i need to go diskless,my hd is broken in my vaio laptop so i was wondering if i used a nic could i use the cpu power all the time.otherwise goodwill will have this

Yes, but it requires you to setup a LTSP server on another computer. More info here: http://www.k12ltsp.org/contents.html' ">http://www.k12ltsp.org/contents.html

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so on a scale of 1 being easy and 10 being hard what would u rate it stone,i have a netgear router then i want to use windows ics to share it using my ethernet port,connect my xbox and the diskless comp to the hub thats connected to my comp.my comp is connect wirelessly though.

it is time consuming im guessing, and you have to modify some code to make the F@h program store its data on the server...ask Mime about it

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If it's just one machine that you don't have a drive for, you might want to look at a LiveCD linux distro rather than a diskless setup(assuming, of course you have a CD drive for it). Diskless setups are great for setting up multiple terminals, but it'd probably be easier to try a LiveCD if you've got just one machine to work with.

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mime can i please have a linky for the live cd linux,is it good to use and can it access xp files on a network

@mime, is this good to use for distro computing/server for games http://tzone.freesbie.org/' ">http://tzone.freesbie.org/, or what would you recomend,any that are like windows

None are really like windows, They all require some getting use to if you've never played with linux before. Loading many programs and packages requires using the terminal, like command prompt in DOS, but with different commands. You can find more info here: http://www.linuxiso.org/' ">http://www.linuxiso.org/

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QUOTE(Mime @ May 14 2005, 04:52 PM)If it's just one machine that you don't have a drive for, you might want to look at a LiveCD linux distro rather than a diskless setup(assuming, of course you have a CD drive for it).  Diskless setups are great for setting up multiple terminals, but it'd probably be easier to try a LiveCD if you've got just one machine to work with.
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How would he be able to load the folding software without a hard drive though? If I'm reading this correctly, he pretty much needs to run it as a terminal.

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Well, if it has a burner, this might work. http://www.goosee.com/puppy/multi-puppy.htm' ">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/multi-puppy.htm

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QUOTE(Silk_the_Absent1 @ May 14 2005, 06:21 PM)How would he be able to load the folding software without a hard drive though? If I'm reading this correctly, he pretty much needs to run it as a terminal.

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You can run a terminal window and all the same basic utilities from a LiveCD just as you can from a hard drive. Assuming there's enough room, instead of writing data to disk everything that needs to be stored locally will be stored in main memory. Once the machine boots it basically works the same way as a diskless terminal can, but everything loads off a CD rather than over the network.

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okey iam getting puppy,now will it run a folding program and run internet

If you wanted a Live CD to say you would need one with F@H already built into it, and I dont know of any that do unfortuantely.

But do you want my recommendation, sure you do. My opinion, go buy a cheap hard drive, load something on there and load F@H.

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ok i did it,i was reading the forum with it a min ago, stone how do i put folding on it,i downloaded it to the ram then it was just a word file,i dled the linux consol

Hi, I think i have the answer, i'm doing exactly what you are wanting to do on an old thinkpad laptop. I boot the laptop from CD in to a very small live linux distribution called [content edited] Small Linux (DSL' ">http://www.damnsmalllinux.org for short) and it sets up a ramdisk in which you can store files and also supports USB dirves and the like. I then download (it detects most network hardware and setups automaticaly and has a wizzard for wireless config) and run the linux F@H client purely from the ramdisk. This makes it run pritty much silent and uses less power than with a hard disk. Only thing to remember is that if you are going to power it off back everything up to USB stick first.
Hope that helps, any more questions, feel free to ask..

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