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Dotsch Send message Joined: 4 Jun 06 Germany ObDoHe Credit: 0.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 4, 2006 Verified: Apr 5, 2010	Message 8309 - Posted: 20 Jan 2009 \| 21:43:06 UTC
Last week, I have released Dotsch/UX 1.0. - Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically. For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX ____________
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How about a bootable Live CD? ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Dotsch Send message Joined: 4 Jun 06 Germany ObDoHe Credit: 0.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 4, 2006 Verified: Apr 5, 2010	Message 8311 - Posted: 20 Jan 2009 \| 22:03:42 UTC - in response to Message 8310.
Do you mean, that it boot from CD and stores the data on a USB stick or network share ? ____________
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Wormholio Captain Send message Joined: 6 Jun 04 United States Away Credit: 4,009.8 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 6, 2004 Verified: Mar 13, 2008 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 10 Punishment: Aztec curse	Message 8313 - Posted: 21 Jan 2009 \| 12:35:50 UTC - in response to Message 8311. Last modified: 21 Jan 2009 \| 12:36:24 UTC
Dotsch wrote: Do you mean, that it boot from CD and stores the data on a USB stick or network share ? Yes. There are still many computers out there that won't boot from a stick, but will boot from CD. So a CD which can install on a hard drive partition, or work from a diskless client, would also be useful. And the Live CD could also be used just to demonstrate the whole process, before someone decides to allow use of the stick, even if it can't save the results (perhaps configured with WU's from several of the projects already in progress, to show them off?) In any case, it's a cool thing you've done. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Dotsch Send message Joined: 4 Jun 06 Germany ObDoHe Credit: 0.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 4, 2006 Verified: Apr 5, 2010	Message 8317 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009 \| 18:04:24 UTC - in response to Message 8313.
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Dotsch Send message Joined: 4 Jun 06 Germany ObDoHe Credit: 0.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 4, 2006 Verified: Apr 5, 2010	Message 8318 - Posted: 23 Jan 2009 \| 18:06:05 UTC - in response to Message 8313.
Yes. There are still many computers out there that won't boot from a stick, but will boot from CD. So a CD which can install on a hard drive partition, or work from a diskless client, would also be useful. And the Live CD could also be used just to demonstrate the whole process, before someone decides to allow use of the stick, even if it can't save the results (perhaps configured with WU's from several of the projects already in progress, to show them off?) Thank you very much ! - I will try to implement this in the next releases. In any case, it's a cool thing you've done. Thank you very much ! ____________
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Hmmm... Dare I use it on the work computer over the week nights and weekends? Let's see how fast my work computer really is. I have booted Ubuntu on it before. As long as I don't install anything on it, it shouldn't be a problem, since the network activity is negligible. Any plans to do one with boinc 6.4.5 soon?
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I tried it last night and it works great. Thanks. F7X is up and running on night shift. ____________ 6r39 7r199
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Dotsch Send message Joined: 4 Jun 06 Germany ObDoHe Credit: 0.2 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jun 4, 2006 Verified: Apr 5, 2010	Message 8478 - Posted: 4 Mar 2009 \| 19:19:48 UTC
Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.1. Mayor changes are the availability of a 32 bit (i386) and 64 bit (x64) distribution, mixed i386 and x64 diskless client on one single diskless server, build in BOINC client 6.4.5 and bug fixes  for the USB, hard disk, diskless server and diskless client Installation tools. The distribution is available at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX ____________
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Last week, I have released Dotsch/UX 1.0. - Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX

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How about a bootable Live CD?

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Dotsch wrote:

Do you mean, that it boot from CD and stores the data on a USB stick or network share ?

Yes. There are still many computers out there that won't boot from a stick, but will boot from CD. So a CD which can install on a hard drive partition, or work from a diskless client, would also be useful. And the Live CD could also be used just to demonstrate the whole process, before someone decides to allow use of the stick, even if it can't save the results (perhaps configured with WU's from several of the projects already in progress, to show them off?)

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Yes. There are still many computers out there that won't boot from a stick, but will boot from CD. So a CD which can install on a hard drive partition, or work from a diskless client, would also be useful. And the Live CD could also be used just to demonstrate the whole process, before someone decides to allow use of the stick, even if it can't save the results (perhaps configured with WU's from several of the projects already in progress, to show them off?)

Thank you very much ! - I will try to implement this in the next releases.

In any case, it's a cool thing you've done.

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Hmmm...

Dare I use it on the work computer over the week nights and weekends? Let's see how fast my work computer really is. I have booted Ubuntu on it before. As long as I don't install anything on it, it shouldn't be a problem, since the network activity is negligible.

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I tried it last night and it works great. Thanks. F7X is up and running on night shift.
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Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.1. Mayor changes are the availability of a 32 bit (i386) and 64 bit (x64) distribution, mixed i386 and x64 diskless client on one single diskless server, build in BOINC client 6.4.5 and bug fixes  for the USB, hard disk, diskless server and diskless client Installation tools.

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