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Anonymous   06-28-2001 at 01:26:46 AM

I have recently been thinking of building a “crack rack” in which I have several motherboards and CPUs running SETI which is loaded into memory. These extreme skeleton systems would only consist of board, CPU, RAM, video card, and NIC card. I was considering using something like Klinux (http://klinux.teamrc5.com/) to run the SETI client. Does anyone know anything about this kind of setup? I would like someone who has done this or has knowledge to tell me few pointers, if there are any, before I jump in and buy parts to throw together. Thanks for the info…

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FatBurger   06-29-2001 at 07:55:36 PM
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How about hard drives?
And don't you have anything better to spend your money on? ;)

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Lowlypawn   07-02-2001 at 10:17:09 AM
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Yea, How would it work with out a hard drive?

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jeffg007   07-02-2001 at 02:26:49 PM
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With that flavor of linux you don't need a hard drive. All you have to do is boot with a floppy that has the os on it and load it into RAM.

trinux is anther good one to try with.
<A HREF="http://trinux.org" target="_new">http://trinux.org</A>

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Lowlypawn   07-03-2001 at 03:41:35 AM
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Sweet. I want to make 10 of em.

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FatBurger   07-03-2001 at 10:57:33 PM
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Do you guys have way too much money, or what?

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Lowlypawn   07-04-2001 at 01:57:22 AM
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No, way to little money:) or I would have 10 of em.

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FatBurger   07-10-2001 at 08:33:53 PM
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Hey, could you do a network boot so you wouldn't have to worry about floppies? Just a thought.

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peteb   07-16-2001 at 06:18:58 AM
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could do, but you need a NIC (eg 3com) that supports network boot 'prom. Probably more expensive than a floppy drive....

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FatBurger   07-16-2001 at 07:00:42 PM
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Wait, wouldn't you need a network card anyway though?

Yeup, the original post said there would be one included. You can save the $11 per machine for a floppy drive.

You would need a NIC to load the SETI@Home packets. Packets? Whatever the word is. I'm not a member, so I don't know.

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peteb   07-17-2001 at 02:37:21 AM
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no - you need a special nic with an extra prom to support network booting - bound to cost more than your $11 floppy drive - even allowing for the cost of the disk!

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FatBurger   07-17-2001 at 05:48:35 PM
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I agree it would be more, but since you need one anyway, you might as well get one that supports network booting.

Unless they're much more expensive. How much more are they?

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peteb   07-17-2001 at 06:00:54 PM
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so back to my point then - it is probably cheaper just to use the floppy drive anyway!

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FatBurger   07-17-2001 at 06:49:17 PM
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Quote :

How much more are they?



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ChrisLudwig   08-18-2001 at 06:50:31 PM
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Check out this site: http://www.icpamerica.com/

They make industrial server components, which are very good for building web hosts or 3D rendering racks. They make IDE compatable flash drives and single board, dual processor computers. Very cool stuff. If you really have a lot of money to waste to get your SETI stats up their, check this out.


- I got a board too: http://www.impactsites2000.com/cgi [...] nboard.cgi

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Lowlypawn   08-26-2001 at 03:45:44 PM
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Cool site!

Lets make it easy to visit <A HREF="http://www.icpamerica.com" target="_new">http://www.icpamerica.com</A>

I'm all most afraid to see the prices.

BTY would and IDE flash drive act the same as a hard drive?

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ChrisLudwig   08-26-2001 at 07:37:40 PM
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Yep, the flash disk works the same. Just a lot faster access time.
Their not really used for storage, just for an OS or some software. You could hook up the system to a SAN or NAS for storage.


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