Print Page - [TUTORIAL] Pool mining YACoin with cpuminer on Ubuntu 12.10 EC2 AWS

Requirements: AWS Account, AWS Key Pair, Linux terminal or Putty on Windows. Pool account Eg. http://yac.dontmine.me

Step 1: link (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#startWizards=true) Select the instance Ubuntu Ubuntu Server 12.10 (recommended) or Ubuntu Server 12.10 for Cluster Instances (Limit of 2 by default) 64-Bit of course. Click continue.

Step 2: Click edit details, change type to c1.xlarge (cc2.8xlarge for clusters), save details, Launch.

Step 3: link (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#s=Instances) After a few minutes your new instance should be done creating and be started automatically. To connect right click the instance, click connect. You should get a code that looks something like this

Code:

ssh -i /home/rawr/Desktop/keycode.pem ubuntu@ec1-23-45-678-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com

replace keycode.pem with your .pem Key Pair file then paste the code into the linux terminal. (Putty how-to guide (http://ijustutter.com/how-to-access-aws-ec2-via-ssh-with-key-pair-using-putty))

Step 4: When the server is done starting up, paste the following code into the Ubuntu shell:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake git libcurl4-openssl-dev make && git clone https://github.com/ali1234/cpuminer.git &&
cd ./cpuminer/ && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install &&
./minerd -o http://yac.dontmine.me:8080 -u username.1 -p x -a scrypt-jane

replace username.1 with your username and x with your password. The following will install the newest version of cpuminer, it's dependents and start the mining on all your CPU threads. To limit the threads place -t n after the port. n=numebr of cpu cores used for mining.

Step 5. You should now me mining YaCoin! When your done mining remember to stop or terminate the instance. link (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#s=Instances) You get charged for each partial/full hour!

Pricing for instances: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

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