SheepOS is a very lightweight Distro based on Porteus / Slackware for the free and distributed render farm SheepIt.
This is the XFCE version, you can find the CLI version here.
- Download the ISO and extract it (e.g. with Ark or 7zip) to a FAT32 formatted USB drive.
- Boot from it
- enjoy xD
- min. 2GB RAM, the more the better ;)
Note: As far as I know, this method make's an image that only works for virtual machines.
- Go the boot media.
- Go to the porteus folder.
- There should be a make_iso.sh file. Right click, then click, Open terminal here.
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Type,
sh make_iso.sh. -
Type the location, the name, and extension of the image. Example:
/dev/sdb/images/ImageName.iso
This one is a bit more complicated, but doable. Also, watch out on the allowed maximum RAM usage.
- Go the boot media.
- Go to the porteus folder.
- Go to the base.
- Right click on the SheepIt module, and extract it.
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Delete the .xzm module, so that we can free up a bit of space.
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Change the settings, that you can see hidden files and folders, by pressing Ctrl + H
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Go to the extracted module (sheepit-module-xfce), then home, and finally guest.
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Open
.sheepit.conf. -
Edit the line number 2 from
falsetotrue.
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Save and close the text editor.
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Now, open
SheepItClient.sh. -
Edit the 4th line with your username and password/renderkey.
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Save and close the text editor.
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Head back to the
basefolder. -
Right click on the SheepIt module folder, and then
Create xzm module.
13.1. (Optional) Delete the module folder.
- Reboot!
//TODO
- This distro supports only CPU rendering for now.
- If you use the copy2RAM option, you can unplug the boot media after the distro had booted. But it comes at the price of highr RAM usage.
[ ] Make that you simply need to burn the ISO, instead of extracting it.