RH 6.0 & SETI@Home

[NoCtrl]

Could someone tell me how to install and run Seti@home on RH 6.0? I just installed RH and I have no idea what I'm doin' yet. I've tried most of the morning and half the afternoon to figure out how to get Seti@home going.

Also, I'm using 2 celrons in a Abit BP6. Can anyone tell me how to make sure that RH recognizes both CPU's and what to do if it doesn't? The system monitor only shows one CPU. The weird thing is that it shows Seti@home running 3 different times but I don't see the application like in windows.

I'm soOOOo confused.

Thx in advance for your help.

[Joel Kleppinger]

Well, I'm no SETI guy - sorry about that. May RC5 live forever. [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img] Anyway, if you only have one kernel detected, the problem is that Dual CPU support isn't compiled into the kernel and you'll have to recompile the kernel to compile in the support.

Compiling the kernel isn't very hard, but you do have to do it a couple of times to get used to the process. I suggest check out the docs at the Linux Documentation project: http://www.linuxdoc.org/

As far as SETI goes, if I'm not mistaken, it is not written to take advantage of two CPUs natively so you'll need to start two seperate clients up, each configured to take advantage of their own CPU. Unfortunately, being a Linux newbie, I don't know how to do this.

I suggest checking out #linux on Undernet or EFNet for more information and detailed help with your situation. There are a lot of knowledgeable people at both places.

Good luck.

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 09-05-99).]