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Sekerob
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s060319..... more roads lead to Rome, thus excellent u constructed an alternate and shared it with us. Sure others will put it to use and get WCG on their boxes.
----------------------------------------As to the Why persuasion will be difficult? For one, the distribution system of work would have to be expanded and work readied and compiled specially for 7 machines. Now it sits in the same Linux work pool... very easily manageable which is why it was permitted in the first place to continue is what my take is on this. cheers
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Former Member
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I tried this hack with FreeBSD i386, and while it now *does* detect the amount of RAM and disk, I get the following once it's fetched work units:
2007-01-22 14:06:26 [World Community Grid] Starting task faah1252_d146n935_x2BPZ_00_0 using faah version 528 If the regular boinc client port doesn't work out of the box, it might be worthwhile to create a WCG port that does the hacks automatically. |
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Do you have installed linux binaries and enables them.
It looks like you don't have them installed or not enabled 2 ways to install them. 1: # cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4 # make install distclean or start sysinstall -> configure-> startup enable linux it will be automatically installed |
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Former Member
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is there any method that do not require X11?
i have not enough disk space for installing it= =" |
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hey , it works
 let me finialize the step.
add --with-boinc-platform=i686-pc-linux-gnu after CONFIGURE_ARGS=--disable-server # make install clean |
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Yes that should do the trick.
Does anybody know how to persuade WCG to add FreeBSD as a legal platform? Then you don't have to do the trick with changing your platform to linux in boinc.  |
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Sekerob
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Let me ask.... have u tried without applying the trick? On WCG side the machine sees a FreeBSD calling in and it sending Linux work. Tests in the back showed that the results are compatible.
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I just tried but it doesn't work.
I got this:2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for i386-portbld-freebsd 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Data directory: /var/db/boinc 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] gethostbyname failed 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] gethostbyname failed 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Processor: 1 i386 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Memory: 247.41 MB physical, 0 bytes virtual 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Disk: 1.20 GB total, 1.00 GB free 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: defa ult 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Listening on port 31416 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Scheduler list download succeeded 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [---] gethostbyname failed 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [---] gethostbyname failed 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Sending scheduler request to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Reason: Requested by user 2007-01-01 12:34:22 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Requesting 8640 seconds of new work 2007-01-01 12:34:25 [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/] Scheduler request succeeded 2007-01-01 12:34:25 [World Community Grid] Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd' not found 2007-01-01 12:34:25 [World Community Grid] Successfully attached to World Community Grid I am attached to the project. One of the xml files says that only linux, windows and mac is allowed as platform The program identifies itself by the variable platform in boinc but the real os/platform is freeBSD and you can see that on the server. He sees it is FreeBSD but it identifies itself as Linux. So if they allow FreeBSD it will work much easier. |
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I got this:2007-01-01 12:34:19 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for i386-portbld-freebsd 2007-01-01 12:34:25 [World Community Grid] Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd' not found Clearly you didn't get the correct build type. Do remember to apply that fix to the makefile, or you will get the wrong HOSTTYPE. You might try to run make patch, edit the Makefile, run make configure and then take a look at work/boinc-client-5.4.9/config.h; it should contain a line #define HOSTTYPE "i686-pc-linux-gnu". If it doesn't -- I just went through a build that ended up with "yes" there -- fix it before compiling. |
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Do you have installed linux binaries and enables them. It looks like you don't have them installed or not enabled They were, and I had linux.ko loaded. And linprocfs mounted. I fiddled with the compat.linux.osrelease sysctl, but setting it to 2.6.19 cores the faah1255 task. As long as the faah doesn't provide more meaningful diagnostics, I don't think I can do much. |
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