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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: CrownCloud on June 13, 2013, 03:13:18 PM



Title: [img released] Ready2Go - Convert your Raspbian install to use as a mining host!
Post by: CrownCloud on June 13, 2013, 03:13:18 PM
Ready2Go
Ready2Go is a Raspbian (Debian) based distro wrapper for the RasberryPi

Warning, this is work in progress, it works but updates may mess-up your device, so visit this thread before updating to check the changelog.

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Main idea behind Ready2Go is basically get 1 rock solid base img file out (soon) and then provide tools to keep updating with a simple command rather than downloading a new build every x days, this helps save time (in a few ways) and keeps you updated with the latest cgminer (and BFGMiner) later on.

Base OS needed : Raspbian

Current Feature list
  • Auto(Updater) - So you won't need to mess around compiling the latest cgminer by hand ;)
  • CGminer support (latest from Git)
Planned feature list
[ ] Graphs -- Todo
[ ] WebUI - Display status of each device plugged in --Todo


Devices supported
  • avalon
  • BFL SC
  • BitForce
  • Icarus/Lancelot
  • Modminer
  • Ztex
How do I use this ?
Download and burn img

'Select free download / free on the left hand side to download for free'
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http://hitfile.net/upQq/2013-06-14-Ready2Go.rar.html

basic commands,
cgminer - launches CGminer
update - updates cgminer
status / stats - displays system stats

or

You'll need Raspbian installed firstly (latest preferred) and then execute the following statements one by one,

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wget https://raw.github.com/arjitc/Ready2Go/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Please report any errors or any things you'd like to see here,
https://github.com/arjitc/Ready2Go

Few things to note,
1. I don't have a RPi for myself so I had to use a RPi emulator to test this from http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
2. Please consider donating, I can do a whole lot more if I have a RPi to test this on, probably package it as an Ready2Go distro (load and mine) rather than executing the commands to make it Ready2Go.

Donate Addy :
1EgBYhWqgMhdFM9n6mhVtjMXFqg6DdSBDe


Title: Re: Ready2Go - Convert your existing/new Rasbian install to use as a mining host!
Post by: CrownCloud on June 13, 2013, 03:13:45 PM
Reserved for updates.


Title: Re: Ready2Go - Convert your existing/new Raspbian install to use as a mining host!
Post by: dlasher on June 14, 2013, 05:23:51 PM
nifty -- tested against both emulated and real raspbian/pi setups.. worked well. I like the idea of where you're heading. Would be great to throw in bfgminer 'secret sauce' as well, since some people prefer it.

btw, I was able to compile cgminer successfully with "dh-autoreconf" -- what function does it serve? (Just asking because it takes an additional 10M of disk space)



Title: Re: Ready2Go - Convert your existing/new Raspbian install to use as a mining host!
Post by: CrownCloud on June 14, 2013, 07:47:52 PM
nifty -- tested against both emulated and real raspbian/pi setups.. worked well. I like the idea of where you're heading. Would be great to throw in bfgminer 'secret sauce' as well, since some people prefer it.

btw, I was able to compile cgminer successfully with "dh-autoreconf" -- what function does it serve? (Just asking because it takes an additional 10M of disk space)



Hey,
Thanks for testing it out :) Glad to know the current github build worked :) BFGminer will be added in soon, hopefully once I can get my hands on a real RPi :P

The only reason I added dh-autoreconf was because I get the cgminer files from git (so it's the latest) and when installing it, you need to pass on a autogen.sh --flags (where flags are the devices you want it to support) and found that without autoreconf it wont install (maybe because I'm using a old build of Raspbian :/

Main idea behind Ready2Go is basically get 1 rock solid base img file out (soon) and then provide tools to keep updating with a simple command rather than downloading a new build every x days, this helps save time (in a few ways) and keeps you updated with the latest cgminer (and BFGMiner) later on.


Title: Re: [img released] Ready2Go - Convert your Raspbian install to use as a mining host!
Post by: CrownCloud on June 16, 2013, 10:05:04 AM
Base img file added, a few patches to make SSH etc work will be released soon.