Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 65. (Read 285117 times)

I am new to mining (I have 3 5850's delivering today!) and I am looking for a good linux distro to use for my miner.  I was thinking ubuntu....till I saw this

I was wondering if there was a how-to or a tutorial I could read to learn how to install this to a local hard drive and run it.

Using the bios editor you can raise your max clock values and voltage. You have to tinker a bit but I found I could squeeze an extra 40MHs out of my 5870 and around 20MHs from my 5830. Lowering the memory clocks don't help speed at all but does reduce power consumption & heat.

Just ran a test for last 24 hours or so: one of my 6990 cores at 900/900/1.05 and the other core at 900/1250/1.125. No significant difference between them but then again I'm only getting 345-350 Mh/s on each core.

Reducing mem clock speed might reduce power consumption (mine runs cooler) - have you tried slowly underclocking mem while overclocking gpu? The 5970 is dual core gpu too, and when I'm testing I keep one at standard clocks and volts (or what I know works), change the other, sit back and compare for a few hours.

lol incorrect !! But you can do that also lol

Correct, but you can from the command line:
Start -> Run -> diskpart

Once diskpart is up and running:
disk list (shows all of your disks)
select disk X (X=your USB thumb drive, make sure you select the right disk!!!)
clean (scrubs all partition off the currently selected disk)

You can then exit diskpart, run Windows Disk Manager and create as many partitions as you would like.

Just make sure it PROMPTS for the password, and doesn't save it. I know some people do that wrong, and it defeats the whole point of using encryption. While I assume that you would get it right, it never hurts to mention!

Yes it does use the snap in tool. If that fails check out Gparted for windows.

De4l you tried disabling overclocking via aticonfig ?

lmgtfy is really funny and all, but Windows Disk Manager does not allow you to partition USB drives.

lol I've never been a manual person  Thats what I meant. I thought the default settings was the thresholds where the card changes mode. As the load goes up the card switches to the next default profile ? I'll take a look at the man now.

You should read the RBE manual then. Yes one of the features is increasing the 'max threshold' but the majority of RBE is actually for adjusting the default frequency settings, default fan settings and default voltage settings. And as I mentioned, after modifying these in RBE, the card is inaccessible to AMDOverdriveCtrl and aticonfig for me, however I will have to try ATI-overclocking utility in the future,

Not necessarily :d using RBE you are changing the thresholds not your clocks. So if you increase the maximum clock speed and voltage not the actual clock speed. What you should be able to do is increase the max values. And when you boot back into linuxcoin you should be able to push your card to the values you set.

Although I haven't looked into this too much

yes the clocks /should/ stick no matter what OS you're in if they're edited in RBE. AMDOverdriveCtrl works great for me in linux, the issue is that it does not allow a high enough voltage setting. I tried getting ATI-overclocking utility to work in my ubuntu install but couldn't so I'll have to wait to see if you release it in the next LinuxCoin to see if it allows higher voltage adjustment than AMDOverdriveCtrl (which otherwise works perfect on my system).

The clocks won't stick when you reboot into another OS. To tell you the truth I find the app that was suggested here to be the most stable way to increase your voltage and manipulate your clocks. Try it and see how you get on.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/ATI-Overclocking-Utility-X64-48756.shtml

Either hash-rate will significantly decrease as the voltage is insufficient or the whole card will freeze. Example 1.05 volta 815mhz per core gives 360mh/s/core but 840mhz yields 200mh/s/core or a total freeze. Unfortunately if I increase the voltage in RBE the card is inaccessible by AMDOverdriveCtrl in linux and for some reason the RBE clocks don't stick only voltage.

What instability are you noticing?

Sorry didn't see you there brwyatt You read my mind lol. The next version of LinuxCoin is going to include an option to encrypt your home folder and have it auto mount on boot. Work is in progress

Hey guys,

Just a quick update. I'll be working on the wiki tonight. Now we have a working base for linuxcoin I'm comfortable that there will be no core changes for a while Just small bits and bobs.

I would encourage people to sign up and add content to help out the community More info on things later.



lol


1) Plug your dongle into your windows machine.
2) Load your favorite browser
3) Click here >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+disk+manager
4) Follow a guide on how to create 1 partition. You only need to create 1 partition in windows. Make it around 1G
5) Install linuxcoin via unetbootin or any other tool
6) Boot from your stick.
7) Load a root terminal
Find what LinuxCoin has listed your USB stick as. HINT you will only have 1 1G partition on this device. You can do this by using


and you should see something like


That tells me my stick has been listed as sdb

9) Now lets create some persistence space with fdisk. Here's the output of my shell and what I typed.


If you really can't be bothered to work out what went on just follow this to use the rest of your stick for persistence. Obviously changing sdb for your stick.


10) Give yourself a pat on the back, your a computer genius.
11) format the partition you just created with this command.


Yes I did type ext4 lol we are in 2011 You should see something like this ..


Reboot and load linuxcoin with persistence and your golden

Heh, drgr33n should only provide BitTorrent downloads.

You should be able to, but not with the simple format tool, that just formats partitions. Using gparted on linux is easier. Make a 700MB vfat/fat32 partition for LinuxCoin to be installed to, then format the rest as ext2/3/4 and name it "live-rw". You won't be able to format that with Windows anyway...

To partition in Windows you have to open up the hard disk manager and do it there. But you still won't be able to format as a Linux filesystem. And as greenlander said, you can just use a second drive as the persistent drive, just label it as "live-rw".

I had your exact same problem.  I eventually solved the problem by using a second Linux system that I happened to have.

One thing that may work is to install "persistent-less" LinuxCoin.  Then go into fdisk and re-partition the drive into two partitions, commit the partition table, and exit... then immediately unplug the drive.  This is risky because you're nuking the partition that the OS is using... but as soon as you commit the new partition table you don't need the OS any more.  Then you can plug the drive into  your win7 system and win7 will format only the first partition and leave the second partition alone.  Then once you get LinuxCoin up and running again you can set up the second live-rw partition to get persistence working.

This may or may not work, I don't know.  I can think of a couple of reasons why it wouldn't work.  You'll have to try it.

A second possibility may be to plug in two USB drives at the same time.  Use one to boot "persistentless" Linux.  Then, use that OS to partition the second drive that isn't being used by the OS.  This is safer than the method above and will almost certainly work, but requires two USB drives.