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Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:34 am
by DTHCND
I was jus thinking Folding might be faster if it was bootable and didn't have Windows/Linux/Apple processes running in the background... So I decided to google, bootable folding@home... And I came across this
http://www.hardfolding.com/index.php?p= ... =15&show=1, has anyone tried this??? I am also unsure whether it boots off the USB or CD, or if it just erases the whole HDD and uses the USB/CD as an install base? If anyone could clarify, maybe give there opinions... I'm going to continue to google this... I don't think I am going to try this anyways...
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:17 am
by bruce
Folding@home is an application that runs in Windows/Linux/MacOS/PS3-os so one of them must be present. The closest you'll come to a bootable version of FAH is any one of several combinations of an extremely lean version of Linux plus FAH. The link that you referenced, in fact, is one of them, installing both Linux and FAH to a bootable CD. I've used a couple of them and they certainly have their place, if that's what you're looking for. You can find more information here in our 3rd party forum. Check the "Tools List"
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:55 pm
by DTHCND
Ok thanks... I might give it a try... See how fast it is...
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:07 pm
by toTOW
You can also look for notfred's folding CD ...
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:25 pm
by DTHCND
Ok thanks... I'm actually going to look for it, bacause my BIOS says it supports USB, but it doesn't want to boot it... Screen just goes blank, so might try CD... Just to make sure it won't effect any of the OSs on my HDD will it?
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:25 pm
by DTHCND
I tried it out in a VM, and put the wrong gateway... I fixed that now, but while the console was frozen, I noticed it was attempting to download version 6.02... If I am right it would prolly just be searching for WUs and not find any... How do I get it to download 6.29?
Re: Bootable Folding@Home?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:45 pm
by bollix47
Assuming you're using a USB stick for backup:
1. Download the 6.29 linux console client
2. Copy fah6 to the USB stick into \folding\1 ... if that tree stucture doesn't already exist then create it
When notfred starts up it restores the backup folder from the USB stick to memory and when it tries to link to the downloaded 6.02 it will fail and use 6.29