Help installing BOINC on Ubuntu Flash Drive

[slaveondope]

Im stumped and Im a complete noob when it comes to Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu the latest version on a 2gb flash drive. I boot in without install and download BOINC again latest version. Change the permissions of the install file and the open boinc manager. Setup my projects and all it run benchmarks the normal stuff then get
"Message from server: Resent lost result X0000083881301200702151035_0"
"[error] App version has unsupported platform i686-pc-linux-gnu"
"[error] No application found for task: i686-pc-linux-gnu 608 ; discarding

I dont no my arse from my elbow with this OS so your help would be greatly appreciated.

[D_A]

Are you using the 32bit or 64bit version? If it's the 64bit one you need to install the 32bit libraries for the science applications to work. The instructions are in a few threads but the closest is the one about linux and HCC work.

[Jaco]

here's the command to install the necessary 32 bit libraries . open up a terminal window and type in this command.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

how to guide:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ghlight=ubuntu

[D_A]

You could need a little more depending on what's included with 10.04:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libstdc++6 libstdc++5 freeglut3

[slaveondope]

I installed the 32bit os and boinc so Im done with it.
Maybe another day I'll try to get 64 bit going.
Thanks DA and Jaco.

[jcool]

I had the exact same error message 2 days back. Fix was easy, just like D_A and Jaco said.
Open terminal, type in "sudo apt-get install ia32-libs", then reboot the machine after it's finished. Then fire up BOINC x64 and it'll work just fine.
I forgot to reboot at first...

[D_A]

It's a little thing, but unlike Windows, when you install a 64bit Linux OS you often get a PURE 64bit OS. No 32bit stuff in there AT ALL. Given how long our hardware has been 64bit, there's little excuse for so much software to be stuck in 32bit Land, but in MS-ville it seems most of it is so people expect to be able to run "whatever". The only reason I have any 32bit libraries on my systems (not counting the Sossaman of course, which actually IS a 32bit system) is to run WCG. Other than that everything is compiled for 64bit and multi-processor operation.

[slaveondope]

I tried the command line but after reboot none of the files Ive saved are still there well files mean boinc.

[shoota]

in order to restart and keep files when using a usb doesn't the install have to be persistent or something like that?