F@H on Knoppix

[PhreakinSyco]

I want to get a computer up and folding. I have everything to hook it up except a HD. I have knoppix. I have used it (kinda) before.

My only question is how do I get F@H to run on a system with only a CD-ROM? Do I just run the core off one of my other machines on the LAN? If I do this will it start the thread on the Knoppix CPU or the one I accesed F@H on?

Help me get this thing up!

FreakinSyco

[Kendan]

It creates a ram drive which the computer thinks is a harddrive. you just have to have that computer so it can connect to the net and you should be all good. Just be aware when you turn the computer off it forgets everything. You can 8use a small thumbdrive and make a consistent home dir which will save it to that.

Just make sure you use the fah config script so you are folding under your name rather than OC3d unless of course you want to fold for OC3d ;)


Edit: I was speaking about Overclockix not the regular knoppix. Overclockix starts folding by default. Here is a link to it:
http://overclockix.octeams.com/

[Arkaine23]

From ordinary knoppix there are a couple of ways to go about it-

1) Fold from the ramdisk
a. download the linux folding client to /home/knoppix
b. chmod +x /home/knoppix/FAH4Console-Linux.exe
c. cd /home/knoppix
d. ./FAH4Console-Linux.exe -advmethods -forcesse
e. you could create a persistent home if you ahve a hard drive or usb pen, and your folding progress would be saved across a rebot.

2) Fold from a windows hard drive on another computer
On windows-
a. download the Linux folding client on a windows computer and save it in a shared drive/folder
b. Create a user called knoppix on the windows box, and set a password
On Knoppix-
c. mkdir /home/knoppix/Desktop/fold
d. smbmount //hostname/sharename /home/knoppix/Desktop/fold -o username=knoppix
(you'll be prompted to enter knoppix's password)
e. cd /home/knoppix/Desktop/fold
f. chmod +x FAH4Console-Linux.exe
g. ./FAH4Console-Linux.exe -advmethods -forcesse
h. Your folding directory exists on a windows hard drive, so you can monitor it with EM3, and it will still exist even if you reboot the Knoppix machine. However folding is dependent on both your knoppix box and your windows box, so a problem or reboot on either one could cause folding to stop.

To resume if you do reboot knoppix, you'd need to redo steps c, d, e, and g. To resume if you reboot the windows box that is serving the folding directory, you'd need to redo steps d, e, and g.

//hostname/sharename = this is the same as it would be mapping the drive on windows, hostname = the name of the computer, and sharename = the name of the share.