jarleven Posted July 26, 2017 Report Share Posted July 26, 2017 (edited) Community developed Linux distribution for mining Denarius. Suggestions in here please. Development will be done in https://github.com/jarleven/DenariOS  Short term goals:  Script for setting up miner and GPU drivers  Long term goals:   ISO liveCD with disk less support (USB). Web interface or other options to configure miner settings (no keyboard mouse screen required)   Unattended install: https://askubuntu.com/questions/122505/how-do-i-create-a-completely-unattended-install-of-ubuntu http://www.zerodev.it/automating-centos-netinstall-with-kickstart-and-remastering.html   Some things to look into : https://www.linux.com/learn/roll-your-own-customized-ubuntu-uck https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization  GPU drivers: http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/how-to-install-latest-nvidia-drivers-in.html https://askubuntu.com/questions/335285/how-to-change-proprietary-video-driver-using-the-command-line https://askubuntu.com/questions/830983/how-to-winstall-nvidia-drivers-to-use-cuda-without-also-installing-x11  Edited July 28, 2017 by jarleven Logo from Carsen Klock @carsenk 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enkayz Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 we have a ubuntu ppa with the coin daemon on it, will update it to build off the new source and then you include that in the build licensing will restrict the ability to distribute the GPU SDKs though 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frobisher Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 What browser will it come with? I think Ubuntu comes wtih Firefox as default and IMO that browser is kinda slow and bulky these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawaiiCrypto Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 Sounds like a good idea.. But you then have to decide if you want to support old ati/amd chips such as the 7990 or 280x etc.. Then 14.04 LTS is probably the best release to base a distro on. Not sure you can get drivers for new AMD cards working on 14.04 though? If not, then two maybe two distros are in order? One for old AMDs, one for new AMDs + Nvidia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted July 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 Maybe we can get away with just adding this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa AMD might not be that easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted July 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 I was thinking an option for running this without any screen. So the choice of browser is not really important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted July 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 (edited) Kickstart was suggested by @enkayz https://gist.github.com/funzoneq/d77369203ea447dc3cc2 https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/i386/ch04s06.html Edited July 28, 2017 by jarleven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted July 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 Some morning coffe thoughts.... What about an application like the open source Etcher X-platform USB ISO image writer. Open source repository https://github.com/resin-io/etcher and the official download site https://etcher.io/  Add something on top of this doing the following. download some minimal Linux distro modify with kickstart file downloaded from some denariusOS github repository give it all a massage and create the ISO file kick the Etcher to life and burn the USB media Now unplug your USB and put it in your miner.  A review of Ethcher below http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/etcher-usb-image-burner-tool-linux-open-source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donies666 Posted July 28, 2017 Report Share Posted July 28, 2017 On 7/26/2017 at 7:05 PM, KawaiiCrypto said: Sounds like a good idea.. But you then have to decide if you want to support old ati/amd chips such as the 7990 or 280x etc.. Then 14.04 LTS is probably the best release to base a distro on. Not sure you can get drivers for new AMD cards working on 14.04 though? If not, then two maybe two distros are in order? One for old AMDs, one for new AMDs + Nvidia. yes its true not all display driver are supported by ubuntu 16.10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted July 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 (edited) I think I will focus on the framework fist. The Nvidia drivers are already in a PPA so that should be possible to preconfigure a kickstart ks.cfg file I think. Any suggestions for AMD is welcome though. Edited July 29, 2017 by jarleven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarleven Posted August 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) Not really worth anything yet. Just a unattended installation of CPU miner In Ubuntu do the following sudo apt-get install vim libpthread-stubs0-dev zlib1g-dev git openssl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config make python-dev automake yasm wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.10.tar.gz tar -zxvf jansson-2.10.tar.gz cd jansson-2.10/ ./configure make sudo make install cd .. sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.so.4 /usr/lib/libjansson.so.4 sudo ldconfig git clone https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi cd cpuminer-multi ./build.sh ./cpuminer -a tribus -o stratum+tcp://pool.hashbag.cc:8688 -u DCJjft6LrKwGNnmTTEYzPhfw9dGyJct7LN -p x # # Status of of your miner on the pool # http://pool.hashbag.cc/?address=DCJjft6LrKwGNnmTTEYzPhfw9dGyJct7LN # Edited August 7, 2017 by jarleven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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