Anyone think it would be easier to start mining on a clean install of ubuntu? Started with that but couldn't figure out how to compile anything or run anything or whatever you do in linux.
Gonna have to start scrounging the internet for someone who doesn't skip a step....cause I feel like every guide I have looked at is either missing something or I am just a completely inadequate to be trying to mine on linux lol.
You'll spend over an hour compiling things, and that's if your machine is fast and you know what you're doing (or you follow tutorials), and there's no guarantee it'll work with the drivers you compile. I've done it 4 times, and never liked the results.
BAMT is the quickest solution, works out of the box. If you follow what I suggest and ignore the BAMT forum instructions, you will be mining in 2 minutes. Basically:
* Burn BAMT onto a USB stick
* Boot it up
* Do nothing but wait
Within about a minute, your machine should start mining by itself with absolutely no other changes. This shows BAMT works with your cards. If it doesn't work, then it's not compatible with your setup. Try another version of BAMT (1.1, 1.2, 1.3). One should work. If it doesn't work by doing this, something is wrong, either a strange hardware compatibility issue or something. BAMT works 99.7% of the time on all hardware.
Pro tip, if this machine is just mining, disable everything in BIOS the machine won't use. Kill SATA, Serial Ports, etc. You need USB and LAN obviously.
Once you know it does work, the only thing that's left is to put your pool information in, customize GPU settings, etc.
cgminer.conf holds those. There's more customization which can be done, but this is just to get you up and running.
It's also not a guarantee, but typically you'll see 5-20kh faster results per card with linux-based setups because there's no-to-lower overhead on the graphics side. Windows setups have easier undervolting.
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