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Title: SLAX cryptominer 0.1 (x64)
Post by: fran2k on December 29, 2013, 08:36:07 AM
I just saw this (http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/1twpxj/slax_cryptominer_01/) on Reddit. Great because I was looking some Linux x64 dedicated mining distro. :D The only option available was the BAMT 0.5 x64, which is quite old.

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hi, i just modified slax linux distro specifically for gpu and cpu mining, i prefer slax because you can run it without any storage device (harddisk or flashdisk) since it can copy itself entirely to run from PC memory, which is cool !

slax-miner-x64-0.1 download-x64 127MB (https://mega.co.nz/#!gop3FYib!N2Hak0WTijbHVSupwaVpinYffsIQYZrthpJakvIycNA)

features :

    only need minimal 512 MB flash disk
    you can run with unpluged flash disk since slax can copy itself to run from computer RAM
    built-in cgminer-3.7.2 with for openCL scrypt and sha256 mining
    built-in jhProtoMiner from yvg1900 all 64-bit variations for cpu mining
    minimal installation only x.org and blackbox desktop, mostly you will need to operate it via SSH anyway

how to install :

    extract the content of .7z file to your formatted flash disk with FAT32 partition
    run [FLASHDISK]\slax\boot\bootinst.bat
    boot from it
    run "aticonfig --lsa" to list your detected gpu
    run "aticonfig --adapter=all --initial" to configure to your gpu setup
    reboot

how to run :

    miner software located at /opt/cgminer and /opt/ptsminer
    you can run example script just by running "start-cgminer" or "start-ptsminer"
    to connect from remote, use ssh client such as putty, login with root, password toor



Title: Re: SLAX cryptominer 0.1 (x64)
Post by: jamesc760 on December 29, 2013, 12:52:13 PM
thank you! i will try this out next week and will report!


Title: Re: SLAX cryptominer 0.1 (x64)
Post by: yvg1900 on December 31, 2013, 11:11:42 PM
Hi all,

If someone is in contact with devs of this distro, I encourage you to point them that new version is available, and they shall take care of huge pages config to achieve better perf.

yvg1900


Title: Re: SLAX cryptominer 0.1 (x64)
Post by: fran2k on January 07, 2014, 12:26:30 PM
Hi all,

If someone is in contact with devs of this distro, I encourage you to point them that new version is available, and they shall take care of huge pages config to achieve better perf.

yvg1900

Here is the official thread. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=389667.0)