Folding USB Stick

Download the files(16MB) and unzip them on to a blank memory stick.
Download syslinux as appropriate for your OS:

Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 here
Windows 95, 98, ME here
Linux here

From a command prompt run "syslinux <device>" where <device> is the device or drive letter of the USB stick, e.g. "syslinux X:" for Windows, "./syslinux /dev/sda1" for Linux (should not be mounted). If it complains about unable to lock the device for exclusive access, ignore the warning.

Edit the file syslinux.cfg and change the USER and TEAM options to get it to fold for you rather than me. You may also want to change BIG=yes to BIG=no to avoid large WU depending on your network. SMPCPUS can be set to 2 or 4 and specifies how many processors are used per SMP instance. REBOOT can be set to enabled or disabled to add or remove a link to allow remote rebooting to the machine's webpage, and INSTALL to yes or no to allow or deny installation on to the first two USB memory sticks or disk drives at boot time - useful for cloning the install.

Boot your machine from the USB stick. Note that not all machines like booting from USB sticks, even if the option is there in the BIOS.

N.B. Please comply with the F@H terms of service and only use this on computers you own / have permission. Law enforcement agencies have been involved in previous unauthorised use of computers for folding!

Notes

Only shut off or reboot the machine when it is not accessing the stick. All sticks I have seen have flashing lights on them, fast flash is being accessed, slow flash is not. If you do pull out the stick / power off / reboot whilst the stick is being accessed, you will need to run scandisk/chkdsk/fsck or whatever to fix the filesystem.
It will run an instance of folding per processor that it finds (logical processor, so 2 on hyperthreading and dual-core CPUs) or if there are multiple x86_64 processors it will run an SMP client per 4 processors.
Instances of folding are stored in the directories 1, 2 etc. that it creates on the USB stick.
You only need motherboard, processor (with heatsink/fan!), memory and a supported network connection (just about any PCI or onboard Ethernet card supported by Linux). Keyboard is ignored, if you do have a video card and monitor it will show progress of the first folding instance on the screen.
To monitor the machine, just point your web browser at it. Alternatively, the machine exports the ramdisk via Windows Networking and the folding files are in \\$Machine\C\etc\folding\$Instance.
If you have a TFTP server and your DHCP server advertises it, the work will get backed up at the specified interval into the following 3 files
backup.$IP.A.$Instance backup.$IP.B.$Instance latest.$IP.$Instancewhere $IP is the IP address and $Instance is the instance being backed up. You typically need to initially create empty versions of these files on your TFTP server and make them writable by all for this to work. It will also backup and restore from up to 2 USB drives if present.
If you have any further questions, hit the "TR Distributed Computing Effort" forum at The Tech Report and ask "notfred".
This software is covered by the GNU Public License Version 2. The source and a bug / feature traker are hosted by SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/foldingcd/ and this link must be redistributed with the CD image.

News
13 August 08: Add hang check for core_a2 where core is in stopped state at end and so no new WU is downloaded. VM memory increase to 640MB based on reports of out of space with new WUs. VM disk space increase to 1GB based on reports of out of space.
3 August 08: Add libraries for FahCore_a2.exe (SMP Gromacs CVS core). Add support for enabling -advmethods. Add support for setting memory size. Fix big packet options to match new choices in version 6 client. Minor fix on when to encrypt the proxy password.
17 July 08: Change URL to released (i.e. non-beta) version of 6.02 client. Add support for specifying TFTP server IP if doing static IP config. Add support for specifying interface, if specified and DHCP it will retry continuously in the foreground and not round robin in the background. Add support for doing a login shell, note that this has very few commands available.
24 June 08: Fix 1959158 - Add support for static network config.
23 June 08: Fix 1853657 - Add support for proxy web access.
9 June 08: Fix 1914982 - Add 30 secs to auto-return to home page after remote reboot. Fix 1853837 - Official VMWare Appliance. Fix 1922071 - Version Numbers & Add to Web Interface. Fix 1853668 - Make options selectable / changeable at boot screen - this gives a built-in Folding CD Generator and the ability to reconfigure the USB stick or VMWare Apliance.
26 March 08: Stanford upgraded the beta and moved the download location - again.
14 March 08: Upgrade to new kernel version (support more network cards), glibc and busybox. Fix 1881099 - Add folding directory link to web interface. Fix 1880850 - Optional enable of screen blanking. Fix 1914624 - Configurable Workgroup. Fix 1914625 - Disabling of nmbd and smbd.
1 March 08: Fix a bug in the hang check - wasn't killing cores with a 0 in the PID. Fix 1903637 - Add kill link to homepage. Fix 1870815 - Allow SMP per 2 CPUs.
2 February 08: Fixed install after move to SourceForge. Added autoreturn to homepage after reboot. Added the Benchmark CD as a boot option. Changed to FAH version 6 Beta 2.
11 January 08: Moved source and bug / feature tracking to SourceForge. Fixed a couple of issues in the SMP hang check - now supports multiple SMP instances (if you have more than 4 processors) and still does the kill if the Autosend text happens after the hang. Also added a check that the download from Stanford didn't error and if it did print troubleshooting suggestions and stop there.
28 November 07: Fixed Guest account for SMB support.
27 November 07: Added SMB server support, should allow monitoring by FAHMon etc.
21 November 07: Fixed syntax error in expr in autodetect of SMP hang.
20 November 07: Removed previous links with an autodetect of SMP hang and kill -9 of the cores if that is the case, warning will kill all cores on multiple SMP instances if you have more than 4 logical processors.
13 November 07: Add additional kill -9 link as previous link doesn't seem to cut it.
5 November 07: Add link to kill any remaining FahCore_a1.exe processes if SMP is hung at 100%.
22 October 07: Fix hostname to request a default hostname from DHCP and use any DHCP supplied one, if no DHCP supplied one then go with the default. Default is "fold-ABCD" where ABCD are the last 4 characters of the interface MAC address.
21 October 07: Fix INSTALL option on CD generator webpage. Fix /tmp permissions. Fix install to USB drive B.
12 October 07: Change URL to match new Stanford website.
2 October 07: Update to FAH version 6 Beta 1 for both SMP and normal clients. Fix Makefile to build on Ubuntu 7.04 64bit. N.B. Version string was previously back to front, remove version.txt from any USB sticks before running this version to get an automatic update if the install option is enabled.
19 September 07: Major rewrite! New Makefile build system. Change from an initrd to initramfs. Upgrade to kernet 2.6.22.1 for more network drivers. Work with any connected ethernet interface (eth0 - eth9) rather than just eth0. Fixed detecting extra processor if string "processor in the model name. Really finally remove hangcheck timer on 64bit (I hope!). Detect VirtualPC in addition to VMWare when deciding if to run NTP to sync time. Detects 32bit or 64bit - one image for both. Remote reboot option. Install to up to two USB drives on boot option. Run without logging to the console. Removed -advmethods from SMP - may not be any WUs available and fallback may be broken. Added -verbosity 9 to both to improve debug. Backup and restore works with up to 2 USB drives as well as with the old TFTP.
25 April 07: Bump VMWare memory a bit more to 512MB.
24 April 07: Really remove hangcheck timer from 64 bit (was only removed from 32 bit). Add backup link plus more info on webpage. Add configurable backup time including core checkpoint if in valid range (3-30 mins), default backup is set to 15, set to 0 to disable. Change CD Generator to work with / and reserve # as per Stanford. Increase VMWare .vmx file memory to avoid out of memory crashes. Detect VMWare and only run NTP if VMWare not found.
3 April 07: Corrected VMWare stuff to VMWare Server for SMP version and updated the .vmx file with 2 CPUs.
2 April 07: Kernel patch for SKB errors plus remove hangcheck timer (doesn't work in VMWare)
20 Mar 07: New 64 bit version for SMP folding
27 Oct 06: Updated kernel to use ACPI - should correctly pickup SMP on all systems now. Added dmesg.txt and cpuinfo.txt files accessible from the browser to help with any future processor detection issues.
18 Sep 06: New version uploaded, removed wine as no longer necessary (Linux and Windows cores now using same compiler) and updated kernel to 2.6.17.2 to support Core 2 Duo Motherboards. Also released source to comply with GPL.
20 Aug 05: New version uploaded, now uses wine to run the windows console client for improved performance.
13 Aug 05: New version uploaded, correctly handles HTML encoding of non-alphanumeric characters.
11 Aug 05: New version uploaded, now checks for TFTP server IP in DHCP before trying to backup/restore to it.
7 Aug 05: New version uploaded, doesn't try to backup/restore via TFTP as caused issues with some routers. If you tried before and it got stuck saying "to" then this should fix it.