Maths, cooperation, other exclamations as fitting

This page is neither about the GIMPS project nor PrimeNet which coordinate it, but only about a slightly nonstandard use of the mprime program written by George Woltman.
This use it as a cpu testing and burn in tool, for which it is quite good, since it's exercising almost every part of the cpu for as long as needed.

As a first test I've made a bootable, though limited, linux system what will fit on a single floppy. To use it, you download the image(1440KB), then write it to a floppy. To do this, you'll need a tool that will do a raw copy such as rawwrite for dos or if you're in Linux, you can do:

dd if=MersTest of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440

Once copied, it's a matter of letting the machine boot from tha floppy, then at the prompt, log in as root and run mprime -m
Note that if you get a segfault when starting it, the most probable cause it lack of memory, since the program doesn't do all the tests it should.

recovery disk

This has spun off in a recovery disk(1440KB) containing everything needed (hopefully) to recover on a not too unusual Linux system.

It should be copied to a floppy as mentioned previously.