Thanks guys, the machine is left at my work I pop the 3rd drive in it tomorrow and bring her home to start the preclear. 

I would preclear from the server as you can have multiple shells open  example  alt+F1 alt+F2 alt+F3 and have 3 preclears running at once. I started a preclear using Putty on my win7 laptop. putty got closed and could no longer see progress of my preclear if it was even still running. I have read about "screen" which I did install, but have yet to get it to work successfully

 

-=Jason=-

I would preclear from the server as you can have multiple shells open  example  alt+F1 alt+F2 alt+F3 and have 3 preclears running at once. I started a preclear using Putty on my win7 laptop. putty got closed and could no longer see progress of my preclear if it was even still running. I have read about "screen" which I did install, but have yet to get it to work successfully

 

-=Jason=-

 

That is why you use screen.  You can have multiple instance in the same session, page between them, and detach so you can log off and then log back on later and re-attach the screen session.

I would preclear from the server as you can have multiple shells open  example  alt+F1 alt+F2 alt+F3 and have 3 preclears running at once. I started a preclear using Putty on my win7 laptop. putty got closed and could no longer see progress of my preclear if it was even still running. I have read about "screen" which I did install, but have yet to get it to work successfully

 

-=Jason=-

 

That is why you use screen.  You can have multiple instance in the same session, page between them, and detach so you can log off and then log back on later and re-attach the screen session.

 

Matt, like I said I have screen installed, but I have no idea how to use it. I have read the wiki online, but I have yet to get it to work for me.

 

-=Jason=-

Should be as easy as going to the directory where you put screen and typing screen.  Should look like it clears the screen and then just a regular command prompt.  From there all the Ctrl-a commands should work.  If you detach (Ctrl-a d) then to get back to the screen session you had, you just type "screen -r" from the command prompt.