I suggest trying a live usb of Debian -
https://www.debian.org/. With live usb you can run off a usb stick and not even have to do a install on HD.
But I found windows to be a pain with drivers I used 7 and 8. Went to debian and no issues. Then I went to RPI and raspbian (which is built off debian) and still working great.
With linux just no messing with the drivers and very very nice.
Okay I loaded wheezy to an i5 4570t
and the pc will only run the sticks.
so how do I load software like cgminer.
what link is good to load?
I am running just regular 4.9.2 with Icarus. You can get a guide pretty close on here -
http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/Before it try in terminal - apt get upgrade
That will upgrade a lot of things.
Some commands might require sudo in front as root access. I even went overboard and ran cgminer as root.
I also looked at guide in this thread and added the following to make sure I had all possible things needed. Again it's overboard if someone takes time they could clean it up for sure.
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config libncurses5-dev libudev-dev
Also used icarus cgminer running not the old cgminer it mentions on that guide something like:
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr --au3-freq 150
okay so my run time on debian is about 2 minutes life time starting today.
the guide reads
3) apt-get stuff.
apt-get install autoconf gcc make git libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libjansson-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
First things first, open terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade (this will update the the system) it will ask do you want to continue y/n hit y and enter.
After it updates, sudo reboot (to be sure updates are active).
Then in terminal window again
sudo apt-get install autoconf libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev
(you may get a message saying you need another package installed to install some of the above, if you do, just add it to the above)
Again y/n hit y enter
After it's done,
wget
http://gekkoscience.com/misc/cgminer-gekko.tar.gz (fixed)
tar xvzf cgminer-gekko.tar.gz (fixed)
cd cgminer-gekko (fixed)
./autogen.sh
./configure –enable-gekko --disable-libcurl (cgminer doesn't need it, but linux does to build)
sudo make install (you don't have to do the install)
While still in the cgminer-gekko dir,
sudo cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ (if it does not copy, sudo su enter then cp 01-cgminer.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ )
sudo usermod -G plugdev -a whoami (whoami= your user name you setup)
sudo reboot
After it restarts open terminal
cd cgminer-gekko
sudo ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://whateverpool:XXXX -u poolusername.andworkerifyouwant --compac-freq XXX
Not familiar with wheezy, but you might be able to copy/past the comands and then just fill,answer,hit enter when it asks.
EDIT: fixed
will print this and try it on the debian os.
Yeah my garage looks cool at night.
