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Former Member
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When u post the upload lines and the detail from the Results Status page that says 'Valid', I'll bow even deeper, than i do now already..... truly hope it works..... multithreaded :)   Ahh, smug mode  |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In the brief window of uptime we had - I was able to validate that your results do in fact match with Linux.
We will be setting the FreeBSD folks to be sent work with Linux. Great job figuring this out darkskye! |
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Former Member
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If it does work, may I suggest adding the BSD platform as an accepted platform? That way, the hackishness with faking the platform identifier won't be required. Just to clarify, the platform is identified as BSD, but it requests and runs Linux projects under the native BSD emulation, which is what the hack does. It gets around the problem of running the BOINC client under emulation which results in negative available RAM and disk space being reported which causes the WU's to be aborted. |
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Suicide_King
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Whattaya know? I actually seem to have got it working.
Not bad for a *nix n00b. I wonder if it'll crunch faster than my Windows install. |
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Former Member
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Whattaya know? I actually seem to have got it working. Not bad for a *nix n00b. I wonder if it'll crunch faster than my Windows install. Glad to know my instructions are simple to follow :) Have you had Valid results appear in your profile yet? |
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Former Member
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Whattaya know? I actually seem to have got it working. Not bad for a *nix n00b. I wonder if it'll crunch faster than my Windows install. Glad to know my instructions are simple to follow :) Have you had Valid results appear in your profile yet? Great instructions!. I'm crunching on FreeBSD too now, and yes I have several Valid results now. Thanks! |
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Former Member
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make config choose X11 @@
am i necessary install x11? |
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Sekerob
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According BOINC stats there are now 7 FreeBSD hosts connected to WCG!
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Former Member
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make config choose X11 @@ am i necessary install x11? The instructions appear to require the x11 package as it reads: This is how I did it. cd /usr/ports/net/boinc-client make config (select X11 Support, the only option at time of writing) make patch (wait a while, the FreeBSD ports system will go about installing any dependencies it needs to run BOINC+X11) edit /usr/ports/net/boinc-client/Makefile and find the line that reads: CONFIGURE_ARGS= --disable-server and replace it with CONFIGURE_ARGS= --disable-server --with-boinc-platform i686-pc-linux-gnu Follow this thread, the instructions are there: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/...thread=10249&offset=0 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 20, 2007 6:26:46 PM] |
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Former Member
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You say that there are 7 running freebsd machines, probably 2 are mine
 I got it working without the help of this thread. After hours of searching and with some help I did simply add the line: first you update your ports tree. then go to /usr/ports/net/boinc-client Then you add --with-boinc-platform=i686-pc-linux-gnu behind: CONFIGURE_ARGS=--disable-server Simply run: make install clean Add following to the /etc/rc.conf to enable BOINC client: boinc_enable="YES" Then start BOINC client with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/boinc* start if you shutdown and restart the computer boinc will be automatically started as a service. Now follow the instructions on how to add a project. Why don't they allow FreeBSD as a platform. Now it runs in linux emulation but it is very simple to set up a freebsd machine to compile the wcg projects for FreeBSD platform. Does anybody now how to persuade wcg?  |
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