When you reinstall BOINC you may reinstall it in its entirety on a separate partition and it will use that partition. You specify the location during the install process. I have one system which is done this way and it works flawlessly.

Cheers

Well with OS info we've got something useful to work with. Most people use the (Synaptic) package manager to fetch and install the latest stable BOINC version the particular distro offers.

Afiak, BOINC on Linux always runs as Daemon (Service in Windows speak). That way it will run even if no one logs in. The installer routine should still provide screens to choose the location for the data. Found it's default on Linux as /var/lib/boinc-client or ~/BOINC

As for immediate start, the WCG package has a build in 2 minute delay on Windows so everything can load during boot before BOINC starts taking spare cycles. This way for many the loading of OS/Services/User Apps is faster. You could add the option manually to the cc_config.xml which you may have to create manually if not provided by the installer kit.

Hello,
Thanks a lot for your help.
I managed to install BOINC on a second, almost empty partition and started it there. So it should have enough space now.

It was quite tricky to get the machine going.

I purchased the machine for relatively little money, because it was not new when I bought it.

But it was a long way to get the operating system on it, I can tell you.

Well, one machine of two is crunching now, at last.

But with the second one, I got serious problems.

Its a Fujitsu Siemens Celsius R 610

Unfortunately, this machine has not only a BIOS, but in addition an

ADAPTEC SCSI select utility.

And this is, where - as far as I understand - the problem starts.

I managed to configure the BIOS Boot options. In the BIOS it is clear now, that the machine should boot from CD ROM (because UBUNTU Linux is on CD, and from CD it shoul be transfered to the hard disc.

However, in the ADAPTEC SCSI Select Utility, there is a boot option for each disk, too.

And this options tell the machine to boot from the (empty) disk. Booting from an empty disk is sensless. And: It looks like as if the boot options in the ADAPTEC SCSI Select Utility cannot be changed that easily. If I
choose "Boot Options" and press "Enter", just a the Utility suggests, I can see that the configuration is as follows:
Single Image
AIC -7902 (this is in my opinion the name of the disk)

But: there is now way of changing this.

I simply cannot add the CD ROM as an additonal boot device.
There is the disk (AIC - 7902) and ---- that is it.

Therefore: The millon dollar question is now:
How to change boot options in an Adaptec SCSI Select utility in a way that makes the machin boot from CD ROM Drive?

I am really not happy bothering you, folks, whith such complicated questions not really being part of BOINC, but I simply do not know how to make the machine go. I wrot an e-mail to the maufacturer of the machine, but they will for sure not answer quickly. And tomorrow, I have to leave, the machine stays here, and will stand and do nothing.....

Maybe someone has an Siemens Fujitsu Celsius R 610 workstation and knows how to handle this strange ADAPTEC SCSI Select utility and its boot options????

Thank you very much in advance.
The machine was bought for just 150 Euros, only for BOINC.....
Yours
Martin
PS Martin Schnellinger and Kafejka is the same, I created a new user for the two machines I purchased