prime os
 

i was wondering if there was anysort of prime OS

and what i mean by that is i have some old computers ( 166) and such with no os but they do have all the hardware ( hdd cpu nic) to be productive on some level.

i was wondering if there was something simmalar to these os's on a floopy that i load with mabey a floppy or two and have it do nothing but crunch and mabey some simple stuff like track team stats and positions

Re: prime os
 

[quote="crash893"]i was wondering if there was anysort of prime OS

and what i mean by that is i have some old computers ( 166) and such with no os but they do have all the hardware ( hdd cpu nic) to be productive on some level.

i was wondering if there was something simmalar to these os's on a floopy that i load with mabey a floppy or two and have it do nothing but crunch and mabey some simple stuff like track team stats and positions[/quote]

Check out the end of this thread for some information on boot ROMS.
http://www.teamprimerib.com/gimps/viewtopic.php?t=48

The prime save files are too large to fit on a floppy.

If you've got enough RAM for a big enough RAMdisk, though, a LINUX floppy-based distribution might work - or you could set up a Linux Terminal Project style diskless-boot setup and use a server for storing the work files on.

well i didnt mean for it to stay contained on a floppy


i ment get a floopy or two

have the os install on the hdd and install prime

then download wu and do its thing once on the hdd

try linux from cd...
 

You could use one of the bootable linux CD distributions with the save dir an NFS mounted partition. Or were you thinking no network, either?

well im dont think a cd would work becuase some of these machines dont have a cdrom
( not anymore)


mabey like a os on one disk and the prime clent on another

If you have a HD in the machine, why are you looking at floppy-based distributions?

No CD? If you have a LAN card and 'Net access, do an install over the net.

Preferably, though, borrow a CD from another machine lone enough to do the install from - it's a LOT faster.

the hdd on the computer is only 500 mb

thats less that a cd im trying not to take up a lot of room on the computer

a cd isnt nesacarly out of the question but i would like the os to be under 50 mb if possible and then have prime on there also
just pop in the cd have it install on the hdd and start crunching away

mabey have it set up so that you can configure it or if you dont hit any buttons after 30 seconds it just installs a default settings

so if you have a comptuer with no keyboard and no monitor you can get them up and running.

I've got several LINUX dedicated cruncher machines running with 100 Meg *OR LESS* hard drives. I believe the smallest currently is a 40 Meg.

You don't need XWindows on a dedicated cruncher - that saves a LOT of HD space.


Unlike Windoze, LINUX doesn't HAVE to eat lotsa drive space, if you use a no-nonsense distribution like Slackware you can easily keep the bloat down.

well is there anyway we could get the whole os ( probably linux) and prime all set up in a package we could download and image to a bootable cd?

No one seems to be interested in building a 'prime os' from scratch. From software engineering point of view, this is reinventing the wheel.
But I think concentrating the computing power of old computers can be useful. Windows does over a thousand context switches per second. It is a waste of time. (am I correct?)
A few timings to get an idea:
Prime95: normal 96ms, screen display off 92ms, safe mode (can't turn off display) 94ms.
mprime (bootable disk): 93ms

If we have bootable version of Prime95, would it be faster than 92ms? At the same time, switching off display card can save electrical energy. We need that function if a bootable version ever created.

we could get a konppix distro and possibily set it up a new version but that requieres us to remaster a package
and i am the suckyest person to work with linux in the free world so dont look at me.

I posted Prime Monster's How-To in a ZIP file in another thread on building diskless Linux farms. I used it to construct mine with few problems, which was surprising given that I'm new to Linux.

no i mean everything sert up all u do change mac addresses
konppix would be best choice cause u can remaster it.

[QUOTE=moo]no i mean everything sert up all u do change mac addresses
konppix would be best choice cause u can remaster it.[/QUOTE]

Now that I have my farm set up, all I have to do to add a node is create a directory with the mprime software in it, then add it to the exports. No need to go messing around with a Linux distro.

do us a fav
take all the config files that are needed with the version of software u used and just freaking zip them in post it hahaha
make it easy
write a readme lol

PM's How-To has examples of all configs in it. That's how I made mine; some configs are specific to how you set it up, your network setup, etc.