Now testing Overclockix 3.7

[Arkaine23]

Made a new Overclockix release out of Knoppix 3.7. It launches two folding clients automatically using wine. Has its own software firewall, captive-NTFS, animated bootsplash screen, and the usual Knoppix goodies, keeps some of the previous package selection from older Overclockix releases, uses 2.4.27 or 2.6.7 kernels, just a little less tinkering on the interface from previous releases. I upgraded the software to Debian unstable so its the latest. It also has the LTSP functionality of Overclockix_LTSP v2.1, although I have not yet tested the HDD-installer or LTSP server. Debuting some new superkaramba themes as well.

Will be getting it up to the OCix host soon for all to try. I'm hoping that non-folders who use it will help give our team a nice boost during the period of initial release mania.

http://overclockix.octeams.com/snapshot30.jpg

[Audioaficionado]

Great job Troy. Looking forward to burning a copy. Bittorrent client as usual for downloads?

BTW are you still on Yopper's dev team?

[Arkaine23]

Yeah, I just got back in contact with the Yoper crew. Still helping on in limited ways. The more work I do on Knoppix, the more byproducts I have to turn over to Yoper.

BT as usual. But I may find some alternate mirrors for http and ftp. I want to make this a big deal and get distrowatched, so the folding team will get some moderately unscrupulous boostage. Will probably be a few days before I give out the link. I want to track down bugs BEFORE releasing for a change.

Edit: Heheh, the processes don't show using the CPU in top except for the load average. In the pic you can see the top processes, but neither folding nor wine are showing. Yet the load average and superK theme indicate my duallie is going full steam with two clients. Cool, the snapshot actually captured my cursor for a change. ;)

[matrixzen]

Looks really promising. It'll be something I'll have to use on my cluster. Whenever that gets finished.

[Arkaine23]

I was actually looking into parallel knoppix to make a cluster solution. Should be better than mosix-based clusterknoppix. SMP should work for one which mosix doesn't seem to do, and any multi-thread app should benefit greatly.

http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/ParallelKnoppix/

[matrixzen]

I've yet to see anybody make a cluster that uses duallys or a P4 based cluster. A cluster using SMP for each layer would PWN in PPD!! I'm sure there are people with the desire to do it, so this will be a revolution!! :clap:

[Arkaine23]

I need someone to test this thing. Like to make sure the hdd-installer works and to try to boot a single client machine via PXE after running the terminal server. If would help if you actually understand what I'm talking about or have used this sort of software before. I can probably scrounge around and get enough test equipment to try it myself, but that might delay the release by a day or two.

Edit: In fact, I think I've got a test box I can install it on.....

[Audioaficionado]

I need someone to test this thing. Like to make sure the hdd-installer works and to try to boot a single client machine via PXE after running the terminal server. If would help if you actually understand what I'm talking about or have used this sort of software before. I can probably scrounge around and get enough test equipment to try it myself, but that might delay the release by a day or two.

Edit: In fact, I think I've got a test box I can install it on.....I understand what you're saying but I still don't know how yet :p

[Arkaine23]

Install went smoothly using Debian style on a flexatx P3 800 box w/ 192mb ram. Terminal server seems to work fine, just didn't have a PXE-bootable client to test. No major bugs that I've found yet, so its up for anyone who wants it. Do remember that you need a bittorrent client to get it, and try to help seed for others. As always donations are welcome, and if the donate button's default $5 is too expensive or to poor for your blood, by all means head to paypal on your own and donate whatever you feel like to teh same email addy indicated on by the donate button.

Overclockix 3.7 is offically released at http://overclockix.octeams.com

[Audioaficionado]

I've got it downloading and seeding. I'll have to break in my NEC 3500AG and see how it burns CD/Ws.

[fireburster]

I got it going on my 266 pII dell laptop for now. I will try hdd install and play around with this more at work. I miss the button with the overclockix stuff in it. foldoff worked though as this machine is way to slow to fold.

Ill try gnome in it tomorrow if thats still there.

[fireburster]

Do i have to do a hdd install for the ltsp server?

[Arkaine23]

Yes.

It folds with 2 clients as a live CD. Or you can install it (debian style) and launch the terminal server. Keep the username knoppix.

To disable 1 instance live or installed.

foldoff
rm -rf /home/knoppix/FAH/server2
winefold

To configure your username and team edit-

/home/knoppix/FAH/server/client.cfg and /home/knoppix/FAH/server2/client.cfg

Then run the winefold command to restart folding.

To change flags used by the client(s), edit-

/home/knoppix/FAH/server/flags and /home/knoppix/FAH/server2/flags

Then run the winefold command.

[fireburster]

I got knoppix style installed fine other then i hate and cant understand qparted. I got the terminal server installed and one client booted. How can i tell that its folding again?

wine is all new for me also. What is the command your talking about? I used to just do cfgfold and go.

edit. I just found how to do the vncserver in konsole but that didnt work. I went into the FAH/server/FAHLog.txt and see its folding but i dont have net on that pc so its sitting there.

[Arkaine23]

You should see the folding directory for the client in /home/knoppix/FAH/### where ### is the last 3 digits of the IP address of the client machine. If its not there but the client machine did boot, then most likely it was not booted in text mode or for some reason its folding directory did not get created. When launching the terminal server there's a part that asks what options you want to use. This is where you would enter cheatcodes. By default tz= is listed (which lets you set timezone), replace that with 2 so that the clients will boot in text mode and begin folding. This may be a lapse in the LTSP instructions which I'll get to fixing soon.


Also there are superkaramba themes in /home/knoppix/karamba. One of these is for the LTSP server (Foldmonitor_LTSP) and has an example configuration which monitors have a dozen folding clients. You can use/modify this theme to suit your needs to graphically display folding progress of server and clients on your desktop.

[fireburster]

yeah i was in text mode. Probably not working because i dont have net on this pc, so it couldnt get work.

i did tz= screen=800x600 since these are a terminal my work makes. Its basicly a tabletpc. I was supprised that i got it too boot atleast. Since this has a screen and i could type on it, does it show in it that its folding?

[Arkaine23]

ps -aux | grep wine-preloader

That should show if a client machine is folding if you run it on the client machine. Not having access to a pxe-bootable layer, I can't say for sure that this all works the way it should. However, doing a hdd install, it should be easy to fix if there is a problem since everything needed is there.

/etc/init.d/Foldclient start

is the command which runs when a client machine is booted which makes the folding directory on the server and starts the client folding.


As to why your net connection is not working.... I need more info to figure that out.

[fireburster]

i dont have it hooked to net. i have this installed on my linux testing laptop and just hubbed on my imaging network for flashing these terminals for clients. i just wantedto see if i could get pxe working.

[BIB]

does this one automatically fold because the 3.4 v3 did not?

[Papsomax]

Well dude, since I haven't had any luck on selling the farms, I might try testing this on my farms to see how it compares to OCixLTSP v 2.0. Give me a couple of days to dl and burn copy and I'll see what I can do.

paps

[Arkaine23]

It uses all the same scripts from OCix LTSP_2.1, only the installed software is slightly newer. So I wouldn't make the switch unless you were doing so only to help me test it.

I'm wondering if I placed the wrong terminal server script in the menu. There's /usr/bin/knoppix-terminalserver and also /usr/bin/overclockix-terminal server. If I did use the wrong one, then it'd only be a matter of using the correct one when launching the terminal server to begin with. Both will do terminal services naturally, but one would also setup the nfs share for the client machines to connect to. That's what I get for playing with scripts I didn't write myself....

Well I'm 99% confident everything that's needed is there on the CD. It just may be a matter rearranging the instructions for LTSP to get it right. Most likely that means running overclockix-terminalserver instead of knoppix-terminal server. If only one of my boxes could boot from LAN, I'd figure it out.

[Arkaine23]

And BTW 3.4_V3 does and always has folded automatically.

[FizzledFiend]

started downloading..have tried 3 versions of Linux and I always get errors on install..and with no clue as to what the errors are i am stuck bigtime..damn you bill gates *shakes fist in air*

[Papsomax]

So I wouldn't make the switch unless you were doing so only to help me test it.

Well my farms are all turned off as of now, so I'd be doing to help you test it out to work out any kinks.

paps

[FizzledFiend]

dang I am out of cdrs :|

[Papsomax]

Troy,

Downloaded it and burnt iso to cd. First I bought a new 16 port Hawking 10/100 switch to replace to 3Com half-duplex I bought from you. I will begin to connfigure this aaaas an LTSP server today and I'll let you know.Hey I like the boot splash screen you did and I like what I see so far.

Paps

[Papsomax]

Ok Troy,

This is what has happened so far. Installed to EDIT installed to HDD, not cd per instructions. Started LTSP term server as usual. Everything fine so fare witht the 2 servrs. I started client 239...it booted had a few erros message, but at the end said this: Starting Open BSD Secure shell server: sshd.
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/Fah/239/server/flags': no such file or diretory
cp: writing '/mnt/fah/server/flags': so space left on device
cat: write error; No space left on device
Client 192.168.1.239 is starting folding job(s)
/home/knoppix/bin/foldwin: line 3: flags: no such file or directory
Starting folding client
root@tty[/]#

The server hdd is 80gb, new

Client 239 does not show up in the fah directory..if you go to /home/knoppix/bin/ and exe foldwin i get Wine has stopped do to error 1
i rerun it and i get the flags to execut, retried the terminal server, rebooted, etc, retried client and says same thing. Also asks for a password when i try to ssh the client.


paps

[iomari]

Greetings everyone,
I hope this is the right place to post this.
I recently downloaded 3.7 twice and burned it 4 times. I am not a neewbie at all. However, every copy I have downloaded and burned gives me clooop errors. The iso has passed the md5 chksum so I'm confused. Is there another place to download from other than the urls on your sight or am I doing something wrong.

[Arkaine23]

If you're machine is overclocked, trying backing off the OC some. The Duallie I use to build Overclockix is stable for just about everything at 2130, but I have go slow it down to 2075 in order to boot from Knoppix CD's or else I get cloop errors.

Thanks for the LTSP notes, Paps. I know where the ssh keys are and how to regenerate them as needed. Will have to see what's happening with the NFS share... sounds like its not being mounted writeable maybe. And that's probably why the client's folding directory isn't getting made.

Wine itself changed from the version of OCix overdoze made and the one in 3.7. It used to be you had to use wine -- windows_app -flags, but now the -- causes errors so I had to edit the foldings scripts a little. I must have missed a script somewhere that configures the nfs share, will start by looking at /etc/exports to see if overdoze preconfigured it in LTSP. That and the ssh keys are probably all that's missing, in which case repairing a HDD install for LTSP will be easy and next update will get it fixed from the get-go.

[fireburster]

is vnc on this cd? Its in the ltsp info but i cant find it. Also, when i browse from my 2k3 server to add this pc to my emII i cant see it in the network like the directions note. WHen i type in the ip and i get a login and pass promt where i entered knoppix/knoppix and that doesnt work, nor knoppix/ and my pass set.

[samuraisam]

I'm setting up a farm right now.

It's going to be a diskless farm.

What do I need, LTSP 2.1 or Overclockix 3.7 ?

-Sam

[Papsomax]

LTSP 2.1...OCix 3.7 still has growing pains for terminal server with clients. I'm trying the latter and reporting the bugs to Arkaine. Hopefully soon he'll have it the ltsp working. So until then use ver 2.1 and Overdozes' install guide. If you need additional assistance go check out my farm how to.

paps

[samuraisam]

Okay.

I guess I need help with something else then...

It says theres something wrong with the database when I go to download it from bittorent.

-Sam

[Arkaine23]

This the link (http://overclockix.octeams.com/torrent/Overclockix_LTSP21.iso.torrent) you're using? It works for me.

[Audioaficionado]

The original BT link worked fine and downloaded in only a few hours instead of days. I seeded twice the download size in less than 24hrs.

[samuraisam]

Yep, worked now.

Thanks.

I'm seeding the 3.7, it's the only one I have, but when this one compleats, I'll seed 24/7, just as I am with 3.7.

-Sam

EDIT: Downloading at 6 k/s ? :eek:

[samuraisam]

If anybody knows of some software that allows you to set it so that a file on your server will only download so many megabytes, and then not be available. I'd host it for you.

I have 192gb / month of bandwidth, of which about <5gb / month is used. Tell me if you're interested. I just want it so that I don't go over, say, allot 180gb of transfer to the LTSP 2.1 file, and leave the rest for my website or whatever.

-Sam

[fireburster]

I got 3.7 going on my shuttle and booted up a client. I get the same thing paps is talking about. The client boots and loads, not folding or showing up on the server at all. I guess i will try 2.1 when i dl it. 3.7 is nice still other then this.

thanks for the hard work!!

[Arkaine23]

getting 3.7 to work as an ltsp server will not be a major operation. I've got my test equipment prepared so I'll figure it out and both post the solution and fix it in the next release.

As for mirroring Ocix iso's- about 700 iso's have been d/l'ed in the just the last week. Without BT, I'd need a copule thousand GB/month to be safe, although naturally there's way more traffic when there are new releases, like now.

[samuraisam]

Aye, that's quite a few. :roll:

Well, I'll contact my host and see if they'll donate some.

I mean, you've done a **** load of work, people outta get a reliable and fast way to get it. :D I'm just trying to do my part, and I'll update you with what they say.

-Sam

[Arkaine23]

I've been trying to upload to ibilio to get mirrored, but my ftp clients time-out before it finishes, and I'm not able to resume when i reconnect. My 256kbit upload from home is not enough I guess to get it there quick enough. If someone with a faster upload wants to upload iso's to ibilio.org/incoming/linux for me, I'll give instructions and get the required project information files uploaded.

[samuraisam]

I sure will.

Email : samuraiblog@gmail.com

Or send me a PM.

-Sam

[matrixzen]

If you guys have any problems, I can upload for you. I have 384kbps up at my house and 608kbps up at the office.

[samuraisam]

Yep, I have 512kbps upstream. So it's all good. :)

-Sam

[elec999]

Knoppix 3.7 wont lets get any video, with my Asus geforce 2 mx. Everything works in knoppix 2, but with gui, the screen goes black after every is loaded, I evern waited 10minutes. Everything was fine in older knoppix releases, same config. Is there a problem in the xfree config. Tried both kernels.
Arkaine23 Is it possible to implent a cheat, to start with folding support, or just normal boot.
Thanks

[orion25]

I installed Overclockix 3.7 with no problem!! I am using an overclocked XP-1700. Would I be better served by killing one instance of FAH or should I let both run? All this comp does is fold!!

See sig. Folding for my fathers!!

[orion25]

How do I enable my Nvidia card? It is a GF4 440mx.

Thanks.......

[orion25]

I installed Overclockix 3.7 with no problem!! I am using an overclocked XP-1700. Would I be better served by killing one instance of FAH or should I let both run? All this comp does is fold!!

See sig. Folding for my fathers!!

Help Please.....