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Keith Myers
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Ughh, not ever going back to

Ughh, not ever going back to a root restricted user of Boinc.  Will stick with the easy to work with Berkeley installer installation via the AIO.

 

mikey
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Keith Myers wrote: Ughh, not

Keith Myers wrote:

Ughh, not ever going back to a root restricted user of Boinc.  Will stick with the easy to work with Berkeley installer installation via the AIO. 

Yes I agree it's much better!!

Tom M
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mikey wrote: Keith Myers

mikey wrote:

Keith Myers wrote:

Ughh, not ever going back to a root restricted user of Boinc.  Will stick with the easy to work with Berkeley installer installation via the AIO. 

Yes I agree it's much better!!

If you have the correct file locations to look in it is not impossible to work with. It just feels so much more clumsy. 

The AIO model actually feels a lot like a Windows install.

:)

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Jimbocous
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Yeah, so that's pretty much

Yeah, so that's pretty much right off the BOINC Repository for 8.0.

Though I didn't need to set any permissions when loading off the repository, but it never hurts to check:)

Thanks.

Jimbocous
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If anyone tried to see my web

If anyone tried to see my web page on BOINC installation on Linux and received an error, please accept my apologies and try again.

I experienced a minor short between the headsets which effected normal operations here :(

 

 

 

 

Jimbocous
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FWIW, Ubuntu 24.04 has now

FWIW,

Ubuntu 24.04 has now been added to the BOINC Repository download scripts. No changes apparent from the 20/22 process, as would be logical. The build remains at 8.1.0 beta (nightly), with Alpha updated to 8.0.2.

Tom M
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https://www.zdnet.com/article

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-file-system-structure-explained/

Nice high level overview.

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Tom M
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https://www.howtogeek.com/how

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/

Short step by step.

Be careful. It also wants you to fully update your OS. I run with security only updates.

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Tom M
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Apparently the trick to

Apparently the trick to convincing Linux (Ubuntu 20) to continue using the "internal" MB GPU to drive the video monitor after you have installed gpus and added the NVIDIA driver, is to install the OS from scratch with the internal setting in the MB bios set to internal.

(I will join "run on sentences Anonymous" real soon now).

 

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Ian&Steve C.
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You can also just delete the

You can also just delete the xorg.conf file 

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