Exci
12-14-2005, 12:39 PM
Morning all,
You folks seem fairly versed in working with the various boinc flavors out there.
Back in the day, we did a network install to all our machines with the 4.43 client (recommended version at that time). It's ancient and doesn't display the graphics. Since the install was automated from the server, it's a real pain to uninstall or upgrade.
In fact, it won't go away. It errors out on uninstall or when trying to upgrade. When you can't get rid of something as a domain admin, or as the windows system account, it's pretty well entrenched.
I can, however, copy over the files in the directory.
Is upgrading to a 5x client as easy as replacing some files, or are there other system settings that go along with it?
If it is that easy, anyone know of a place I can get the extracted files? The .exe installer from the boinc site won't install anywhere on my machine, so I can't install it to a temp folder to get the files.
Thanks mucho,
Ethan
You folks seem fairly versed in working with the various boinc flavors out there.
Back in the day, we did a network install to all our machines with the 4.43 client (recommended version at that time). It's ancient and doesn't display the graphics. Since the install was automated from the server, it's a real pain to uninstall or upgrade.
In fact, it won't go away. It errors out on uninstall or when trying to upgrade. When you can't get rid of something as a domain admin, or as the windows system account, it's pretty well entrenched.
I can, however, copy over the files in the directory.
Is upgrading to a 5x client as easy as replacing some files, or are there other system settings that go along with it?
If it is that easy, anyone know of a place I can get the extracted files? The .exe installer from the boinc site won't install anywhere on my machine, so I can't install it to a temp folder to get the files.
Thanks mucho,
Ethan