03-21-2006, 01:10 PM
If you plan on using only the floppy disk for everything and not putting any files onto the hard drive (if there is one), then you won't be able to do Folding@Home too. There just isn't enough space on the floppy to hold everything. While the console application is relatively tiny, each of the FahCore_*.exe files that it will download is greater than 1.5 MB. Add to that the working data files it calculates. You need additional storage no matter how you slice it.
One way to get additional storage without using the hard drive is to use the computer's RAM as a virtual hard disk. This assumes that the computer has lots of RAM to spare. Maybe the Linux configurations you are exploring already use this technique.
One way to get additional storage without using the hard drive is to use the computer's RAM as a virtual hard disk. This assumes that the computer has lots of RAM to spare. Maybe the Linux configurations you are exploring already use this technique.