Hello drgr33n,
This is really great stuff. I installed it and got it running right away... I was generating bitcoins in about half an hour. It was really easy.
I'm seeing a strange problem though: it seems like writes to my filesystem (on the USB stick) don't get committed. For instance, I created script files to start off miner processes. The files seem to have been written OK, but when I reboot the files are gone.
I tried running sync before rebooting but that didn't help.
My dongle doesn't have any kind of write-protect switch and writes just fine if I plug it into my windows box.
I'm not that much of a unix person... I'm probably doing something wrong being the nub I am. If you have any ideas it might help.
Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 73. (Read 285117 times)
May 14, 2011, 03:38:37 PM
May 14, 2011, 12:27:31 PM
I would love one. I figured holding on to 10-year old hardware would eventually pay off, and I'm almost there!
May 14, 2011, 12:22:31 PM
Sorry if I missed something obvious, but does this require a 64-bit CPU? The USB booter is telling me the kernel needs x86-64, while I have an i686 (P4 Northwood).
Yes sorry its 64bit only. I didn't think anyone would be running old machines like that anymore
I could add a 32bit kernel if people required this ? May 14, 2011, 10:48:57 AM
Sorry if I missed something obvious, but does this require a 64-bit CPU? The USB booter is telling me the kernel needs x86-64, while I have an i686 (P4 Northwood).
May 14, 2011, 05:28:42 AM
Stick with me guys I am working alone and have other commitments etc Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL 
Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL Please continue doing such a nice work, thanks for your effort (some btc on the way).
Thanks bud !! The next version is coming along nicely
Very low ram usage and lots of features plus I'm now working on the mining GUI. Pls don´t skip AMDOverdrivectl, very important tool. ;-)
Already included
When will can we expect new version?
Any date to mention?
Any date to mention?
Not timescale ATM. The core is in place just some loose ends to tie up nut dude a mans gota get laid sometimes hehehe
Linux noob here.
How do i run the miners?
How do i run the miners?
There#s plenty of posts explaining things here. I would suggest you choose a miner from /opt/miners and have a look at there thread here.
Is there any way to get DHCP enabled in the current USB version of linuxcoin? I'm completely new to linux and I have no idea what i'm doing here or how to get this working.
I'll put a little how to in a mo
May 14, 2011, 01:57:43 AM
Is there any way to get DHCP enabled in the current USB version of linuxcoin? I'm completely new to linux and I have no idea what i'm doing here or how to get this working.
May 14, 2011, 12:31:31 AM
Linux noob here.
How do i run the miners?
How do i run the miners?
May 14, 2011, 12:06:48 AM
When will can we expect new version?
Any date to mention?
Any date to mention?
May 13, 2011, 11:09:25 PM
Stick with me guys I am working alone and have other commitments etc Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL
Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL Please continue doing such a nice work, thanks for your effort (some btc on the way).
Thanks bud !! The next version is coming along nicely
Very low ram usage and lots of features plus I'm now working on the mining GUI. Pls don´t skip AMDOverdrivectl, very important tool. ;-)
May 13, 2011, 11:07:14 PM
Stick with me guys I am working alone and have other commitments etc Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL
Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL Please continue doing such a nice work, thanks for your effort (some btc on the way).
Thanks bud !! The next version is coming along nicely
Very low ram usage and lots of features plus I'm now working on the mining GUI. May 12, 2011, 08:34:41 PM
Stick with me guys I am working alone and have other commitments etc Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL
Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL Please continue doing such a nice work, thanks for your effort (some btc on the way).
May 12, 2011, 08:31:31 PM
if i were british, i'd set up the keyboard that way too... and everybody doesn't use DHCP - it's better to have to look at your own network settings.
as for SDK 2.4 vs. 2.1 - 2.4 is becoming required: for the 6xxx AMDs, and for compatibility with OpenCL.so.1. the latest (and potentially greatest) miner (Hashkill) doesn't even support 2.1 at all - and on my 5xxx's it's faster. software moves on, y'know.
there's a link to configuring screen resolution.
all in all, for a beta-ish release, i find it *quite* good.
as for SDK 2.4 vs. 2.1 - 2.4 is becoming required: for the 6xxx AMDs, and for compatibility with OpenCL.so.1. the latest (and potentially greatest) miner (Hashkill) doesn't even support 2.1 at all - and on my 5xxx's it's faster. software moves on, y'know.
there's a link to configuring screen resolution.
all in all, for a beta-ish release, i find it *quite* good.
If you were in the US, you wouldn't set it up like that. So what is your point? Alienate a large part of your potential market for giggles? Meh.
2.1, 2.4... whichever there. The dominate version right now is 2.1, so supporting the "nonstandard" version seems kind of silly as well.
Software does move on, but if you want wide acceptance, doing things that alienate the majority of your target audience is not the way to achieve that.
As far as DHCP goes, no, not everyone uses it. But your chain of logic is exceptionally faulty. If you don't use it, then DHCP will do nothing for you and you'll still have to set up your IP config manually. If you do use it, you won't have to configure it. Whereas if you have it turned off, you have to configure it regardless. It makes absolutely no sense to have DHCP disabled by default.
There is nothing compelling in this to get me to use it. Maybe I'm atypical, maybe not. It's just my opinion on the subject, and with the drawbacks I noted, setting it up for my rigs actually takes longer than a quick Ubuntu install from scratch.
well don't use it then
I might be wrong but I think dhclient is installed ? if not DHCP can be installed via apt-get and will remain if you are using persistence. Well I'm not in the US I live in the UK and again there is a package manager just for things like this.
For a few MH's I think I'll stick with 2.4 for compatibility. The facts are that 2.4 supports every GPGPU on the market and 2.1 doesn't. I think v2.4 would appeal more to the average miner because it works if you have a 5830 or a 6990 simple as. But people are welcome to install version 2.1 if they so please its only a five min job.
I've setup a wiki, forum etc for linuxcoin and 0.1a was really to test the water. The next version has all the problems you so kindly pointed out fixed and also included is a nice GUI for people to click and mine on the desktop plus lots of other appealing extras to keep even the most picky person happy
Stick with me guys I am working alone and have other commitments etc
Plus I'm trying to mine enough coins to pay for the URL 
May 12, 2011, 08:16:38 PM
if i were british, i'd set up the keyboard that way too... and everybody doesn't use DHCP - it's better to have to look at your own network settings.
as for SDK 2.4 vs. 2.1 - 2.4 is becoming required: for the 6xxx AMDs, and for compatibility with OpenCL.so.1. the latest (and potentially greatest) miner (Hashkill) doesn't even support 2.1 at all - and on my 5xxx's it's faster. software moves on, y'know.
there's a link to configuring screen resolution.
all in all, for a beta-ish release, i find it *quite* good.
as for SDK 2.4 vs. 2.1 - 2.4 is becoming required: for the 6xxx AMDs, and for compatibility with OpenCL.so.1. the latest (and potentially greatest) miner (Hashkill) doesn't even support 2.1 at all - and on my 5xxx's it's faster. software moves on, y'know.
there's a link to configuring screen resolution.
all in all, for a beta-ish release, i find it *quite* good.
If you were in the US, you wouldn't set it up like that. So what is your point? Alienate a large part of your potential market for giggles? Meh.
2.1, 2.4... whichever there. The dominate version right now is 2.1, so supporting the "nonstandard" version seems kind of silly as well.
Software does move on, but if you want wide acceptance, doing things that alienate the majority of your target audience is not the way to achieve that.
As far as DHCP goes, no, not everyone uses it. But your chain of logic is exceptionally faulty. If you don't use it, then DHCP will do nothing for you and you'll still have to set up your IP config manually. If you do use it, you won't have to configure it. Whereas if you have it turned off, you have to configure it regardless. It makes absolutely no sense to have DHCP disabled by default.
There is nothing compelling in this to get me to use it. Maybe I'm atypical, maybe not. It's just my opinion on the subject, and with the drawbacks I noted, setting it up for my rigs actually takes longer than a quick Ubuntu install from scratch.
May 11, 2011, 04:52:52 PM
I really like this and got the interface working on my new mining rig, however as a total linux noob I have no idea how to run the miners on linux. I've been able to get poclbm guiminer to work on my windows machine but I'm wondering if there is a linux version of guiminer (or something like it) out there for this? I'd love to run my rig sans windows but I'm hopelessly non-technical. 
May 11, 2011, 10:40:14 AM
If I wanted to use this with slushes pool how would I do that?
May 10, 2011, 01:33:38 PM
Thanks guys, persistance is working ok now.
May 10, 2011, 01:13:24 AM
I just checked persistence and it works fine ? Are you formatting your USB drives using the instructions in the link and using the -L casper-rw flag ? Easiest way to do this (if your using windows and dont have linux installed) is to burn linuxcoin to a disk. split your USB drive into two partitions. make sure the primary partition is larger than the size of the ISO. Install linuxcoin to the first partition and boot into linuxcoin.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
Code:
dmesg | grep sd
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
Code:
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sd*2
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
Many thanks for the tips, now persistance is working fine on 2nd. partition.
What I couldn´t find is how to link linuxcoin init script with the persistent partition.
I mean, how do I change the rc.local script and make it persistent.
May 09, 2011, 11:52:00 PM
I just checked persistence and it works fine ? Are you formatting your USB drives using the instructions in the link and using the -L casper-rw flag ? Easiest way to do this (if your using windows and dont have linux installed) is to burn linuxcoin to a disk. split your USB drive into two partitions. make sure the primary partition is larger than the size of the ISO. Install linuxcoin to the first partition and boot into linuxcoin.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
Code:
dmesg | grep sd
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
Code:
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sd*2
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
actually, there's something worth trying here...
the latest version of Unetbootin has a little bit of new functionality. if you burn the USB version of LinuxCoin using it, you have a checkbox option which reads: "Space used to preserve files across reboots (Ubuntu only)" followed by a size box that lets you set the MB of space you want to set aside on your USB drive for file storage.
i don't use Ubuntu - i use the Mint re-spin of Debian testing - but it works ok on that. it'll probably work on any Debian derivative (like Ubuntu).
i dunno about an actual swap drive - haven't tried that yet...
May 09, 2011, 09:34:53 PM
I just checked persistence and it works fine ? Are you formatting your USB drives using the instructions in the link and using the -L casper-rw flag ? Easiest way to do this (if your using windows and dont have linux installed) is to burn linuxcoin to a disk. split your USB drive into two partitions. make sure the primary partition is larger than the size of the ISO. Install linuxcoin to the first partition and boot into linuxcoin.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
Next load up a shell in linux coin and determine what linuxcoin has listed your flash drive as.
Code:
dmesg | grep sd
NOTE: If you only have one hdd installed this will normally be /dev/sdb
Now lets create some swap space. Type this into xterm..
Code:
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sd*2
* = device number
Reboot and your changes will save from now on.
May 09, 2011, 06:17:40 PM
Great work !
But cannot make persistance.
Any tips ?
But cannot make persistance.
Any tips ?
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