Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 47. (Read 285117 times)

What is the problem? you make 2 partitions, one fat32 and put the linuxcoin image on it with unetbootin. The second, leave as free space. boot in default mode, follow the "old" guide..

if you have /dev/sda1 as the linuxcoin partition:

fdisk /dev/sda
n
p
2
enter
enter
w

shutdown, restart choosing persistent mode

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 -L live-rw
enter
enter

sudo df

you should see:
/dev/sda1 ... /live/image
/dev/sda2 ... /live/cow

now shutdown, plug the usb stick into your pc and edit /live/image/syslinux.cfg and put the last 2 lines under persistent where the last 2 lines for default were. now it will be persistent mode by default

almost forgot, anyone here implement anything like:

1. publishing the temps and mhash/s etc to a website for remote summary?
2. a script that will kill the miner(s) if the temps get too high?

I'm using these scripts, everything seems to be working great.

2x 5830 @ 900/300
using phoenix, k phatk PLATFORM=0 DEVICE=1 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=12
getting 272-273 Mhash/s on each card

top card is 71C, bottom is 65C

this is a temp setup though and will have my boards for 4 cards soon and moving to a better cooling platform

EDIT: Even easier way to use persistence on the way !! Literally just drop a file onto your flash media and your golden

Files are being uploaded now I'll link em when they are complete. Might take a while though because they total 3.5GB and I'm on a 3G connection.

I've tested and they work great !!


Thats due to pyopencl being updated to the latest version. It's nothing to worry about and really should be taken up with the author of phoenix
 

Getting a bunch of "deprecation warning" messages using phoenix, linuxcoin 0.2b ?

Seems to be just when I start it up?

'enqueue_read_buffer' has been deprecated in version 2011.1. Please use enqueue_copy() instead.

I've just tested and persistence works fine ?



/dev/sr0 is my CD rom and /dev/sda1 is a quick harddisk I created in vmware and formatted to ext4 labeling live-rw

Follow the guide until you get to boot from linuxcoin. Next open up a root terminal and type


* = your HDD number. If you don't know what it is then type


And look for what drive is mounted as /live/image. That's the one you want.

next type

and wait for it to complete.

Then reboot and select LinuxCoin persistent and your golden

If you can create a bit for bit image file of an 8gb partitioned persistent stick running .2b, that would make a lot of people's lives a lot easier. The persistence doesn't work, even after modifying syslinux.cfg in the windows readable portion of the stick. In .2b there's no /media/x09sd9fj to unmount.

Is it possible to instead create a bin or img file that can be written bit for bit to an equally partitioned usb stick? There are sure to be a few windows based programs that allow for bit level cloning ala ghost.

I'll pay you or anyone else $50 for this tutorial/image file via paypal. I want to see LinuxCoin own.

Yep did everything like I did in the last version.. even did it 2 times to make sure I was doing it right.  Not sure what the problem is.

Aside from that, I love the changes you've made.

Are you guys booting with the persistence option ?

Thanks for all the email and host links guys !! I'll reply to you all tomorrow as its very late now and I need to get some sleep

PS:

Check out this demo of linuxcoin acting a s a pxe server and distributing itself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVN4l3RomI

Yes I tried it again with the same result.  Something must be different on the new version or something?

I finally got some mining going in linuxcoin.  My problem stemmed from the syntax (or lack of) during one of the options.  

I type start_mining in a terminal (bottom left coin, click, accessories), enter option 1, and for the option 'Enter url and press enter' I use something like this 'poolminingwebsite.com -p 8334'.  I was trying something like poolminingwebsite.com:8334.

The name and password are pretty obvious and need to explanation.  For some reason, before all that, when I would type all this into the terminals options, the terminal that would open to display the mining information would open and close instantly.  It wasn't until I opened ati sdk license and amd overdrive did it actually not just close instantly.  I opened the ati sdk license thing assuming that that was the problem, tried to mine a few times with no success, then opened the amd overdrive ctrl program and then I made some progress.

I still haven't figured out the phoenix thing.  A few seemed to mention hashkill being really good as well, maybe I'll give that a shot.

Also, I am still trying to figure out the persistence thing, 'sudo df' did give me a list of stuff.  However, '/dev/sdb1 10520641051712 352 100% /live/image' is the only line that seems to relate to anything further.  I see nothing relating to 2 sets of 4 random numbers and letters.  Perhaps I'll reformat the flash drive just to be sure I followed all the steps correctly.


@no_alone Thanks for the response.  I was under the impression that phoenix might be capable of giving better mhash performance, which is why I am eager to compare.  I have tried both of those options for the kernel option but the mining terminal opens and closes instantly.  This doesn't happen when I choose option 1.

As I've noted previously, I am a complete linux newb.  I am pretty sure many obvious details are sneaking past me, I am sorry for asking to have it spoon fed to me : P.

Hm same here I am stuck at sudo df too. 

I just installed .02a with that little persistence tutorial and it worked fine.  I re did it once I saw a new version out.  Now with the new version I don't get the same thing when I type sudo df.  I don't believe I did anything different.

I'm stuck at sudo df....

here's the output. anyone have ideas? it looks like the referenced /media/ mentioned in the post doesn't exist on my output. i have a tmpfs mounted on /live/cow but.. well.. i'm stuck. help!

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
aufs                   1862288     12352   1849936   1% /
tmpfs                     5120         0      5120   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                   372460       572    371888   1% /run
tmpfs                     5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                   744916        44    744872   1% /tmp
udev                   1853764         0   1853764   0% /dev
tmpfs                   744916       144    744772   1% /run/shm
/dev/sdb1              2096288   2095764       524 100% /live/image
tmpfs                  1862288     12352   1849936   1% /live/cow
tmpfs                  1862288         0   1862288   0% /live

Thanks bud worked perfectly, I now know how to install things in linux.  Bad news is the PowerTune really had zero effect on my MHS

Yup I'd get the new version most things have been updated and a lot of bugs fixed. If you wanted to install it you could just save it to your usb drive and when you boot



Great info pigki I'm not a fan of using GUI's so wasn't sure how to do this

Guys I want to apologize for not including smartcoin I wasn't aware the author had released a beta release and haven't contacted him yet to ask if he minded if I added smartcoin to linuxcoin.

I've added a link to his post with the links etc to smartcoin. I suggest people use this instead of start_mining as it was just a quick and dirty bash script really to guide peops through starting the miners.

Hope everyone is enjoying Linuxcoin and its playing nice with you  Right I'm off for a nice cold beer and some cod !!

I will put a space between:
sudo su-
and:
df

I understand this could be confusing, thanks!

-edit-
made it into:
sudo df

Thanks Gr33n!

For anyone wanting to be able to open AMDOverdriveCtrl for multiple cards at once and quickly apply saved overclock + powertune settings, go to your root terminal and type the following:

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i

output should look like this:

INF: Nr. of Adapters: 9
INF: Adapter index: 0, active, ID:17880608, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 1, inact., ID:17880608, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 2, inact., ID:17880608, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 3, active, ID:20057984, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 4, inact., ID:20057984, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 5, inact., ID:20057984, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 6, active, ID:22180816, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 7, inact., ID:22180816, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
INF: Adapter index: 8, inact., ID:22180816, AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Option 'i' requires a value.

Make a note of your active adapter #'s. In this case there are three active adapters listed @ 0,3 and 5.

Next up, open accessories "leafpad" and type/paste the following (replacing your card #s and quantity)..

#!/bin/sh

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0 &
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 3 &
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 5 &

Save the file as "anyname" to the desktop, right click and select properties. click the checkbox to make the file executable under the permissions tab.

Double click, click execute and your consoles will all pop up. If you have 4 cards, it the shell script would look like this:

#!/bin/sh

AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 0 &
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 3 &
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 5 &
AMDOverdriveCtrl -i 7 &

or just

Right but I have to download the new version yes? Just makin sure peace

Only if you use phoenix miners you need to write what kernel to use...
anyway you can wite phatk to use phatk kernal and you can also write  poclbm to use poclbm kernal