I've been running Boinc on my flash drive so that I don't have to run my computers all the time (being Green). I just move my flash drive to whatever computer I want to run (Windows XP). I tried this with 6.2.14 and it does not seem to work "System needs to reboot to run Boinc". It doesn't update the Boinc files on the flash drive during reboot.

I've been running Boinc on my flash drive so that I don't have to run my computers all the time (being Green). I just move my flash drive to whatever computer I want to run (Windows XP).

Note that will break projects that use homogeneous redundancy. If a project sends a workunit to an Intel machine, and makes sure all its replications go only to Intel machines too, the workunit will be invalid if you then plug your flash drive to an AMD machine.

I tried this with 6.2.14 and it does not seem to work "System needs to reboot to run Boinc". It doesn't update the Boinc files on the flash drive during reboot.

Wow, that was the only error?

It would need quite a few changes to make BOINC work from a flash drive. For example, the installer creates new user accounts in the computer. If you then move the flash drive to a Windows installation without those users, it wouldn't run at all.

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BOINC 6.2.14 has locked down the folders and the projects rights quite a bit. On windows machines it creates several new user IDs on the computer. It then uses these user IDs to restrict where the projects can read and write.

You might be able to install BOINC on each of these machines once to get it to work.

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