You can run my customized DC version of Knoppix 3.2 (overclockix) from a CD and plug in a small usb pen drive.
All you'd have to do is first time you boot the CD, go to the "Kstart menu" >KNOPPIX>Create Persistent Home Directory (this would only have to be done once and is very easy)
You move the configs as well as the Seti directory that normally would be in a ramdisk into the usb pen drive. (the mountpoint is usually /mnt/sda1 or possibly /mnt/pen) Then everytime you boot, use this code at the inital prompt:
knoppix home=scan (in addition to any other other ocdes for setting resolution or other X settings)
That will load your custom configs and use the pen drive for crunching your wu's instead of the volatile ramdisk).
When you first enter the desktop environment, this is what you do to start crunching.
Click the taskbar icon of a monitor with a shell next to it in order to bring up a terminal. Type:
foldoff
cfgseti
Enter you user information. That's it. There are several ways to monitor the seti client. See threads about overclockix or just ask and I'll help out.
You could then pack the CD and pen drive wherever you go and resume a wu where you left off from virtually any PC. Overclockix is capable of working entirely without a HDD or pen drive, though work units are crunched in ram so powerloss/reboot would lose the current wu.
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