I don't have ".../AppData/bitmonero" folder, what should I do? In what place blockchain.bin should be placed?
Also, with "show_hr" command I got "Mining is not started". I'm starting by bat-file from "getting started".
Okay,
First off you have to create that folder in $AppData$\Roaming\bitmonero then you can put your downloaded blockchain in there.
To mine you have to type start_mining [number of threads] in the simplewallet.exe windows not in the bitmoneod.exe
e.g start_mining 4
Then you can use show_hr in bitmonerod.exe
If it says daemon busy when you try and start mining it is because the blockchain is still syncing.
Thank you.
Why is this written on
http://monero.cc/getting-started/#installing-monero:
"./bitmonerod --start-mining MRO_address --mining-threads number_of_threads
This line above is the only one you have to know for mining. Be it on your computer on another computer. You don’t even need your wallet open to mine".
This is daemon, not wallet.
That is a linux command.
Yes you don't need to use simple wallet to start mining but its the easiest and if your just mining on your personal computer there is no need to use that command with the adress just
start_mining
is all you need.
It comes in useful when you have more than one system mining but you want it to all go to the same address.
the equivalent windows command is something like
start_mining
in the bitmonerod.exe window.
I understand now, thanks.
Don't you know why I can't sync it with downloaded blockchain.bin? I get this error:
2014-May-14 14:45:11.430632 Initializing core...
2014-May-14 14:45:11.430632 Loading blockchain...
2014-May-14 14:45:11.446232 ERROR C:\temp\bytecoin\git\bitmonero-master-32bit\sr
c\common/boost_serialization_helper.h:82 Exception at [unserialize_obj_from_file
], what=invalid signature
2014-May-14 14:45:11.461832
Can't load blockchain storage from file, generating
genesis block.2014-May-14 14:45:12.631834 Blockchain initialized. last block: 0, d679.h5.m45.s
12 time ago, current difficulty: 1
