Topic: Jan 11 to Feb 11 Sidehack Compac Stick pool new 30 day run. Club to close Feb 12 - page 10. (Read 17139 times)

My friend's stick is now mining under my guard ;-)

sticks++

Herb

Sorry didn't know the address changed.  Will change shortly and please remove my S2 donation spot.

Ill take a look today.

Just an update: Datacentre us facing a power outage,  making poolmonitor unreachable. Ill let you know when power is back.

@ cryptoglance

I can't enter 42) http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Jan11Chris_Sabianstick


Jan11Chris_Sabianstick


I enter it says successful  and it does not show



 http://poolmonitor.cryptoglance.info/



I will try again  no go

So  is it the  _  between  Chris _   Sabianstick?

Thank you I'll take a look later .

The post notlist3d did has the link to the post I did, it would be the same for putting cgminer-gekko onto the Pi (Raspian is a Linux build) as it is for putting it onto a laptop/desktop computer (those are the steps I did putting cgminer-gekko onto my Pi).

If your talking about putting Raspbian onto the SD card to run the Pi, look at https://www.raspberrypi.org/, they have all the directions and links that you need to get the Pi running Raspbian and then just follow the steps from the above post.

EDIT: follow the steps for putting Raspbian onto the SD card, but change it to minera image you listed where they say Raspbian.

Does anyone know if there's a setup guide for using a RPI as a controller for these sticks? I did install the software listed on the OP of Sidehacks official support thread but didn't know how to get started even at the first command prompt as I haven't done anything like that before .

I might suggest looking at RPI.  They use so little electricity it makes a lot of sense when running a lotto miner.   I have a RPI 2 running right now on mine but a RPI 1 would work fine.

It is Linux if you use the raspbian OS.  So nice not messing with windows.  I highly suggest RPI route.

Sorry for the delay gents, I was out of town for the week. Just made the change, thanks.

http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Jan11n8dogf1stick

it very much depends on whether you want it to run in dual boot mode (win AND Ubuntu) or just replace windows with ubuntu (much easier).
Second, it depends won whether you have win 7 or win 8-10 computer. The latter ones have UEFI BIOS (instead of Legacy) and it really depends on the computer.
If yours is HP win8, I can provide some writeup.
This description is OK, but every BIOS is different:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/221835/installing-ubuntu-on-a-pre-installed-windows-with-uefi
In short:
1. first, you need to create a partition for Ubuntu by shrinking your Windows partition
1. then, you'll need to right click on startup, go to power options and unclick "fast startup" there.
this is described here:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html
2. then restart while holding the shift key...you will restart into "bluish menu"
then "Troubleshoot', then "UEFI firmware settings"
you will be asked to reboot or restart and you will be booted into BIOS where you can change things.
IMPORTANT:If Windows 8 was installed with UEFI enabled, it is highly recommended to stay in UEFI, although if you still want to disable it for specific reasons you can, GRUB will create the bootable part for Windows 8. But if you do disable UEFI and want to access Windows 8 afterwards (before installing Ubuntu), it will not work since the boot part for Windows 8 needs UEFI (Again the Dual Boot problem).

For my HP win 8.1 computer, all I needed to do was to change boot order from first being windows boot manager to first being DVD, second flash drive, then third Windows boot manager. The BIOS menu commands are archaic, but if you messed up, you can always save with default settings of save without changes and try again. The ONLY other thing that I had to do was to again disable fast boot, now in BIOS. I left secure boot and other settings in SECURITY area untouched because when I tried to do it, it wouldn't start from the DVD.
Then, save the BIOS settings and restart. Next time, insert ubuntu DVD or usb stick, again press Shift key on restart, but now in bluish menu click on UEFI icon, then chose your DVD or USB (it should also have UEFI in its title), then restart. Hopefully, you will be booted into ubuntu installer and proceed from there.

Jake36 provided an almost perfect writeup how to install cgminer-gekko on Linux (in support thread) with only caveat being that at the end you should
instead of cd cgminer-gekko, then run as sudo.

there was step by step on how to install linux on a pc   it is on a thread maybe mikestang told me  let me look back for the link

this is me getting annoyed with windows

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12416957
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12421972
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12422590
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12424007
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12446428
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12446428

all above are windows still looking for linux starts below

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12466273




https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12469877  ends here read the posts inbetween

and it was Jake36 that helped me the most.

What are you looking for?

Like totally step by step or like "ive installed ubuntu where do I go from here?"

The second one is more likely to get completed (its far shorter and easier).

I can do that if needed

Phil;

Do you have a short write up by chance on how to run the miners on Ubuntu?

keep working on it.  i gave up with windows 7, 8, 10

 I do linux on a pc  it runs the sticks and a full node

updated

I'm working on it! My cgminer wouldn't recognize the sticks again after a reboot so i tried updating my raspberry pi to fix it, and that of course broke everything. It's really unstable which is a bummer, and my configuration file won't save, blah blah blah.

Right so, things are broken, and I'll just have to re-install the OS again on the pi since it's all goofed now, and hopefully I'll be back online tonight or tomorrow morning. Pro tip: don't use a raspberry pi version 1, they're troublesome!

Updated it.

you can merge it with the sticks if you want  just change the  address on it to the one above.

http://solo.ckpool.org/workers/1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.Jan11VirosaGITSstick

You can prune the donation one for now, i'm not sure when/if i will replug a S1 for donation. Some miners may have old failover on it. Just don't track them, consider it a real untracked donation or such?

Thank you

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11)   Chris_Sabianstick active with old address

15)   baktegonStick  active with old address



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