Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 74. (Read 285117 times)

lol Yes I would wait because when I initially created the first release I had an idea in my head that every miner would be familiar with linux and wasn't really designing this for the average Joe. But as the feedback started to come in I've realized that this OS could be so much more. So "MK2" has been designed with the average user in mind. I'm looking to secure a little web space and setup a repo for this distro so I can keep it lightweight and people can install what they like when they need to.

Also I'm sort of happy that most ATI hardware is supported now and I wanted to get ATI out of the way before starting anything else because 99% of the mining population use ATI cards as they suit this type of math a lot better than Nvidia.

Nvidia cards will be supported in the near future but got to make some decisions on how this is all going to work and I'm working alone on this ATM so might be a little while before I make a start on that.

What you have to remember is that this is in a very early stage so it was never going to be 100% yet but you can see the potential of this OS and I think it could play a minor part in growing the bitcoin community, getting people on board and making it even easier and more secure to use bitcoin.


I'm still working on this issue. Sorry been trying to get a base together and settle on a Windows Environment for LinuxCoin. I promise this will work in the next version.


Yes this ISO can easily be added to a PXE server

Thanks for all the feedback people. Your all helping me make LinuxCoin uber

Seems Linuxcoin tested me instead of me testing Linuxcoin. Want to try new version soon.

It took me a lot of hell, to work with Linux. I am not blaming Linux or Linuxcoin, i am complete newbie to Linux.
Besides, i have only one monitor now & i connected 2 systems to it & my main system is mining which can't be stopped.
With 2nd computer & my bad, broken keyboard, 7, y , u & some other key won't work until pressed with an hammer.
Really funny today working with a broken keyboard & trying to set the keyboard to US, by connecting from linuxcoin pc to main pc instead of switch using 2 lan cards & bridging them.....................
tired.

Still, i am impressed with this linux, the above post abt tar is typed from that pc only, which made me tired by giving wrong password due to broken keyboard, which didn't allow me to login to forum to post until a long fight.

Is CUDA supported? I downloaded cuda for linux form Nvidia & it is a .run file, which i don't know how to run.

Why no shutdown & logout, logs out of one theme with "B" coin image to debian replacing start & again logout , login to debian only.
How to shutdown or login to "B" user or theme or whatever it is.

Yep tis was a typo lol Sorry I should really put that on the first post in this thread. But the new version is getting close already now so was just going to fix and upload.

I believe this is a typo and you should use "tar -xzvf icd-registration.tgz -C /"  or something like that.  The flags for unzipping the tgz are missing form the command.

cd /opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64  running in xterm changes to that folder.
But tar icd-registration.tgz -C /   gives error, saying   

tar: you may not specify more than one 'Acdtrux' or '--test-label' option
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

What do to?

It recognized my 2 6990 cards and all 4 GPUs.  I didn't have to change anything except for untaring the license file.  I'm still trying to get persistence to work, and then I would ditch all of my hard disks that I had been using.

I would love to see PXE support on this. I downloaded .1a and couldn't get it working (UNetBootin kept saying the kernel image was missing or corrupt) but I'll try .1b now. Hoping this ends up being great, seems to have so much potential.

Does this support multiple GPUs out of the box, or will I need to do some CLI config? I'm not ignorant when it comes to Linux in general but I am currently ignorant about mining with Linux, so patience is appreciated.

Thanks for your efforts!

Wow great stuff dude

Can it booted from PXE?
Because I think it would be great, so all we need is just setup one master server that holds entire worker nodes. It would be easier to scale up this cluster easily.

Just as for real case, someone made custom distro for Folding@home and have it booted with PXE --> http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/diskless.html

To change the keyboard to us type this into xterm


For copy ctrl+c and paste shift+insert

Next version has GUI's for all these settings

Impressive, very impressive. In the last 10 years of my computer experience, the very first Linux distro worked this much fast.
Damn small linux & linux mint was impressed me before. But Linuxcoin went a step further & everything is instant. may be due to portable.

But, i have a old 9400GT Nvidia & i tried in that machine.
A text window opened said, to install AMD APP, copy paste...
ctrl + c & ctrl + v , not working, so gone for edit copy, but no option to paste in terminal.
Then typed manually & used file manager to find the registration. file as mentioned in the text file.
tried tar icd-registration.....-C/ |
But how to use pipe symbol, i don't know.
Pressing the "|" in my keyboard types ~~~~~.
Also, since cant able to give ip address, cant able to connect to my Lan.

Lack of DHCP & keyboard lang selection, made me to shutdown.
You took out many things in system/control panel.
But for newbies like me, working in terminal is worst than working in dos.
Please add network configuration, keyboard, mouse, display in GUI.
I hope thats enough to boot & mine only.

Still really impressive Linux distro in the view of an avid windows user of 12 years.

Thanks Jamie lxde looks like a much better option even though its a little more bulky than icewm I think its much more user friendly and configurable.


It was working my end ? but i did configure this manually to test and then dropped in one of unetbootin's casper-rw's There's a link on the first post of this thread. You could try building your usb stick that way Plus you can increase the amount of persistent space.

I will take a look at this properly and make sure it works on the next release.

Yes I could do but this one is simple once loaded I plan to add a package directory to the USB version. Just drop any .deb's you want included on boot and they will be installed. Also synaptic package manager is now included so just load that up and type VNC, click and install.

I want to try and keep the extra stuff like VNC down to a minimum due to size restrictions.


Muchas gracias sinor !! Exactly what I need is for people to test on there hardware and give some feedback. I have a few 5XXX series radeon cards but really could do with peops testing on the newer hardware and give me some numbers. The pretty little extras are easy but I'm working blind on the hardware stuff ATM
 

USB MD5 matches  f6ce932c9724546b5d05881b301d329e

I try with my 6870 card & share if i found anything, which helps this project.

Yep, looks very cool indeed.

Does it have VNC support, and if not could you add it?

wow!

looks really amazing.

Everything taken on board and work on the next version is already in progress. AMD overdrivectl has now been installed. icewm has been dropped for lxde much more configurable and auto dhcp.

Language support will not be added but can be got after you have installed Linuxcoin.

As a few have pointed out I'm going to stick with SDK 2.4 and fglrx 11.3 to keep it up to date and for compatibility sake. You however are quite welcome to add 2.1 yourself. I'm going to take a bit of time on the next version as I don't want to rush things and get this right

Here are some screenshots of the new interface

you want to get AMDOverdriveCtrl.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/

i've got a (Sapphire) 5770 that does 173 Mhash/sec with Hashkill, 166 with DiabloMiner.  960GPU, 250Mem, 1.125 overvolt.  runs at 67-68C.

Thank you, I was just going to ask about those instructions.  Also the keyboard messed with me a little since I do not know how to change it, but with some hunting I found the right keys. 

I am getting 141Mhash on my 5770 using poclbm now was 66 as I had it set up so thanks.  Pretty awesome!

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.

Interesting project, but I found a few problems / irritants with it:

1. It's set for a UK keyboard (I think) and thus doesn't work with a US keyboard properly.
2. It's missing screen.  This is absolutely 100% essential for any mining box with multiple cores.
3. SDK 2.4 is about 15 Mh/s slower than 2.1 on a 5870 core at 900 MHz.  Should really replace 2.4 with 2.1.
4. Instructions on boot don't make any sense, specifically the line about "tar icd-registration.tgz -C /"  What are you trying to do here?  I assume you're trying to untar it to the root directory.  If that's the case, you forgot the essential command line parameters.  It should be "tar xvfz icd-registration.tgz -C /"
5. DHCP is not setup by default on the network connections.

Just my input!