Diskless BOINC Farms

[LeBo]

I would really like to set it up to boot up then monitor it with BAM. I want to run it headless and diskless . BTW when you get your BoincPE made just run a prog called
PEtoUSB, I'll get the web site and post it

http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb

[drezha]

I think when my exams are over I'm going to break into my old laptop case, remove all the items that either no longwer work or aren't needed and have a go installing BOINCpe.

[Bender10]

I run mine headless now. I just install RealVNC (ultravnc would not load) to the ramdrive. With a 256 mb ramdrive, There is plenty of room for software.

I've taken a few shortcuts to get this to work (the way I want). I am slowly solving the problems, and using the 'plugins' instead of loading software to bypass an issue.

[LeBo]

I think I will give RealVNC a try.

[LeBo]

I run mine headless now. I just install RealVNC (ultravnc would not load) to the ramdrive. With a 256 mb ramdrive, There is plenty of room for software.

I've taken a few shortcuts to get this to work (the way I want). I am slowly solving the problems, and using the 'plugins' instead of loading software to bypass an issue.

Hey Bender, how did you you get it to run headless. I am set up to run with no hard drives or CD Rom drives. I am booting and running off the flash drive with a ram drive. All th work is done in the ram drive. BTW, I am controlling them off UltraVNC. I also need a plugin for a wireless Linksys WUSB54GC usb nic. I am setting up a flash drive with Bartpe for non Bionc and one for Bionc with Boincpe, both with 512 Meg Ram drive.

[Bender10]

You have to disable the Bios "Halt on Error" or whatever your Bios has for that type of thing.

How did you get Ultravnc to load? I kept getting a file error. Is there an extra file to load?

Did you find anything that helped on the Bartpe site (for drivers, etc?).

Flash drive? Oh, I understand. I had not thought of that. Boot up "Bartpe" to run non-Boinc. That works. You could also just disable BOINC from starting, use the BOINCpe shell....And still have all your "Plugins".

Good Work!

EDIT: The nic drivers are easy to install. You don't have to put them in as a plug-in. I think they can just go in a folder...Let me look tonight. Or this:

"Q: My network adapter (NIC) is not recognized while booting up BOINCpe. What to do?
A: Probably your NIC is pretty new. You simply have to add your Windows driver to the directory .\drivers\Net. Please also have a look at: BartPE: Adding drivers"

This is from BOINCpe FAQ's....

[LeBo]

The driver setup that I downloaded from Linksys is an *.Exe file. It is wanting to install into my setup machine not BartPE.

[LeBo]

How did you get Ultravnc to load? I kept getting a file error. Is there an extra file to load?


Good Work!

This is from BOINCpe FAQ's....

I downloaded the binary (not setup file) drivers file from the UltraVNC web site and unzipped them into the files folder under the UltraVNC plugin folder under BartPE.

[Bender10]

You should be able to use Winzip to view this file (i just did) and extract the required files.

[Bender10]

When I looked in the Ultravnc folder, it looked like everything was there. I'll do the download.