Mining Bitcoin using a FREE Windows OS!

[DavinciJ15]

Like I said Basiley, I'm not a fan of linux.

Even if you are not. You have all the reason to become one.
If you don't have the time to grow knowledge about the OSthen I fully understand; but if not you are making a big mistake.

WE Have 2 days before the difficulty doubles so tell me how do I learn linux in 2 days and be a pro at it?

[keybaud]

Still yet to find a legitimate way of using 'leverage' that can't be replaced with 'use'.

"Use your Windows knowledge" vs "leverage your windows knowledge".

Sorry, my pet hate is excessive use of made-up words.

[Clipse]

Ok lets get something right, Hyper-v is not refered to as an OS, its refered to as either a.) OS-based hypervisor (if you run on windows 2008) or b.) baremetal hypervisor.

Refering to Hyper-v as an OS is just wrong in so many ways.

Can you inform us all how you intend to mine from cli and with which miner?

Like I said Basiley, I'm not a fan of linux.

Even if you are not. You have all the reason to become one.
If you don't have the time to grow knowledge about the OSthen I fully understand; but if not you are making a big mistake.

WE Have 2 days before the difficulty doubles so tell me how do I learn linux in 2 days and be a pro at it?

Look at linuxcoin iso in this forum, install on usb or on harddrive, which is cheaper/prefered.

All the instructions to get mining is in the OP for linuxcoin, if you could figure out hyper-v base server then this should be a breeze.

Remember you want to run miners, you only need to know up how to run the mining software, rest of the linux geekstuff doesnt have to be used in case of mining so no serious learning curve of geekdom.

[DarkKnightNomeD]

im downloading the hyper v torrent, ill probably seed for a week or 2 at 30KBS 40KBS when i can

[error]

Home Land Security!  I feel very insecure with you around please go away.
LOL not you personally but the department!

Look more closely.

[DavinciJ15]

Ok lets get something right, Hyper-v is not refered to as an OS, its refered to as either a.) OS-based hypervisor (if you run on windows 2008) or b.) baremetal hypervisor.

Refering to Hyper-v as an OS is just wrong in so many ways.

Can you inform us all how you intend to mine from cli and with which miner?

Like I said Basiley, I'm not a fan of linux.

Even if you are not. You have all the reason to become one.
If you don't have the time to grow knowledge about the OSthen I fully understand; but if not you are making a big mistake.

WE Have 2 days before the difficulty doubles so tell me how do I learn linux in 2 days and be a pro at it?

Look at linuxcoin iso in this forum, install on usb or on harddrive, which is cheaper/prefered.

All the instructions to get mining is in the OP for linuxcoin, if you could figure out hyper-v base server then this should be a breeze.

Remember you want to run miners, you only need to know up how to run the mining software, rest of the linux geekstuff doesnt have to be used in case of mining so no serious learning curve of geekdom.

The Linux crowd reminds me of the Mac Crowd, getting angry and snotty does not make me want to jump ship.  What would help is showing how easy in a video or tutorial.

Instead you want to act all smart like saying it's not an OS.  Shocking statement since it has everything I need to run windows programs.  I wonder if you consider any phone has an OS since they only run apps written for the phone.  LOL   

Don't get all miffy just having fun.   

Look I'm not married to Windows I wanted to leverage my development skills and knowledge that's all.

Don't take it personal.

Davinci

[DavinciJ15]

Home Land Security!  I feel very insecure with you around please go away.
LOL not you personally but the department!

Look more closely.

I guess I should have read it.  LOL cute.

[ivkowalenko]

The Linux crowd reminds me of the Mac Crowd, getting angry and snotty does not make me want to jump ship.  What would help is showing how easy in a video or tutorial.

Well, in this case, LinuxCoin is pretty easy to use, since all you have to do is boot it and run the miner. It's the same basic command line syntax used with Windows (save for ./ for invoking executables in the folder directory currently open).

There's a lot of tutorials on how to use Linux out there, and a good one to tinker with is Ubuntu. If you want something far more customizable, check out Debian. Of course, there are a thousand flavors to try, but those two happen to be my favorite.

If you need help anywhere along the way, consult the man pages. It's a simple software manual that is typically called by entering

Code:

man (command or program name here)

Use the / key to search (hitting / then enter again will pull up the next result). -h and --help usually are good for quick references, but lack the more in-depth explanations a man page can provide. For everything else, Google.

I'm not trying to foist Linux upon you, just trying to answer your question. Like I said earlier: I'm not running a Linux machine, and I have my reasons for not using Linux. However, you asked for a basic tutorial, and that's what I'm giving you. Helped me figure out Mandrake and Debian in high school, before we had all these user-friendly(er) distros and YouTube tutorials.

P.S. - Also, Ctrl+Alt+(1-6) will bring up one of six terminal screens. 7 and above are typically reserved for X Window sessions (hence, Ctrl+Alt+7 will typically bring you back to a GUI). This will be useful if you ever run into a problem where something causes X Windows to stop responding. Just pop over to a terminal, figure out what's going on using top, and kill -9 that PID. Or just kill X Windows and watch it load up again.

Just offering advice, not trying to ram anything down your throat.

[DavinciJ15]

Just offering advice, not trying to ram anything down your throat.

I get it, thanks, but here is the issue lets say I want to do something cool like I don't know reprogram something to work they way I want it to.  Take for example the sconfig.vbs script, for me it was a snap to reprogram it without looking shit up.  Right now I have many options in windows that I know from experience, with linux I would have to learn a new language and I could hit pitfalls I already been through in windows.  

To me it's not a "I support WinBlowz" kind of thing, it's what makes economic sense.

Oh no I didn't just DIS Windows?  Oh yes I did.

LOL

Davinci

[PandaMiner]

I downloaded this thing and put it on USB.  had some minor problems at first, like no network detected.

Also, the batch menu is not user friendly.  It asks for "device?" and I put some string like "XFX Radeon HD 6870" but now I realize it was asking for "0" or "1" etc.

Same thing goes for "pool url" I put "btcguild.com" but of course, it's "<server>.btcguild.com"

I exited the menu, and there is no way to run the menu up again.  Taskmanger works, so I was able to run CMD and finally see the miner1.bat file. There is no dos-based (or GUI based) text editor, so I had to use the ole "Copy Con" route.  Sigh.

But, Xanderdee, I mean Davinci, did say in the video it was difficult at first.  I had to draw on my old DOS 5.22 days, and even I think this HyperV is a new language, lol.  Man, i didn't realize how much I depended on GUI.

[kokojie]

why bother with hyper-v, just run an un-activated win7, completely legal and fully functional for mining purpose.

[CanaryInTheMine]

Really cannot see the point in this.

Just use Linux. No need for dummy VGA plugs and also no 4 GPU limit !

11.6 drivers increase GPU limit.  there's no 4 GPU limit anymore.

[CanaryInTheMine]

DavinciJ15,

- which sdk version is included? 

- what version are the drivers?  11.6 by any chance?

- which miner/s does it allow/include?

- is MSI Afterburner supported? if not, how do I overclock and set the fan speed?

Thanks!

[Mousepotato]

I wish I had known about this before.  I just spent $29.95 (student discount) on Win7 Pro 64.  Oh well.

[PandaMiner]

- what version are the drivers?  11.6 by any chance?
- which miner/s does it allow/include?
- is MSI Afterburner supported? if not, how do I overclock and set the fan speed?

from what I remember of the /software/ folder:

11.2 and 11.4
polcbm command line for miners
Full GUI afterburner runs on this

[Bitcoin Swami]

Hey Davinci glad to see you here, you been taking a beating on your silver channel ever since you started talking about bitcoins. lol. 

If you want to learn linux, just start with linuxcoin at first.  I didn't know crap about linux 3 days ago.. with linuxcoin i was up and mining in minutes, straight from a usb drive with no need for a hard drive. 

I realize that linuxcoin is mining for dummies kinda but its a good start and I'm learning more about linux.  I like it.  Hopefully i dont turn into a snob.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all the bitcoin videos davinci 

[mmortal03]

- is MSI Afterburner supported? if not, how do I overclock and set the fan speed?

Good question, I'd also like to know this.

Edit: Whoops, already answered:

from what I remember of the /software/ folder:

Full GUI afterburner runs on this

[Clipse]

davinci havnt replied in a while, think he is still busy learning linux

 

[mmortal03]

Just so you guys know, this will only work with x64 compatible processors with Intel VT or AMD-V technology enabled.

No 32-bit option here for anybody running an Intel Atom netbook with a ViDock setup (in otherwords myself, and nobody else that I know of!)

To be specific, this won't work on any Atom processor, because current Atom processors either don't support x64, or don't support VT-x.