Boinc Projects For Newbies
Follow the directions on any Boinc project site that explain how to get started.
Or
be lazy and read here
1) Visit a project(s) website of the project(s) you wish to join and create account(s).
2) Receive the email(s) and confirm your account(s) creation.
3) Create a folder in your home directory, or on your desktop or in Applications called Boinc.
4) Download the regular boinc client from the Project page of your choice.
5) Put the unarchived(drop the downloaded file on StuffIt Expander if Safari doesn't do it for you) boinc client in the Boinc folder (usually called boinc_4.19_powerpc_apple_darwin or the like.
6) Open /Applications/Utilities and launch Terminal.app
7) Type
cd
and a space and drag your Boinc folder from the Finder window into the Terminal session window with the letters cd. You get something like this
cd /Applications/Boinc
8) With the Terminal window in front of you, Hit return
9) Type
./boi
then hit control-D and it should auto complete the full client name for you like this
./boinc_4.19_powerpc_apple_darwin
if not, either type the full name or drag the file icon for the boinc client to the Terminal window like you did with the Boinc Folder.
10) With the Terminal window in front of you, Hit return
11) Since this is the first time you are running Boinc it will ask for a project to attach to.
12) Copy the Project URL from the confirmation email for the project you received, like
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu, and paste it into the Terminal window and hit Return.
13) It will now ask you for your project user ID, copy it from the project confirmation email and paste it into the Terminal window and hit return.
14) If all is well, boinc will attach to the project and run CPU benchmarks and begin working. If not you did something wrong, try again.
15) Now that you are running, you can stop and attach to other projects. With the Terminal window in front of you, hit control and C and it will say
Exit requested by user
and stop.
16) Type, or drag or auto-complete
./boinc_4.19_powerpc_apple_darwin
again and add a space and -attach_project
like this
./boinc_4.19_powerpc_apple_darwin -attach_project
and hit return.
17) Type in the project URL of the next project you would like to attach to and the user id from the confirmation email for that project.
18) Hit control and C to stop the client and repeat the previous steps for each project you wish to attach too.
19) Now that you are all set and running, ok, either start the client and make sure it runs for a while and returns work units, or assume it is all good and grab an optimized client from the Team MacNN client page.
20) Download the client for your CPU G3/4/5 and place the expanded client in your existing Boinc directory.
21) in Terminal, kill the currently running client with Control C and start up the optimized client by typing
./boinc_4.19_ppcG4
or auto-completing or draging the file from the Finder to the Terminal window.
22) Hit return and you are now running the optimized client.
If you already understand all this, then you can just start with the optimized client, or the DomPack which contains all the optimized clients for each CPU type (for farmers).
The Optimized Seti workers don't seem to work correctly with boinc_4.19, so you are on your own if you want to play with them.
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