Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 58. (Read 285117 times)

or ubuntu screencast

i had somebody wanting to help me..he even teached me to install tiemviewer ROFLMAO

but on his TV everything was black 4x5870 maybe because of graphics drivers?

i am donating my second mined btc to the person helping me out ..should come in about 2hrs after start! really i want to fire 17000mhash here within the next hrs maximum...after this is solved i ghost it..and just change all to static ip and i am ready to go!  i am nearly there!

or could somebody even post me an finished iso?? and tell me the proggie which i MUST use to write it on usb ! that would be worth a 5BTC bounty for me ! really!

Hey guys! i am bothering u allw ay too often :


but i really have the feeling i am nesar lol


i have a problem @ numer 11 !


i have used the command mkfs.ext4 /dev/sddb2 -L live-rw

but it say always no such file or direcoty..device dont exist make sure u sepcified it correczly

i did all the steps one by one a few times beginning with using diskpart

everything worked fine (I used fat32)..but then

can it have to do with fat32??  how can i change it to linux partition??
thank u very much ! i really want to start mining ..and secure the network !

This are some great news Cant wait to try the final version. Good luck

Had the date time problem too, luckly for me I had a linux expert/friend to help me on site.

But the pemissions problem I solved it with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

That should get you mining right now.

sorry but i dont really have any idea what any of that means... im coming from a mac background a week of mining with windows and i dont want that anymore so trying linuxcoin out

does this have anything to do with the install on the USB memory stick?

also what is the root password on this install?  i tried to save a file to a partition on the drive but it would not let me because i did not have access.

the password for SSH in the first post here didnt work

also how do change the date and time?

Had that same problem, seems to be a file permission problem. I fixed CHMODing the whole miners directory and all its contents.
That's not the right thing to do, but will get your miners running.

can anyone help me with this?


Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 484, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/opt/miners/poclbm/BitcoinMiner.py", line 272, in miningThread
    self.loadKernel()
  File "/opt/miners/poclbm/BitcoinMiner.py", line 373, in loadKernel
    binaryW = open(cacheName, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'a1e83b97617e24d438cfc4107fb4f147.elf'


i am using a USB stick, this is the first time i have tried linux and cant figure out how to get the miners started, everythin gelse seems to be working great, it has to be the fastest and easiest install of an OS ever, i just cat get the miners running

is there a GUI to get miners started for linux?  seems insane i have to type in all my account, server, flags, etc.. for each miner every time i want to get this started.  what takes me 10 min of typing in archaic strings of text takes me 1 second in windows  to start up an app.

(i do not want to run windows anymore so i am trying to learn this stuff)

thanks

I've been playing around with this for a few days and it's been great - able to overclock both my GPUs on my 5970, increase fan speeds, and easily run the miner.

However, I've been encountering one problem - I've been unable to run my computer for longer than a day. It seems every 7 hours or so the GPU locks up and the computer becomes unresponsive. I'm going to try underclocking by 100MHz and see if it gives me the same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Sorry guys I'm really bogged down with work and compiling the final version of linuxcoin. I will start answering questions once the final version is released. The final version is coming along nicely and will have some great features like a pxe server so you can boot several machines from one USB stick + much more. I'll try and keep everyone posted as I go along.

Its going to be a small wait for the final version as I'm trying to make this as distro like as possible and much more user friendly. I'm looking for people to help out for a cut of the donations. If you have some spare time and would like to make linuxcoin awesome please PM me. Any help is greatly appreciated !!

PS: Thanks guys for all the donations !! 

Does it really work in this order?  I would expect the active flag to get cleared when the partition is deleted.

I wrote up some notes on this too, including tips for automatic mining startup, but I used a linux box (booted from the CD) for the partitioning step.  It is a real time saver, since you can do it and the ext4 creation at the same time.

So windows disk manager in windows 7 doesn't seem to allow you to partition your USB drive with just 1GB.  It's all or nothing...

Anyway, I put together some instructions to do it using diskpart and this website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415

1)  Seach for diskpart (using windows 7 search command). Start it.

2)  You should see this:

DISKPART>

3)  We want to find the usb drive.  type:

"list disk"

It will be fairly obvious which one is the usb (several thousand MB)

4)  Next we need to select one of those disk.  For my computer I wanted disk 1 and typed:

"select disk=1"

5)  Once we have the disk selected we need to look at the partitions. type:

"list partition"

6)  We need to delete all these.  First we must select the partition by typing:

"select partition=n"  (n is whatever partition you want to screw with)

Then we need to make this partition active by typing"

"active"

Once it is active we may delete it by typing:

"delete partition"

A faster way to do all of this is to just clean the entire disk/usb when it is selected.  This can be done by typing:

"clean"

7) Creating a partition is pretty trivial.  Just type:

"create partition primary size=n" (n being the size we desire in MB, I chose 1024 for 1 GB)

check the partitions again by typing:

"list partition"

And it should be there.

I believe you also need to format the USB drive.  I'm not really sure what is best.  I just used FAT32 because it was the default.

After this you can just continue with the instructions in post 217 (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=be391a7809c32f5b3f87a193acc32e10&topic=7374.msg136868#msg136868)

Anyway, that's it.  This took me an hour to figure out, hope it was helpful.  If you have any extra bit cents to throw my way I would appreciate it:
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Awesome. I was able to get this up and running in 10(ish)minutes. I will donate as soon as I actually have a few BTC in my wallet 

i'd like some help tuning the cards and such, but that's another post.

Here's my humble recommendations for LinuxCoin:

1. It'd be cool to have a 'List Devices' option on the Start_Miner menu
2. Maybe make the miners easily available to run from the command line w/o the menu program and w/o root

Other than that, way awesome. Thanks for this!

. . .shelbydz

If Ghost treats a USB stick as a generic block device, it should work.  It deals with real hard drives in this way, so I think it would be likely, but I haven't tried it with USB flash drives.

Never used Clonezilla, so I have no idea.

thats clear ! thx


u thin clonezilla is viable?? 

does it work with nortin ghost?? i have both of them but want to make 100% sure one of them works

I think you would need something like Ghost.  Remember that you need to clone the entire block device.

thank u very much! and if i di it via windows?? how to do it there..probably it will be faster then !

Sure.  Just plug the working stick in, note which drive it is, then plug the other in, check which drive it is.  Unmount them both.

If the good drive is /dev/sdb and the new drive is /dev/sdc, use this:


It'll take a while, probably much longer than just doing the setup.

thank u very much ! I really had a problem with this ! now just the following question..

if i read out the usb stick afterwards as iso can i then write new usb sticks with the same settings??

because i need to do that on 10 usb sticks..but its really a hassle going through all these steps 10times

also which program best to read the iso?? poweriso??