LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go.

[drgr33n]

Ok I've finished with those pesky bugs and am now testing linuxcoin My MH's you see in my sig is from linuxcoin 0.2b I'm going to leave it running while I pop out and see a man about a dog and if all is well I will be uploading this evening. If you are hosting linuxcoin please PM me and I'll arrange for you to get the ISO before anyone else

LinuxCoin 0.2b test

*removed*


And Loki 7281 running linuxcoin She's a beast Got hit with the ugly stick for sure but a survivor



Remember 0.2b is STILL testing lol I know I'm sorry but if you've kept up with my posts you would see I'm facing a mid life crisis atm and wanted to fix linuxcoin up before going incognito for a few weeks Hopefully I will still have a home. I've been selling everything on ebay hahaha

[Ronin]

I can't wait to download and test the new version of LinuxCoin. And man sorry to hear this stuff with your ex-girlfriend. Crazy world we live in.

[Folax]

Awaiting v0.2b eagerly.

Would be great if someone would write a little step-by-step on how to upgrade the catalyst drivers to 11.6 on v0.2a/b so under/overclocking outside the BIOS limits of the cards becomes possible.

Uninstalling and overwriting this driver resulted in one of my cards not being able to mine anymore (the miner wonders if BFI_int can run on the card...) so I clearly messed this up.

I would donate a coin for a complete working step-by-step.

[drgr33n]

Awaiting v0.2b eagerly.

Would be great if someone would write a little step-by-step on how to upgrade the catalyst drivers to 11.6 on v0.2a/b so under/overclocking outside the BIOS limits of the cards becomes possible.

Uninstalling and overwriting this driver resulted in one of my cards not being able to mine anymore (the miner wonders if BFI_int can run on the card...) so I clearly messed this up.

I would donate a coin for a complete working step-by-step.

Working on having this working as stock

[evlew]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

this guide is pretty useful for over/underclocking.

[drgr33n]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0

this guide is pretty useful for over/underclocking.

LinuxCoin will be able to overclock / underclock without a bios mod

[Folax]

Working on having this working as stock

!!!

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11746.0
this guide is pretty useful for over/underclocking.

Thanks, but that requires me to flash the BIOS using DOS or Windows with the risk of bricking my card.
With the Catalyst 11.6 driver AMD allows you to clock outside the BIOS limits directly without any flashing/overwriting of the BIOS, which is preferred by some.

[drgr33n]

We have catalyst 11.6 I decided to use it as I managed to stabilize it and I know you lot are winging fu&*ers !!

[Ronin]

So when roughly we will be able to download new 0.2b LinuxCoin?

[Wildvest]

Awaiting v0.2b eagerly.

Would be great if someone would write a little step-by-step on how to upgrade the catalyst drivers to 11.6 on v0.2a/b so under/overclocking outside the BIOS limits of the cards becomes possible.

Uninstalling and overwriting this driver resulted in one of my cards not being able to mine anymore (the miner wonders if BFI_int can run on the card...) so I clearly messed this up.

I would donate a coin for a complete working step-by-step.

+1 for the step-by-step upgrade for the drivers to 11.6

[drgr33n]

So when roughly we will be able to download new 0.2b LinuxCoin?

Um should be by tonight hopefully people that are hosting will get priority

[Folax]

+1 for the step-by-step upgrade for the drivers to 11.6

When it's incorporated into v0.2b that's even better! (For those using Linuxcoin that is.)

Needless to say first bitcoin mined with v0.2b goes to drgr33n.

[nzbtc]

If you would like another HTTP mirror, I have a server with a few hundred gigs of bandwidth spare

Just give us a link, and Ill set it up for you.

[drgr33n]

Thanks guys for offering all the bandwidth !! I will be in touch as soon as its online Just got a PM saying WAIT pyopencl released a new version so please test hehehe. So I am now

[Folax]

Hows that new version of pyopencl doing?

[drgr33n]

Hows that new version of pyopencl doing?

No faster or slower atm just some warnings about depreciated functions . I'm still tweaking but also trying to enjoy the first sunny day in Norwich all year

[Folax]

For people who cannot get persistency to work using the existing guides (like myself), here is another try which works for me (for LinuxCoin install):

You need:
USB thump drive
Windows PC
linuxcoin-vX (whatever version you want, get it here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0)
BOOTICE (get it here: http://www.pendriveapps.com/bootice-partition-flash-drive-edit-boot-sector/)
unetbootin (get it here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

Creating 2 partitions:
A. Put the USB thumbdrive in the Windows PC
B. Format the USB thumbdrive FAT32
C. Start Bootice

(Make sure you have selected the USB thumbdrive. Don't mind the size in this image)
D. Select Parts Manage

E. Select ReFormat USB disk

F. Select USB-HDD mode (Multi Partitions) and click Next
G. Enter 1024 in the first field (Partition1) and select FAT32 on Partition1 and Partition4, leave the rest as it is and click OK.

H. It will ask you to confirm the reformat of the partitions, click OK if you agree and finally you will get a confirmation box telling you all is ok.
I. Close this tool.

J. Start Unetbootin
K. Select to use an ISO
L. enter 1024 in the field for persistence
M. Click Install and wait, when it offers to reboot: exit.

Creating persistency:
1. Take the USB thumbdrive from the Window PC and put it in your soon-to-be Linux miner box
2. Boot, select persistence mode
3. When booted, open a root terminal, type:

sudo df

You should now get a list of your drives.
You should see /dev/sda2 mounted under /media/7A6D-A74F (or something like that)
sda is the drive, sda2 is the partition
4.

umount /media/7A6D-A74F
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 -L live-rw

5. It will not give a confirmation, now shut down the system and start it, selecting Persistence mode.
6. After rebooting, open a root terminal and do:

df

look at sda2, it should say: live/cow
For me it reads:
/dev/sda1 = /live/image
/dev/sda2 = /live/cow

Now you have persistence on your USB thumbdrive!

Note: I am obviously no Linux expert, or an expert in anything whatsoever, that is why I had to write this down, so I could do it again every time I need to. Please don't hesitate to correct me on anything, my girlfriend doesn't either...

[drgr33n]

For people who cannot get persistency to work using the existing guides (like myself), here is another try which works for me (for LinuxCoin install):

You need:
USB thump drive
Windows PC
linuxcoin-vX (whatever version you want, get it here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0)
BOOTICE (get it here: http://www.pendriveapps.com/bootice-partition-flash-drive-edit-boot-sector/)
unetbootin (get it here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

Creating 2 partitions:
A. Put the USB thumbdrive in the Windows PC
B. Format the USB thumbdrive FAT32
C. Start Bootice

(Make sure you have selected the USB thumbdrive. Don't mind the size in this image)
D. Select Parts Manage

E. Select ReFormat USB disk

F. Select USB-HDD mode (Multi Partitions) and click Next
G. Enter 1024 in the first field (Partition1) and select FAT32 on Partition1 and Partition4, leave the rest as it is and click OK.

H. It will ask you to confirm the reformat of the partitions, click OK if you agree and finally you will get a confirmation box telling you all is ok.
I. Close this tool.

J. Start Unetbootin
K. Select to use an ISO
L. enter 1024 in the field for persistence
M. Click Install and wait, when it offers to reboot: exit.

Creating persistency:
1. Take the USB thumbdrive from the Window PC and put it in your soon-to-be Linux miner box
2. Boot, select persistence mode
3. When booted, open a root terminal, type:

sudo su-
df

You should now get a list of your drives.
You should see /dev/sda2 mounted under /media/7A6D-A74F (or something like that)
sda is the drive, sda2 is the partition
4.

umount /media/7A6D-A74F
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 -L live-rw

5. It will not give a confirmation, now shut down the system and start it, selecting Persistence mode.
6. After rebooting, open a root terminal and do:

df

look at sda2, it should say: live/cow
For me it reads:
/dev/sda1 = /live/image
/dev/sda2 = /live/cow

Now you have persistence on your USB thumbdrive!

Note: I am obviously no Linux expert, or an expert in anything whatsoever, that is why I had to write this down, so I could do it again every time I need to. Please don't hesitate to correct me on anything, my girlfriend doesn't either...

Excellent guide Folax !! I'll put a link on the first post

[max in montreal]

finally he gets it!

[malavita]

Excellent guide - I was able to do it w/ the original instructions using just a Win7 pc and Unetbootin, but I will try this in XP.

Thanks, Folax!!