Folding @ Home Remaster

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Folding @ Home Remaster
started by: tecker

Posted by tecker on Nov. 11 2005,19:47

I was wondering (and i don't know where to put this post) if it would be possiable to strip out the GUI of DSL and just make it a console. Well... maybe i should back up.

Here is what i want to do.
1) Strip down DSL
2) Put a Folding @ Home download script (cant package the client or so others claim) like finstall
3) Have Folding @ Home download on boot and begin as a service.
4) Optional: be able to check the progress remotely (access the html file that F@H has when it runs and look at the current file (unitinfo.txt)

WHY?
No other distrobution is doing this. At least not in a single sense. Others expect you to create a Server and then Farm out from there. I just want to Drop in and go.

Any Ideas as to what packages i can strip out?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Nov. 11 2005,20:07

I have a remaster image sitting at 25MB's,
which still includes the xservers, dillo, glinks, emelfm, mc, etc..

I then added the Textmaker.uci/pagemaker.uci apps from puppy
in place of the siag/writer stuff, and some other files..

I don't know just how far it would strip down without the
X stuff...

I wanted to only work with .uci's, and simply have the
smallest base I could to work in X from..

Lemme see what else will go to bootup only into cli.

Any thoughts about taking tomsrtbt, or basiclinux,
and using that as a base to run follding@home ??

73
ke4nt

Posted by tecker on Nov. 11 2005,22:50

does Tomsrtbt do networks? I was wanting it to have automatic network configuration and support a wide range of network services. Plus it has the monkey web server that could be configured for the MyFolding.html page.

I will have to look into Basic Linux but it is based on 2 floppies and not all computers have them (most do but the faster newer pcs don't.

Thanks to the new VMWare Player i can just start whacking away at the system and testing files as i go. Thanks for the info though.

Posted by chickenman on Nov. 12 2005,03:35

Sounds cool, I know of a few people who would be interested in this especially as running folding at home on WXP machines is very wasteful with all of the irrelevant processes running all the time. As I see it, you only really need to modify DSL a little to get this working as it dosent matter if the iso is 50-100mb, if it runs livecd in text mode headless -who cares? it shouldnt effect the speed of the processing.

But make sure yo have some sort of option to download the required files and store them locally somehow, so you dont need to download the same thing each time you reboot (however un-often that may turn out to be).

Posted by tecker on Nov. 12 2005,04:46

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As I see it, you only really need to modify DSL a little to get this working as it dosent matter if the iso is 50-100mb

I think that we should include the finstall script. Its quick to get DSL going and would be a good option for a
quick setup. I think i will request that the developer add this in a future relese. (2rc3 anyone?)

Good idea I will have to play with that.

Tecker

Posted by tecker on Nov. 12 2005,04:51

Another thing is that i want tit to be small so that i can issue a toram. Walk away. And DSL will boot and then D/l FAH and go. The trouble is that the system will take up quite a bit of room on a system. I want to create a disk that i can essentialy "b0rg" some machines using DSL. Be great fun.

I will work on the Scripts to do this and get it posted.

Once i get back to work i will begin to mutilate the DSL system starting with the opt directory.

(uh oh public terminal is going to kick me off)

Look for my progress. Or frustration. which ever comes first.