Barbarossa
I just found 2 more HDDs. So I think I´ll use your Image twice for native and twice for
Ubuntu. No need to "waste" cpu cycles on a vm. Then, after a while, I´ll see what I end up with 

 
I made this more detailed guide about a year ago:
 
Link
 
The first part has some screenshots for the native image installation via the CD. I also have a raw disk image you can use to write the image to a hard disk using another tool of your choice.

Hi Linuxrouter.
Thanks for updating the image, got it working again, but thought you might like some feedback on the Vmware image. :)
 
1. the 7z archive on the page has a corrupt client archive in in (0 bytes) so it won't start ./fah6 (also probably why its only 40MB) The zip file is fine.
2. There seems to be something wrong with the Langouste client, as it errors out when you start it and the FAH client can't connect to localhost:8080, when I edit the client.cfg to change proxy to no it then connects to stanford.
 
Hope this helps mate, otherwise its shaved 2 minutes off a bigadv and added 4K to my PPD on a 2600K :)
 

Cheers mate
 
Like so?:
 

USER=autofah
# Start Langouste if enabled
. /etc/rc.d/rc.fah.conf
LPORT=8080
etc
etc
 

 
 
 
 

Worked great, no errors on Langouste
 
However I'm getting some php errors when hitting submit on the config page:
 

 
 Warning:  fopen(/usr/local/fah/client.cfg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /srv/httpd/htdocs/configfah.php on line 81
 
 Warning:  fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /srv/httpd/htdocs/configfah.php on line 107
 
 Warning:  fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /srv/httpd/htdocs/configfah.php on line 108
 
 Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /srv/httpd/htdocs/configfah.php:81) in /srv/httpd/htdocs/configfah.php on line 267 

Gotcha cheers!

Some errors are normal in the main folding log. There should be a separate Langouste log found in /tmp/langouste-fah. This log should let you know the status of the work unit transmission to the server.
 
Here is a sample from my Linux folding rig:
 

 root@FAH:/tmp/langouste-fah# more langouste-helper-1273.log  /tmp/langouste-fah/1273/clientdir 
 processing work/wuresults_01.dat 
 unit number '01' 
 launching fah... 
 
 Note: Please read the license agreement (fah6 -license). Further  
 use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement. 
 
 
 
 --- Opening Log file [March 21 09:55:31 UTC]  
 
 
 # Linux Console Edition ####################################################### 
 ############################################################################### 
 
                        Folding@Home Client Version 6.34 
 
                           http://folding.stanford.edu 
 
 ############################################################################### 
 ############################################################################### 
 
 Launch directory: /tmp/langouste-fah/1273/clientdir 
 Executable: /usr/local/fah/fah6 
 Arguments: -send 01  
 
 [09:55:31] - Ask before connecting: No 
 [09:55:31] - Proxy: localhost:8080 
 [09:55:31] - User name: linuxrouter (Team 111065) 
 [09:55:31] - Machine ID: 1 
 [09:55:31]  
 [09:55:31] Loaded queue successfully. 
 [09:55:31] Attempting to return result(s) to server... 
 [09:55:31] Project: 6965 (Run 0, Clone 4, Gen 6) 
 [09:55:31] - Read packet limit of 540015616... Set to 524286976. 
 
 
 [09:55:31] + Attempting to send results [March 21 09:55:31 UTC] 
 [09:56:10] + Results successfully sent 
 [09:56:10] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home. 
 [09:56:10] + Starting local stats count at 1 
 
 Folding@Home Client Shutdown. 
 unit 01 sent! 
 all done 

I am using your disk image on both my SR-2s and they are working great picked up about 30k PPD each from windows install, is tears "thekraken" affinity wrapper able to be used on this install? if it is would it be hard to do or would I just follow the guides the same as with a ubuntu install.

I had to restart my router due to config change and it appears my 2 linux boxes have decided to forget their IPs and are no longer showing up in the attatched devices of my router and cannot be found on their original IPs, I have tried running sudo dhclient but it doesn't appear to do anything do I need to shut down the folding client for it to work?? they are both half way through WUs and I dont want to lose them this far along.  If I leave them running will they try to get another IP when they attempt to upload and if not will it save the WU so I can shut down the client without worry of it losing the WU.

Thanks I will try it.

alpineb1

Linuxrouter i would like to know something.

Which one is better to use, Virtual Box or Vmplayer ?!
Do i will have a better TPF by using one more than the other ?

Thanks

 
In the past, VMware performed better with the folding client. However, I just recently received this notice for a new build of Virtualbox that may help with some of the past stability and performance issues seen with bigadv. This is from a troubleticket I opened a two years back:
 
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5292#comment:2
 
I tested out the new VB build and performance with bigadv in VB is not too far off from performance in native Linux.

Hello,
The link I posted above has a link to build 4.0.7 that has not been posted to the Virtualbox site yet. It seems to have given a performance bump over previous versions from the limited testing I have been able to do so far.

farthestkris

hi LR, what version would i use on a usb flash drive? 

   
Hello,
 
You could try and use my native image. I originally made it for use with hard disks. However, some people have successfully used the image with a USB flash drive. The main modification that needs to be made is that on bootup via LILO bootloader, an option needs to be added to the kernel to give the USB subsystem enough time to initialize the disk before attempting to mount the file system. Here is what to enter for that:
 
core2 rootdelay=15
 
This tells the kernel to wait 15-seconds before attempting to mount the file system. Replace core2, with whichever of the available kernels you choose to use. There will be ongoing writes against the USB flash drive since any new data is written directly to the drive.

Woot woot!  Thanks, linuxrouter!  I'll be trying the new image out soon.  I'll let you know if I run into any issues with the LAN ports on my P55 FTW (I had to tweak scripts on the 1.3.1 version to get ETH1 working since I don't have an ETH0).
 
I think I need to download the newest lmsensors as well.  I ran the sensors-detect and it only found one item, and it said that there was no software for it.  *shrug*  Right now, the only temp readings I am getting are from the LED on the MB (which only shows die temps, it doesn't show core temps like lmsensors should).
 
Thanks for your work on this, it's dang near exactly what I was looking for!  The minor little things I can script out myself.

linuxrouterFor the CPU core temps, give this a try:
modprobe coretemp
sensors -s
sensors

Worked like a champ!  Reports all four core temps.  I put the following into my personal status script:
 
modprobe coretemp
sensors -s
sensors | fgrep Core

That way, it dumps a nice, neat four-line list of the temps.
 
Here's what I got from the sensors-detect run:

Driver 'to-be-written':
  * ISA bus, address 0xa00
     Chip 'Fintek F71889FG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
Note: there is no driver for Fintek F71889FG Super IO Sensors yet.
Check http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for updates.

There is an entry for it on the http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices site.
 
I'm still learning Linux... is it basically a download of the newest lm-sensors and try again, or is it more involved?

A couple updates:
 
I uploaded a new Virtualbox image that has most of the same updates that the latest VMware image has and the latest vbox-additions of version 4.1. The latest Virtualbox is reported to perform much better on multi-socket systems so it may be worth trying out Virtualbox again if you are using VMware and if you have more than 8-cores in Windows.
 
Secondly, I finally got around to putting a MySQL DB behind my bonus point calculator. The projects will now sync nightly so that the project list is updated on a regular basis and I can still manually add projects that do not show up right away on psummary. Also, since I have the projects in a DB now, I put up a couple links for exporting the projects to JSON or XML, which should be easier to parse than HTML. It uses the same DB as the calc so is only updated once a day.