Well, I am preparing myself for my Raspberry Pi Model B RASPBRRY-PCBA512 Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS.
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Steps that I have prepared myself so far with.
A1). Installed SDFormatterv4.
A2). Installed Win32DiskImager-0.9.5.
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Goals:
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B1). Picking an image. SCIPTA or HASHRA
B2). Asking if Sandor111 program is supported in either images of SCIPTA or HASHRA.
B3). Asking which Image would best fit me or my setup?
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Description:
I will be running five volt modded for higher overclock and fan volt modded 5-chip gridseeds. +one unmodded untouched as for now 5-chip gridseed. Grand total of 6 gridseeds.
Notes:
I do have a little experience with debian based OS's like, ubuntu, linuxmint.
I've used Scripta with three different versions of cgminer. While that rig works, it's not optimal. I get occasional cgminer crashes, which I've worked around by using daemontools to keep the miner software running. Sometimes a GridSeed will stop producing accepts, so I have to bounce cgminer. And lastly, there are certain features of Scripta that have just never worked for me (including the graphs).
If I was starting from scratch, I would go with Minera and Sandor111's cpuminer. I've been running that combo on a test rig for a couple of weeks and am happy. I've found cpuminer to be very stable, and it's auto tune function gets you close to optimal per-chip frequencies without a lot of messing around.
I'm hoping to move my main rig to Minera/cpuminer this weekend. I'm waiting on a new Minera feature of running cpuminer as a service.
So take a look at this thread. The OP (michelem) has a Raspberry Pi image:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/minera-v090-your-next-mining-dashboard-s9l3d3cpuminercgminerbfgminer-596620It's good that you have some *nix experience. While all of the above mentioned images strive to provide a mining appliance, there will definitely be some work that you will have to do to update, troubleshoot, and keep things running.