anyway to pause on installation?

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Knish
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anyway to pause on installation?

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sometimes the PC setup is not done perfectly so when FAH is installed, a WU is started only to see that... oof, it's folding on a single core as opposed to the intended GPU. Is there a way to have FAH immediately paused after installation so one can inspect the configs before trying to d/l a WU?

easier to manage physically by pulling the ethernet, but harder to do when setting up on the cloud.

thanks for any insight
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Re: anyway to pause on installation?

Post by PantherX »

In previous versions, when you first installed the client and started it, Web Control would wait for you to fill in a pop-up box with the details. If you closed it, it assumes that the client is configured and would start to fold. If you opened up FAHControl, it might wait for about 5 minutes before automatically start folding.

I have used the unplug LAN cable method as that's 100% effective but would be a challenge in cloud.

Maybe you can modify the host file as follows which would prevent any successful communication until everything is ready:

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#	127.0.0.1       assign1.foldingathome.org
#	127.0.0.1       assign2.foldingathome.org
#	127.0.0.1       assign3.foldingathome.org
#	127.0.0.1       assign4.foldingathome.org
ETA:
Now ↞ Very Soon ↔ Soon ↔ Soon-ish ↔ Not Soon ↠ End Of Time

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Knish
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Re: anyway to pause on installation?

Post by Knish »

tested it out, and looks like that'll work perfectly in the future, thanks!
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