>From: Marc Getty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:23:18 -0500
>Subject: Mersenne: Mersenne Machine & Single Floppy LL Tester
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>Single Floppy LL Tester?
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>
>What would be good to have is an all in one magic Prime95 bootable
>floppy disk. I would find it incredibly useful to have a bootable
>disk that runs LL tests w/o an Windows operation system on the hard
>disk of the machine. ... If I
>could use these completely idle CPUs I could get perhaps 160 LL
>tests done that would not be done otherwise. I would also "burn-in"
>these machines at the same time. If anyone out there has a
>configuration like this already, please let me know!
>
>What I propose is to do one of the following:
>
>Method One
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>1. Make a bootable disk using MS-DOS or MS-Windows95's DOS, the end
>user must provide this for software licensing reasons, GIMPS can't
>go around giving out MS software. Win95 B or Win98 bootable would
>be preferred so FAT32 partitions can be "seen".
I like this idea. Would FreeDOS work? I don't think it has Fat32 yet... but
GIMPS could certainly give THAT out.
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>3. Being that rather large temporary files are created, often greater
>then a floppy disk, they can be temporarily redirected to the hard
>drive of the computer.
Assuming, of course, that your "floppy" is not a SuperDisk or a Zip.
If it is, why redirect?
>Method Two
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>Use a linux bootable disk with mprime on it set to automatically
>load on boot, again only manual testing, with temporary files
>redirected to the hard drive of the computer. The linux kernel
>would have to be both FAT32 aware, because most new machines
>ship with FAT32 formatted hard drives now. Hell, if you are really
>good network support could also be built into this disk!
>
>I am not a linux guru by any means, but I'm pretty sure this is
>possible, and can then be freely distributed as a disk image.
I REALLY like this idea.
If this disk got distributed, maybe put LS-120 (SuperDisk) drivers on the disk
for an alternate temporary files location as well. I know Linux has them.
Or just make a big ramdrive!
--Curtis
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