Hello,

we have it basically running, only the topic with our skin, which should
be used is open.
yoyo

Daniel Lombraña González wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As David said, we presented what yoyo is describing right now, in the
> last BOINC workshop in Barcelona, Spain. We call those usb memories,
> BOINC pills :) (check  the attached image).
>
> The problems that you have can be solved as Rom Walton told, you but
> the main problems of running BOINC within a memory is that, the first
> time you run it, the benchmark tests are run taking into account the
> hardware where the memory is plugged in. If then, you connect that USB
> memory to another desktop PC, the claimed credit may be wrong. We talk
> a bit about these issues in the workshop, and gave some pills to the
> audience. I think that this idea of distributing BOINC in a memory is
> worthy, as you will be able to contribute to projects from any
> computer. Thus, if there are more people interesting in this topic, it
> may be interesting to find the problems that may arise of using this
> development, and try to fix them.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Daniel
>
> PS: we created the BOINC pills for Extremadurathome.org users.
>
> 2010/5/13 Richard Haselgrove <[email protected]>:
>   
>> Yes, just tested - the "/a" administrative setup option is still present in
>> v6.10.54
>>
>> But it still has the problems I desribed in
>> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/847 - my INSTALLDIR and DATADIR have
>> both been set to
>>
>> W:\downloads\BOINC setup files\v6-10-54_admin\program files\BOINC\
>> W:\downloads\BOINC setup files\v6-10-54_admin\CommonAppData\BOINC\
>>
>> respectively. Since I've upgraded my network workstation to v6.10 since I
>> wrote that ticket, I now can't run BOINC on this machine until I've done a
>> registry restore.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolás Alvarez"
>> <[email protected]>
>> To: "Rom Walton" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "Charlie Fenton" <[email protected]>; "BOINC Developers Mailing
>> List" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Boinc on USB Stick
>>
>>
>> El 13/05/2010, a las 01:31, "Rom Walton" <[email protected]> escribió:
>>
>>     
>>> You should be able to:
>>> 1. Install the version of BOINC you desire on a computer.
>>> 2. Copy the contents of the executable directory (C:\Program
>>> Files\BOINC) to the root of the flash drive
>>>
>>> Next you'll need to delete the registry entries the installer and the
>>> manager use:
>>> HKLM\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup
>>> HKCU\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Manager
>>> HKCU\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC
>>> Screensaver
>>>       
>> I recall there was an /a option in the installer (or in msiexec) to
>> just extract the files without performing a full installation (doesn't
>> touch registry or user accounts). Does that still work?
>>
>>     
>>> ----- Rom
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of yoyo
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:14 PM
>>> To: Charlie Fenton
>>> Cc: BOINC Developers Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Boinc on USB Stick
>>>
>>> Answers inline.
>>> thanks to take care about it.
>>> yoyo
>>>
>>> Charlie Fenton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello Yoyo,
>>>>
>>>> Rom and I have 3 questions for you regarding your request for Boinc
>>>> on a USB Stick.
>>>>
>>>> [1] At 13:56:56 PDT Tue May 11, 2010 Jorden van der Elst wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Use a cc_config.xml file with the following entries:
>>>>>
>>>>> <cc_config>
>>>>> <options>
>>>>> <simple_gui_only>1</simple_gui_only>
>>>>> </options>
>>>>> </cc_config>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't think this is what you want; it will make it impossible to
>>>> switch to Advanced view.
>>>>
>>>> BOINC always starts in Simple View when first installed.  But once it
>>>> has run, it remembers the last view selected by the user and starts
>>>> in that view.  Does this not meet your needs?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes, this is OK for us.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> [2] From your message it is unclear whether you want the USB stick to
>>>>         
>>> have :
>>>       
>>>>  (a) a BOINC installer which runs automatically, or
>>>>  (b) BOINC itself (Manager and Client) already installed on the
>>>>         
>>> stick.
>>>       
>>>> If (b), then do you want all of BOINC's data to also reside on the
>>>> stick?  Also, the BOINC installer normally sets a number of values in
>>>> the Windows registry; if you want (b) we'll need to determine whether
>>>> BOINC needs to be modified to run without those registry settings.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> We want (b). Boinc should be completely installed on the USB stick and
>>> run from there. At least this was possible with version 5.x. I have
>>> this
>>> version on a nfs network drive and start it from various computers,
>>> which never before had any Boinc installation. We want to place a
>>> account_<project>.xml with the weak account key in the Boinc folder.
>>> This should be used by Boinc to download WUs from the project and run
>>> them.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> [3] What is your time frame for having this (i.e., when do you need
>>>>         
>>> it)?
>>>       
>>>>         
>>> We have no special time line for it. We just working on it and want to
>>> provide it as download on our homepage.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --Charlie
>>>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: [boinc_dev] Boinc on USB Stick
>>>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:41:25 +0200
>>>> From: yoyo <[email protected]>
>>>> To: BOINC Developers Mailing List <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I want to create a USB stick which runs Boinc (Windows and Linux)
>>>> automatic if the USB stick is inserted and attaches automatic to an
>>>>         
>>> weak
>>>       
>>>> account key of our team in a predefined project. So far this is
>>>>         
>>> working
>>>       
>>>> but I have 2 problems:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Boinc always starts in the advanced view and not in the simple
>>>>         
>>> view.
>>>       
>>>> How to ensure, that Boinc starts with the simple view?
>>>>
>>>> 2) How to run Boinc by default with an different skin? Boinc should
>>>>         
>>> run
>>>       
>>>> with the skin of our team. I a skin/our_team folder in the Boinc
>>>> directory with the complete skin. I'm als able to select this skin in
>>>> Boinc preferences. But how to enable this skin by default?
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> yoyo
>>>>
>>>>         
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