You ain't just a ' kiddin' brother computer addict (nomad8u)
I still don't understand all I know about VMWare, let alone being proficient in Linux. I find you really don't need to be that proficient in Linux for just folding
Late the other night I had a HD crash and burn on one of my Q6600's runnin' LinSMP under the Ubuntu v8.04 OS (it had 2x clients originally) For a temporary fix (I'm a pernts w[H]ore I didn't want no down time ) I just DL'ed the notfred CD for 4x cores, burned it to a CD, went into BIOS and set it for DVD boot, pluged in a little 1 GB flash drive and back to folding city I went. (15 mins or 20 mins max downtime). I've been using that configuration for a couple of days until the "pony express" (UPS) delivered a new 80 GB SATA HD from the egg. (I still think smaller drives are faster, at least I know they're cheaper)
This diskless/headless notfred CD is a "no brainer". Until someone mentioned it was Linux I hadn't even thought about it. I can't get over how easy it is
@ capreppy: thanks for pointing out the 2x cores or 4x cores CD setup. That way setting it to 2x core I think you can run 2x clients of LinSMP on a quad core CPU . I knew I was using a quad core CPU so when I saw the check mark for 4x cores I just automatically checked it
FOLD ON!