dual boot - linux + windows

[tmillic]

I regularly use Linux and fold on it. I use Windows when I don't have to do anything productive. All documents, regardless of which OS, are on a file server. I haven't folded on Windows in months because it's not often used, but would it be possible for it to run the work in the same folder that I fold from under Linux when I am on Windows? I haven't got a clue how I would start it or if it can be configured to do so .

[7im]

It's possible, can be a pain to setup. I've seen a few threads discuss this before. Try the forum search.

[toTOW]

Windows and Linux work file are not compatible ... you can't share them between two different OSes

But you could run the Windows client under Linux (wine) from a shared location ... or run the linux client in a Linux VM under Windows ... but that will probably be hard to setup

[tmillic]

OK. Thanks.

[v00d00]

Its fairly easy using wine.

You simply need a folding directory in your .wine/drive_c/ directory.
Some sort of script to get it started and keep it going if it ever crashes.

Beyond that it will just do what it does.

A script example that can be cron'd using crontab.

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#!/bin/sh

fah6dir="/home/myuser/.wine/drive_c/winfold1"
process=`ps auxw | grep fah6-1.exe | grep -v grep | awk '{print $11}'`

if [ -z "$process" ]; then

  echo "Couldn't find FAH5 running, restarting it."
  cd "$fah6dir"
  nohup screen -DmS winfold1 taskset -c 01 wine fah6-1.exe -forceasm -verbosity 9 -local &
  echo ""

fi

Remove "taskset -c 01" if you arent using a dual or quad core. Its there to just run that process on cpu 1 instead of cpu 0, leaving the first cpu to deal with any system processes and anything you use normally.

With regard crontab, type the following into a xterm before you issue the command: crontab -e. Change nano for the name of your fav text editor, unless you use vim normally, in which case dont bother with the editor line.

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export EDITOR=nano

Now do a crontab -e and set it to run the script how you want it. I tend to use:

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0-59 * * * * /path/to/script