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Fivestar Crashtest:
Hello, everybody.  I built a Core 2 Duo computer on an Asus P5B motherboard last month and discovered I could not install Linux on it.  Had I bought a 975 or NForce board, this probably would not have been a problem but I always try to go for the non SLI boards because of the prices.  I watched the Ubuntu forums like a hawk waiting for someone to say they got it to work on the P5B and the newest Ubuntu 6.10, or "Edgy" was the answer.

So yesterday I burned my Edgy iso and fixed a sata drive on the board and popped the cd in and it installed and the internet worked and everything.  Ha, ha, not activating Windows on this machine, Bill, take that!  Then I downloaded BOINC.  I put the install file in my home folder and ran the sh script.  I cd'd to the BOINC folder and...

got some nonsense about file or command not found.

You can also install BOINC from Ubuntu repositories but the only problem with that is, you get a 64 bit BOINC with 64 bit Ubuntu.  And that will ask for 64 bit Seti.  I know some guys are working on that, but the repository BOINC is in a var/lib folder and I wasn't allowed to unzip archives to it or copy files to it.  I am sure someone smart could, but I am not smart.

I asked about this in the Ubuntu forums and they asked me was I sure the files were in the proper folders and were the scripts ok, etc.  So I googled Edgy and scripts.  I found this:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1932

that says Edgy uses dash instead of bash and that can break scripts.

I'm over my head talking about this stuff.  I was foolish enough to buy a first generation cpu and motherboard instead of patiently sitting back and watching everybody else struggle with issues and then I top it off by hunting for beta Linux distros to install on it.

In the meantime, I've been boincing away using Windows and I guess I'll stick with it.  There were no issues installing Windows XP Home and the only reason I wouldn't activate this key now would be because I'd want to try Windows XP Pro64.

Thanks for listening to me whine. :'( 

Pam

chboss:
Hi Pam

Yes, I fully understand your feeling about Linux.
Having the newest hardware is not always an advantage...   :(

There should be a way installing a 32bit client in a 64 bit Linux environment with no problems.
This is what I have running on my boxes with excellent results.....

Although I would like to get a proper and fast 64bit Linux client to improve the performance.   ;D

rgathright:
Pam try Fedora 5 64bit.  I used the ISO-DVD (took some searching).

Fivestar Crashtest:
I am downloading Fedora Core 5 now and I saw that FC6 was now the recommended version now at the Fedora site.  So I'm downloading that too. 

I googled "linux Intel 965 chipset" this morning, and the first result of the search was my original post here.   ::)

chboss:
I just updated one of my boxes to Fedora Core 6 64bit, Simon's application works nicely...   ;D
Certainly Core 6 supports more of the newer hardware.

regards
Chris

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