RC5 Linux bootdisk?

[IPLaw]

Hi,
When I run the distributed.net RC5 client (W2K), even when set to buffer to memory, my hdd will never power down. I don't mind running my cpu 24/7, but I am worried about my disk. Does anyone have a linux bootdisk / RC5 client which could boot, power down the disk, and then lauch the linux distributed.net client? I know it's feasible, but I don't have the linux knowledge.

Thanks

 

[Adul]

there is one actually made by kilowatt. it is used in the crack racks.

 

[IJump]

Klinux - The world's best single floppy linux distro.


That should do what you are looking for.

 

[IPLaw]

Perfect!


Thanks!

 

[Karsten]

Now the big question... is there one that does SETI?

 

[Orange Kid]

Two disk set

This or something similar is the best that can be done with Seti due to the wu size and disk access needed I believe

 

[Karsten]

OK... if I make this work... I will increase my output over the weekends GREATLY!

Very cool!

 

[Postman]

If you have one linux box available in the network, making crunchers use it as storage is pretty trivial. That way, you can boot a cruncher with floppy (<10 seconds or so), remove the floppy and just set the box to reboot at monday 6AM via cron, and voila it boots to it's original OS from hdd.

Automation is the king.

 

[Karsten]

Postman... for the Linux handicaped. Can you elaborate on that? Is there a command to automaticaly reset a computer?

 

[Postman]

try 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r now' and just put it to your cron (task scheduler). man cron, man crontab.

 

[Zim Hosein]

<< try 'reboot' or 'shutdown -r now' and just put it to your cron (task scheduler). man cron, man crontab. >>



You lost me 100% Postman

 

[Postman]

<< You lost me 100% Postman >>



Nickname: Zim Hosein
Country: United States

Figures.. Look, in lun1x computers, there is a command prompt hidden there somewhere (you know the thing with something like :~#), try typing "reboot" or "shutdown" and behold as the magic unravels. Similarly typing "man crontab" will reveal closely guarded secrets about automating tasks.

Yes I'm pretty pissed about yet again seeing all the threads being crapped with useless comments by some dude who just wants to raise his postcount. This forum would be so much better without postcounts being visible and moderators being non-anonmymous.

-grumpy old postman

 

[Zim Hosein]

<< << You lost me 100% Postman >>

Nickname: Zim Hosein
Country: United States

Figures.. Look, in lun1x computers, there is a command prompt hidden there somewhere (you know the thing with something like :~#), try typing "reboot" or "shutdown" and behold as the magic unravels. Similarly typing "man crontab" will reveal closely guarded secrets about automating tasks.

Yes I'm pretty pissed about yet again seeing all the threads being crapped with useless comments by some dude who just wants to raise his postcount. This forum would be so much better without postcounts being visible and moderators being non-anonmymous.
>>



Postman, I'm not trying to "raise" my postcount, if I wanted to do that I could spend my time in OT or posting "bumps" in FS/FT. I made this post because I'm not a "linux" person, but I am willing to learn as when I upgrade my current rig, I plan on having a partition to run linux on. Just because I do not currently run linux, doesn't mean I cannot learn for the future or save info that may be relevant. In no way was my post negate towards you as it has not been edited and anyone can see this. As for me living in the US, you point would be? I'm no expert in the field of computers, but do not talk down to me because I live in so and so country. Thank you for your time.

 

[Postman]

Fair enough about linux, if you're ever really interested, come to TA irc on #linux. Personally I don't think Linux is good for workstation use but I'm sure there are others there who disagree

And about posting, when I checked the forums, the whole first page and bit of second was filled with threads having oneliners as last reply from you.

 

[Karsten]

Hey Postman. Do you have any exp. using that Boot Disk?
I wished they had a step by step guide for the linux handicaped!

 

[Postman]

Have you read the setup page in KLinux home? What kind of problems you have?

And no I don't really use it, my crack rack uses diskless nodes booting from central server. Nodes mount network drive from server use that instead of floppy.

 

[Ken g6]

I've been using KLinux with SETI for about a year. I put these batches, the seti gnulibc1_static binary, and my work_unit.sah file on an ms-dos floppy. The I boot into KLinux and at the prompt type:

mount /mnt/floppy
/mnt/floppy/i
/seti

and it runs! I've been using a newer version for my machines, because people can stick hard drives in them and use them at any time, but this should work for you. I can send you a copy of the sleep program if you need to have it shutdown automatically (klinux has very few programs). You can then just type "sleep xxx; reboot". But only my newer version will save the WU before rebooting.

 

[Karsten]

Hi again,
Back from a very busy workweek and homelife.

Anyhow I would still like this to work, but I have quite a bit of trouble with it.
I can create the disks and it boots just fine. However then it askes me for my seti Login.... which shold be seti@pcpc.net
Well.. for the life of me I can not remeber what the password is. Then it times out while I am trying to figure this out and I am at a admin login and can't get to anything that says seti anmore at all. Sometime I can't even type the "@" in my e-mail address.

Has anybody tried this? Is there a FAQ anywhere, or at least some limited instructions?

Thanks especialy to postman for taken the time to answer!