..::[ Create a Whitecoin Full Node Without Compiling on Raspberry Pi ]::..
A strong and healthy network of nodes help spread the blockchain around the globe, and help keep the network healthy.
For those that don't know what Raspberry Pi is, it is a small linux computer which is about the size of a pack of playing cards and only costs around $40, plus the cost of an SD card.
This instruction is to create a Whitecoin full node on a Raspberry Pi.
You will need the following things before we start
* Raspberry Pi Model B, B+, or 2 B
* Minimum 8Gb class 10SD card, but I recommend a 16Gb Note: You may even get away with a 4GB card but I recommend against it
* Monitor, keyboard and mouse to plug into the Pi for Initial setup (Not needed after setup is complete
* You need to read up on your router and find out how to make it statically assign an IP address to the Raspberry Pi and how to set up port forwarding on it for both inbound and outbound traffic on port 9336
* You need to be able to SSH from your main computer to the PI to check it. If you have never done this before you will need to download and install Putty from here
http://www.putty.org/* To use Putty just start it and enter the IP address your router has assigned the Pi and make sure port 22 is entered into the port field
* To work out what IP address your router has assigned the Pi you can either open up lxterminal when the pi first booted up and type in ifconfig and it will give you the Pi’s IP address or you can get this by logging into your router
I will not go into the detail on how to do a standard install of Raspbian off Noobs as the Raspberry Pi website gives great instruction on how to do this.
if you do not know where to download Noobs from you get it here.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/This link is to the howto to install Noobs onto the SD card
http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/The few extra things you should do over a standard install is
* Change the password from the default password for extra security.
* I also recommend doing minor overclocking to 800Mhz.
* Don’t forget to enable SSH during setup
* I recommend changing the memory split from 64 to only 32Meg for the video to give more memory to the CPU
* Don’t forget to select your timezone
* Consider changing the hostname if you already have more than one Pi on your network
Set up Rasbian as per the instructions from the Raspberry Pi website and SSH into the Pi.
Note as configured this script will download a precompiled version of whitecoind to save you 2 hours of compiling,
if you want to compile it yourself uncommoment that section of the script and comment out the bit that downloads the precompiled one.
To Download everything off github onto your Pi use the following command
git clone
https://github.com/Oizopower/XWC_Raspberry_Pi_Full_NodeNow enter the directory XWC_Raspberry_Pi_Full_Node
cd XWC_Raspberry_Pi_Full_Node/
We now need to make the script executable by typing
sudo chmod 755 whitecoind_node_precompiled.sh
Now we need to start the install script by typing.
./whitecoind_node_precompiled.sh
This will
* Update the Pi to the latest version
* Install needed applications to run whitecoind,
* Set up a firewall, that will allow ssh in and whitecoind to talk to other clients
* Download whitecoind
* Create a conf file with input from you to select a password for RDC
* Download a fairly recent blockchain and chainstate to speed up the process of getting it running
* create an /etc/init.d entry to start whitecoind as using ‘pi’ at boot
You are now on the home stretch.
You now need to log into your router and statically assign the IP address to the Pi and enable port forwarding to this IP address both inbound and outbound on port 15814.
You will need to read your router's manual to find out how to do this.
Once you have set up your router its time to test it.
Type sudo reboot
And wait some time for it to start up.
