boinc and rosetta

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pgmrdlm

I am an individual that has contributed to the grid computing community now on ??? years. I know that you are able to contribute to seti and a few other projects using the existing boinc ports. FreeBSD port of Einstein is no longer supported. ;o(

I have recently created 2 new FreeBSD machines for the sole purpose of contributing to seti. Unfortunately, seti is down right now as they replace servers. So I have been hunting and pecking on the web to see if anyone has figured out how to crunch other projects on FreeBSD.

I found this link, which I have tried for crunching numbers for the Rosetta project.
http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/BSD_Linux-Compat_howto.html.
But when I attach the project, I receive the following message.
Code: 
14-Nov-2010 13:42:26 [rosetta@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-pc-freebsd' not found

I also found this link, which I have not tried.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=10249&offset=0
But this guy is making changes to both source files and make files. I also do not see a final post stating that his results were accepted.


So, has anyone gotten any project other than what is listed here http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/boinc.html to work on FreeBSD???

I would really like these two additional FreeBSD machines to assist in a project. To be truthful, that is the only reason I put them together.

As an additional note, I have tried using pure linux binaries but was unable to get them to work. I do not have a linux machine at my disposal to find out what additional libraries required as shown here in the handbook.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html
10.2.1.3 How to Install Additional Shared Libraries
What if you install the linux_base port and your application still complains about missing shared libraries? How do you know which shared libraries Linux binaries need, and where to get them? Basically, there are 2 possibilities (when following these instructions you will need to be root on your FreeBSD system).

If you have access to a Linux system, see what shared libraries the application needs, and copy them to your FreeBSD system. Look at the following example:

Let us assume you used FTP to get the Linux binary of Doom, and put it on a Linux system you have access to. You then can check which shared libraries it needs by running ldd linuxdoom, like so:
Code: 
% ldd linuxdoom
libXt.so.3 (DLL Jump 3.1) => /usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.3.1.0
libX11.so.3 (DLL Jump 3.1) => /usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.3.1.0
libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => /lib/libc.so.4.6.29
You would need to get all the files from the last column, and put them under /compat/linux, with the names in the first column as symbolic links pointing to them. This means you eventually have these files on your FreeBSD system:
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I wondered about the live cd

I know this may sound stupid, but I was thinking a live cd would be read only.

Thank you for the response.
 
The memory used by the Live CD installation contains a read/write file system, of course ;)
 
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