Floppy Disk OS for crunching?

[BCinSC]

I could save a TON of power by not running the 30 odd hard drives I've got.

 

[Crazee]

There are some people who have gotten Seti to crunch from a floppy. I don't think a lot of other projects would. Depending on the size of the client, you might want to consider a USB flash drive. On a lot of motherboards now you can boot from them and they have enough storage to put a decent sized client on them.

 

[BofRA]

Another option is to use Knoppix. It is a CD based Linux version that loads everything into a Ramdisk.

A link for it is here.

Also for SETI there is FreeSCO SEti Cruncher. It is a Floppy based Linux SETI package.

It can be found here.

And then there is the diskless cruncher called the Prime/SETI Monster. It uses netboot to load up OS into ram.

It can be found here.

 

[BadThad]

You really have to run a ram drive. Most DC projects will access the disk too much and really slow down your processing time. However, if the power goes out...well..you know...lol.

 

[BCinSC]

Fully protected by large UPS. Plenty of RAM to put it all in memory. How does PXE work and could I do that instead and load Windows?

 

[BofRA]

I am pretty sure PXE will only work with Linux. Windows is too much to load up into memory. I know win98 was stripped down and attempted that way don't think it every worked. I will see if I can find the link to it.

Ok found the link. Here it is: Diskless windows crunchers

 

[BCinSC]

That ROCKS!!!