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Quote from: EnzoMatrix on July 29, 2011, 10:45:17 PM

What needs to be done to run LinuxCoin on a non ATI graphics card ( don't need to mine ) but would be nice to make it easier to configure things and run a bitcoin client from going to use it to pxe my mining rigs from and run SmartCoin once it is fully multi rig compatible

I have been frustrated at my attempts to make it work with nvidia or cpu with both guiminer and bitminter.com. I know they suck but wanted to be able to at least demo something to those without good gear.

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What needs to be done to run LinuxCoin on a non ATI graphics card ( don't need to mine ) but would be nice to make it easier to configure things and run a bitcoin client from going to use it to pxe my mining rigs from and run SmartCoin once it is fully multi rig compatible

--Enzo

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BitCoin Client Selection Suggestions.

PASSWORD
Being that you mentioned you were re-doing the Password issues of the secure bitcoin selection I did not bother to test as I had planned but will offer this set of suggestions:

I strongly suggest that you do *not* have a secure and non secure bitcoin client options. This will invariably lead to supreme confusion with average users.

Just have one bitcoin selection which asks for a password (none of that silly mount dev stuff please). The password can be (I would suggest this on fresh startup). Upon successful entry of existing password user should be allowed option to change password or continue directly to bitcoin client.

BACKUP
It would be extremely helpful if there was an easy (GUI) way for the user to email the encrypted wallet.dat file (with the same password used for entry to bitcoin). It would be best if this file could be unencrypted in both windows and Linux, but if only Linuxcoin that will suffice.

BOOTUP
Please get something on screen quicker and leave the splash screen, or at least text saying one moment please. Those long black screens make one feel like nothing is happening.

SHUTDOWN
Seems to take forever and that black screen of death sucks. Do something as soon as I click shutdown and let me know when to take out the usb like the last version did. I seem to wait an eternity and when I do yank the usb it freaks out and vomits text all over the screen

BROWSER
The new browser is ugly and seems incredibly slow. I would prefer a return to chromium. It would be *really* nice if java was installed.

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Mounting live-rw from within non-persistent boot of 0.2-prefinal didn't work, seems to be write protected. I did the update, upgrade from within 0.2-prefinal persistent. I think I'll just re-image the 0.2-prefinal and start over. Maybe boot into non-persistent before updating, upgrading?

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 08:45:41 PM

Both of the first bugs you pointed out have been fixed in the final version and I will be updating the repository to reflect this soon. I really need to spend some time packing up the final version so may not bee untill sunday I'm afraid.

If I understood the repository-thing correctly, than I do not need to make a complete new persistance usb, I can update then over internet, right?

Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 08:45:41 PM

You last question the information is on the wiki. Take a look at

http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/wiki/index.php/SSH_X11forwarding and http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/wiki/index.php/SettingupVNCremotely

Thank you for your help. I tried to setup ssh_x11, but during the connect from windows, putty is prompting me for a password, which I do not know... Cry

Is there a standard-password?

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Quote from: Jessi on July 29, 2011, 08:40:01 PM

Today I installed the pre-final. During installation I followed this instructions: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.msg286940#msg286940

First it seemed that everything was fine, but there where some little things I am wondering about.
Sometimes when linuxcoin is starting, it is asking me for a password, which I can bypass, by pressing enter. Because I normally do not have a keyboard attached to this machine, it would be better, if this would not happen. Does anyone know how I can stop this screen from appearing?

If I try to shutdown the computer by using the red button in the right bottom corner, I always ending up in a black screen with a blinking white cursor on the upper left. Because I would sometimes shutdon the computer remote, I need to know why this is happening and how I can stop this.

The third is more a question:
can anyone tell me, how can I make the "Remote Desktop" autostarting with correct settings?

The Idea behind all of the above is, to control the machine completely remotly, but the actual behavior makes it impossible for me, to shutdown or restart the machine without having a hand on it.

Thank you for your help. ;-)

Both of the first bugs you pointed out have been fixed in the final version and I will be updating the repository to reflect this soon. I really need to spend some time packing up the final version so may not bee untill sunday I'm afraid.

You last question the information is on the wiki. Take a look at

http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/wiki/index.php/SSH_X11forwarding and http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/wiki/index.php/SettingupVNCremotely

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Today I installed the pre-final. During installation I followed this instructions: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.msg286940#msg286940

First it seemed that everything was fine, but there where some little things I am wondering about.
Sometimes when linuxcoin is starting, it is asking me for a password, which I can bypass, by pressing enter. Because I normally do not have a keyboard attached to this machine, it would be better, if this would not happen. Does anyone know how I can stop this screen from appearing?

If I try to shutdown the computer by using the red button in the right bottom corner, I always ending up in a black screen with a blinking white cursor on the upper left. Because I would sometimes shutdon the computer remote, I need to know why this is happening and how I can stop this.

The third is more a question:
can anyone tell me, how can I make the "Remote Desktop" autostarting with correct settings?

The Idea behind all of the above is, to control the machine completely remotly, but the actual behavior makes it impossible for me, to shutdown or restart the machine without having a hand on it.

Thank you for your help. ;-)

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You could setup a nfs and mount that apon boot or send everything via ssh after booting ? I am looking into this but doing this properly is going to be a big job. I was thinking of some sort of watchdog that sends the files and starts up mining on the nodes once the server detects a reboot.

Quote from: mikeo on July 29, 2011, 08:02:59 PM

Quote from: mikeo on July 29, 2011, 04:06:47 PM

Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 09:58:34 AM

Sorry to bump my thread but thought this was worth bumping !! Cheesy

LinuxCoin now has it's own debian repository. Now you can update your system without re downloading your ISO !! For now if you are running prefinal you can do the following.

Code:

rm /etc/apt/sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the following into that file

Code:

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/apt sensi main

Save that file and continue with the following steps.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install bitcoin cgminer diablominer guiminer hashkill phoenix poclbm

Did the above today -- took about 30 minutes to download, unpack and install it all. However, when I booted the updated, upgraded 0.2-final it got all the way to the final desktop and seemed to be running (I inserted another USB flash drive and the filemanager popped up) but my keyboard and mouse weren't seen. :-/

Ops you've upgraded to the latest kernel aswell Sad

I forgot about them being in there. I'll fix that up tomorrow. Hold on two secs I'll upload some files for you to replace.

EDIT:

Go over and download the initrd and vmlinuz files here And replace the ones located in /live on your usb stick. next time you boot you will have full functionality again.

Nope, that didn't work. USB Keyboard and mouse still not seen.
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What version are you running ? It sounds like you've managed to upgrade your kernel from somewhere. when I tried the following steps on 0.2.1b I had no problems which is strange.

If you boot without persistence then mount your persistence space. If your using a persistent file this will be located in /live/image. so you can mount like so.

Code:

mkdir filesys
mount /live/image/live-rw filesys

Then copy your boot files across.

Code:

rm /live/image/{vmlinuz,initrd.img}
cp --preserve filesys/boot/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} /live/image

And reboot. If this works post back and I'll give you the rest of the instructions on how to upgrade to the latest kernel.

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Quote from: mikeo on July 29, 2011, 04:06:47 PM

Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 09:58:34 AM

Sorry to bump my thread but thought this was worth bumping !! Cheesy

LinuxCoin now has it's own debian repository. Now you can update your system without re downloading your ISO !! For now if you are running prefinal you can do the following.

Code:

rm /etc/apt/sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the following into that file

Code:

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/apt sensi main

Save that file and continue with the following steps.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install bitcoin cgminer diablominer guiminer hashkill phoenix poclbm

Did the above today -- took about 30 minutes to download, unpack and install it all. However, when I booted the updated, upgraded 0.2-final it got all the way to the final desktop and seemed to be running (I inserted another USB flash drive and the filemanager popped up) but my keyboard and mouse weren't seen. :-/

Ops you've upgraded to the latest kernel aswell Sad

I forgot about them being in there. I'll fix that up tomorrow. Hold on two secs I'll upload some files for you to replace.

EDIT:

Go over and download the initrd and vmlinuz files here And replace the ones located in /live on your usb stick. next time you boot you will have full functionality again.
[/quote]

Nope, that didn't work. USB Keyboard and mouse still not seen.

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 04:50:57 PM

Everythings included to do that checkout /opt/PXE. I have a video ready to upload talking you through it but here's a quick guide.

cd over to /opt/PXE and open up globals.sh
Set your parameters and make sure you enter a nameserver. most can stay as they are you jest want to worry about
NET_NIC = internet facing network adapter
SRV_NIC = adapter you want to run the server from
NAMESERVERS = your nameserver. You can run nameserver.sh to get yours or use googles which is 8.8.8.8

save and close.

next run pxe_menu.sh
choose option 1
choose option 2
quit

and your golden Cheesy

Plug your nodes into your switch and each computer will boot linuxcoin PXE and be ready to roll.

How does persistence work with this type of setup for things like passwords and custom scripts timezone settings and this sort of thing?

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Quote from: EnzoMatrix on July 29, 2011, 04:04:02 PM

How hard would it be to setup linuxcoin to act as a internet gateway? I am wanting to install LinuxCoin on a older laptop that will simply be there to act as a internet connection and a PXE server for my actual mining rigs that way it can isolate the mining rigs from the outside world and I wont need a drive / cdrom / thumb drive for the mining rigs.

--Enzo

Everythings included to do that checkout /opt/PXE. I have a video ready to upload talking you through it but here's a quick guide.

cd over to /opt/PXE and open up globals.sh
Set your parameters and make sure you enter a nameserver. most can stay as they are you jest want to worry about
NET_NIC = internet facing network adapter
SRV_NIC = adapter you want to run the server from
NAMESERVERS = your nameserver. You can run nameserver.sh to get yours or use googles which is 8.8.8.8

save and close.

next run pxe_menu.sh
choose option 1
choose option 2
quit

and your golden Cheesy

Plug your nodes into your switch and each computer will boot linuxcoin PXE and be ready to roll.

Quote from: mikeo on July 29, 2011, 04:06:47 PM

Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 09:58:34 AM

Sorry to bump my thread but thought this was worth bumping !! Cheesy

LinuxCoin now has it's own debian repository. Now you can update your system without re downloading your ISO !! For now if you are running prefinal you can do the following.

Code:

rm /etc/apt/sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the following into that file

Code:

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/apt sensi main

Save that file and continue with the following steps.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install bitcoin cgminer diablominer guiminer hashkill phoenix poclbm

Did the above today -- took about 30 minutes to download, unpack and install it all. However, when I booted the updated, upgraded 0.2-final it got all the way to the final desktop and seemed to be running (I inserted another USB flash drive and the filemanager popped up) but my keyboard and mouse weren't seen. :-/

Ops you've upgraded to the latest kernel aswell Sad

I forgot about them being in there. I'll fix that up tomorrow. Hold on two secs I'll upload some files for you to replace.

EDIT:

Go over and download the initrd and vmlinuz files here And replace the ones located in /live on your usb stick. next time you boot you will have full functionality again.

mikeo

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Quote from: drgr33n on July 29, 2011, 09:58:34 AM

Sorry to bump my thread but thought this was worth bumping !! Cheesy

LinuxCoin now has it's own debian repository. Now you can update your system without re downloading your ISO !! For now if you are running prefinal you can do the following.

Code:

rm /etc/apt/sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the following into that file

Code:

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/apt sensi main

Save that file and continue with the following steps.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install bitcoin cgminer diablominer guiminer hashkill phoenix poclbm

Did the above today -- took about 30 minutes to download, unpack and install it all. However, when I booted the updated, upgraded 0.2-final it got all the way to the final desktop and seemed to be running (I inserted another USB flash drive and the filemanager popped up) but my keyboard and mouse weren't seen. :-/

EnzoMatrix

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How hard would it be to setup linuxcoin to act as a internet gateway? I am wanting to install LinuxCoin on a older laptop that will simply be there to act as a internet connection and a PXE server for my actual mining rigs that way it can isolate the mining rigs from the outside world and I wont need a drive / cdrom / thumb drive for the mining rigs.

--Enzo

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Thanks for the info.

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Quote from: mikeo on July 29, 2011, 01:04:16 PM

Are you running Linuxcoin wirelessly? I'm looking for a robust wireless adapter, USB or PCI, that has built-in driver support in the Linuxcoin kernal. I'm a linux noob and want to avoid "driver hell". ;-)

I've looked at the "linux wireless adapters list" but give me your suggestions, please.

Every card i have has worked instantly with linux coin with no driver problems. I have used both the Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 usb card and a pcie-x1 asus PCE-N13 card with no problems. Instantly recognized both respectively as Ralink 802.11 n WLAN and Ralink corp. RT2860. I think your safe with any wifi card, that's been my experience. Well implemented with every platform I have tried so far.

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Are you running Linuxcoin wirelessly? I'm looking for a robust wireless adapter, USB or PCI, that has built-in driver support in the Linuxcoin kernal. I'm a linux noob and want to avoid "driver hell". ;-)

I've looked at the "linux wireless adapters list" but give me your suggestions, please.

drgr33n

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Sorry to bump my thread but thought this was worth bumping !! Cheesy

LinuxCoin now has it's own debian repository. Now you can update your system without re downloading your ISO !! For now if you are running prefinal you can do the following.

Code:

rm /etc/apt/sources.list
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the following into that file

Code:

deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb-src http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid  main non-free contrib
deb http://www.linuxcoin.co.uk/apt sensi main

Save that file and continue with the following steps.

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install bitcoin cgminer diablominer guiminer hashkill phoenix poclbm

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Quote from: Bruce Wagner on July 29, 2011, 07:15:11 AM

Could someone please contact me via email or skype or phone about LinuxCoin?

Sure Bruce sent you a PM. If you could send me your skype details I'll give you a call.

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Could someone please contact me via email or skype or phone about LinuxCoin?

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