BOINC on) other boxes? If I can just get on one PC and tell the others to do this or that, it'd save a lot of cable-switching. (We've only got one DKM.)

Finally, how hard is it to put together a Linux live CD? Eventually, the goal is to turn these beige boxes into a stack, and the fewer things that have to go in the stack, the fewer things I have to figure out how to stack. ;)

Thanks again--I'm almost afraid I'm learning more on this board than I am in classes!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Good starting Linux distro for BOINCage? (Message 175655)
Posted 9 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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Debian can be easily set up to run in text mode only, but he'll need some assistance to do so.

Regards Hans


Text mode is fine (I mourn the decreasing ability to get to a DOS prompt in Windows), so long as I can figure out what the heck I'm doing (and perhaps more importantly, teach it to the next guy when that time comes. I'm keeping on the four-year plan if it kills me.)

Although if X (and thus most GUIs) are to be avoided, what's the best bet for getting to the web sites one must get to for such pesky little things as downloading BOINC?

Thanks!
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Good starting Linux distro for BOINCage? (Message 175570)
Posted 8 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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My residence hall at USC (That's the USC--the University of South Carolina) is putting together a SETI stack based off some old boxes that were lying around campus. (Granted, they were at Inventory, but they were still lying around.)

All of them can either boot to Windows or Overclockix (a Knoppix CD with BOINC and a few other goodies baked in). I'd be fine booting them to Windows, except that computer services requires several fiery hoops to be jumped through before Windows boxes get on the network. Since I'm looking for low maintenance, Linux seems the obvious choice.

The problem is, my skill level with Linux is about one notch above n00b. I understand some of the basic concepts (GUIs on servers are evil, don't run as root unless you have to, don't be an idiot with your root password, etc). The computers are mostly PIIs and PIIIs, all with about 128 MB of RAM, and perhaps two gigs of hard drive space.

Can anyone recommend a good distro to start out with?

Thanks!
6) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Setting a true backup project? (Message 175012)
Posted 7 Oct 2005 by Profile Billfred
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I'm a big fan of SETI, and while I get the beauty of the BOINC infrastructure is that one can run fifteen different projects at once, I'd prefer to stick with SETI whenever possible.

That said, I know there's times when there's no work available for SETI, at which point I don't mind working for other projects. Is there any way to set a different BOINC project to only work when it can't get work from SETI?

Thanks!





 
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