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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby augie » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:08 pm

I have no idea what that means Bill. Sorry. Sun xVM VirtualBox??? :confused :bashhead
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:29 am

I have tried Windows virtual PC and VMware but had no success getting Ubuntu to load in those so i searched around and found Sun, http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads after starting it i loaded and ran the 32 bit version of Ubuntu with success but that is no good for folding,what you see on that screen is what happened when i tried to load the 64 bit.
Not to worry as i have all the time in the world to play around and see if i can get 64bit to run some other way.
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:23 pm

Been doing some research and it appears that my CPU can not run 64bit operations, the next step is to see what my local PC guy has and maybe get a new Mobo at the same time.
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:07 pm

Well don't ask how i did it (i have no idea) but i got into Bios and allowed virtualization loaded VMware and Ubuntu, now it just finding how to make folding run in virtual.
I downloaded it but it did not look the same as yours and no matter what i tried i could not get it to start up.
At least i have ubuntu running so i will try to progress from here.
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby augie » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:16 pm

Wow, that's some progress Bill! ^*^ Post some screenshots from VM and make sure to follow the guide right down to the punctuation marks, especially when you're doing something in the 'terminal'! :geek:
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:15 pm

I get to here and then i am stuck.
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby augie » Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:05 pm

Create a folder for folding and then double click the fah6 icon and extract to that area.

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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:59 pm

Ok i have that
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby augie » Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:09 pm

OK, you're getting very close. Open up 'terminal' accessed by Applications/Accessories/terminal. Navigate to your folder, looks like all you need to do is 'cd FOLDING' w/o the quotes of course and then enter the following command string:
'./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9' again without the quotes, this will start the client. You will see a WU loading, and then either an a1 or a2 core. About 14 mins./frame is an a2 and over 30 mins is an a1. You want to see a2's.;)

If you start Task Manager then you should see around %55 CPU use and this would be normal.

Jeez, I'm getting excited now! ^*^ Good luck Bill! :yesnod:
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Re: UBUNTU Virgin

Postby BILLMCC66 » Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:05 am

Your instructions are clear enough but may be i am just stupid but they don't work for me.
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