Re: Getting Seti Program to work in Linux


Subject: Re: Getting Seti Program to work in Linux
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 19:12:11 MST


Funny running seti made my system unbootable again? Something about disk
space? The last thing I did was to clicked on the seti Icon in X windows I
could hear the hardrive spinning for a long time and then it was all over?

Roy Koch wrote:

> Thanks I am booting on a Jazz drive 1 mb and when you gave me he files I
> went back to linux to boot and could not boot I fear my disk is full and I
> have no idea how to get back in to delete some files so I can boot? The
> disk wont boot under X windows for sure?
> The full disk may be why I could not run settee I know I should be using a
> real hardrive so oh well?
> Phil Kirschner wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the ppc-glibc version of the seti client to my YDL box,
> > un-tarred it, made the setiathome file executable, and it worked
> > fine. There was really good documentation that came with it, so I
> > was able to get it running smoothly in the background where it
> > wouldn't bother anybody.
> >
> > Here is the file I downloaded....
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-1.3.powerpc-unknown-linu
> > x-gnu-glibc1.tar
> > ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-1.3.powerpc-unknown-linux-
> > gnu-glibc1.tar
> > ftp://setidata.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-1.3.powerpc-unknown-lin
> > ux-gnu-glibc1.tar
> >
> > Let me know if you have problems with it.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > >My Yellowdog Linux is working just fine My big problem is getting some
> > >of the programs to run "Executable files" the last one I tried to run
> > >was "Seti" from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ I know this is not
> > >a Yellowdog problem I learned that just because a program is a Linux
> > >program does not mean that it will run under the Yellowdog environment.
> > >Will someone help me out?
> >
> > " Ill believe computers can think when you ask one question
> > and it replies, "That reminds me of a story. "
> >
> > -Gregory Bateson



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