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This is a series of scripts and files to create a minimal CD, USB or network
bootable image that will run a Folding@Home client instance.

The Folding CD can only be built on a 64bit (x86_64) system and will build an
image that will only work on 64bit (x86_64) systems.

The Diskless Folding zip file (for PXE boot) is derived from The Folding CD
and is also built. It appears as diskless.zip in the base directory.

The Folding USB stick zip file (for USB boot) is derived from The Folding CD and
is also built. It appears as usb.zip in the base directory.

The build system uses a standard Makefile. Interesting targets are:
all:         folding_cd.iso diskless.zip usb.zip
install_net: Installs a PXE boot in to /var/lib/tftpboot
install_web: Publishes everything to /var/www/reilly/folding including scripts
             and necessary files to /usr/lib/cgi-bin

The Folding CD makes use of the following Open Source Software
licensed under the GPLv2:
Linux Kernel
Syslinux
Busybox
GlibC

In order to build, you will need an up to date installation of Ubuntu 15.04 with
the following additional packages installed:
apt-get install nasm zip genisoimage libmpfr-dev libgmp3-dev libmpc-dev \
                libc6-dev-i386 lib32gcc1 gcc-multilib g++-multilib git-core \
                qemu cmake libcap-dev mingw32 libncurses5-dev gettext \
                autoconf libtool texinfo uuid-dev upx libbz2-dev

This software downloads the folding client and cores from Stanford to comply
with the Folding@Home license.

Folding CD was originally developed by Nick Reilly and has been updated by
Thomas Pike of the Crossroads Foundation:

   Copyright 2011-2014 Crossroads Foundation Ltd <[email protected]>
   Copyright 2006-2009 Nick Reilly - All Rights Reserved

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 53 Temple Place Ste 330,
   Boston MA 02111-1307, USA; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version; incorporated herein by reference.