[1000FTC BOUTNY] - Create step by step Windows and Linux mining tutorial
-
Windows
- Drivers
- If you have a GPU, you must have the correct drivers.
- For nVidia cards, you can find your drivers here: http://www.geforce.co.uk/drivers if you know what card you have, select it from the list, if you dont know which card you have, run the auto detector.
- For AMD cards, you can find your drivers here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download again if you know what card you have, select if from the list, if not, use the auto detector.
- Once you have the drivers fully installed (you may need to reboot your computer), you should be good to go!
- Wallet
- Firstly, you will need a feathercoin wallet, this can be downloaded here: http://www.feathercoin.com/#dls (make sure you pick the windows download)
- Install it, and let it sync up (this may take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on your connection speed and cpu speed, on my laptop this took about 36 hours)
- Note down your FTC address somewhere (you can find this in the ‘receive’ tab of the wallet software), this will be needed later if you are pool mining!
- Pool Mining
- find yourself an FTC mining pool, to name 3: http://give-me-coins.com http://wemineftc.com and http://ftc.nut2pools.com all work and are tested by me.
- create yourself an account at one (or more) of them.
- create yourself a worker, with an apropriate username and password (password does not have to be super duper secure, anything will do)
- NOTE: if using give-me-coins.com, make sure you have selected the FTC pool to create workers in, as workers in other pools are seperate to the FTC one.
- find your pools mining server, for give-me-coins: stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336, for wemineftc.com: stratum+tcp://stratum.wemineftc.com:4444 for nut2pools: stratum+tcp://ftceu.nut2pools.com:5567 and note it down
- You may set your payout address to the address of your wallet.
- GPU
-
Get yourself a card, pick a card, any card, pretty much any card will work, as long as it is opencl capable.
-
Download your miner software: http://cryptomining-blog.com/wp-content/files/cgminer-3.7.8-neoscrypt.zip (it may flag as a virus, this is a false alarm, it is safe)
-
Extract it to a memorable location (perhaps your desktop).
-
In the folder you just extracted, if you have an AMD card, open START-AMD.bat in notepad (or other text editing software), for nVidia cards this is START-NVIDIA.bat
-
START-NVIDIA.bat:
cgminer.exe --neoscrypt --no-submit-stale -o -u -p -I 13
-
START-AMD.bat:
cgminer.exe --neoscrypt --no-submit-stale -o -u -p -I 14 -w 32
-
change your parameters to what match your pool/workers, -o is the mining server, -u is username (this is in the format Username.Workername), -p is password (for the worker)
-
launch the appropriate .bat file!
-
the miner should now be mining away, you may notice your graphics cards fan speeding up, this is normal as mining does put a lot of load on the graphics card, and will make it get fairly hot.
-
watch it for a while, make sure your gpu does not get too hot! and make sure your gpu is generating valid shares, hardware errors and rejected shares are a sign that something is wrong.
-
play with settings to see what runs fastest for you, -w 16 (or --worksize 16) appears to work best on nVidia cards.
- CPU
-
Pick a chip, any chip (no not those fried peices of potato you can eat, you need a silicon processor chip!)
-
Download your miner software: http://phoenixcoin.org/downloads/cpuminer-neoscrypt-win-2.4.zip
-
extract the file that matches your OS architecture (32bit for windows 32 bit, 64bit for windows 64 bit) to somewhere memorable (perhaps on your desktop)
-
open notepad (or your favourite text editor)
-
save file to the same folder you extracted the minerd.exe to, as a .bat file (notepad: save as, name start.bat, type all files)
-
enter something like this into it, replacing the params with your own information:
minerd.exe -o -u -p
7. to hide the constant hashrate notifications, you can add -q as a startup param, and to specify the number of threads to run, use -t n (where n is the number of threads you wish to use, more threads than cpu threads is not recommended)
8. run the miner (launch start.bat)
9. you should now be mining! keep an eye on things, especially cpu temperature, if your fans get faster that is normal, they’re speeding up to keep your pc cool.
#################################
pictures are in progress!
please read through this and correct any mistakes (im half asleep, i’m bound to have made some stupid mistake)
feel free to add more information (for amd cards perhaps)
i will try set up some kind of guide thing on my site (http://mining.neoscrypt.tk/), and will add guides there too when i can (im busy making a hardware comparison site right now - http://hw.neoscrypt.tk/ please submit your hardware specs and hashrates at [http://hw.neoscrypt.tk/new/)][10]
[10]: http://hw.neoscrypt.tk/new/)
-
Damm wake up and see this and the tutorials have already been put together.
I guess its true what they say ‘You snooze, you loose’. :D
-
Well theres still the linux one, its now a race between you and ketetefid as to who gets it up first :P
Thats if mine is accepted, anyway, who knows!
-
I haven’t got a linux box set up for mining, only Raspberry Pis which I just use to run full nodes and projects.
The closest I have is a Ubuntu VM box on my windows machine.
If someone doesn’t get one put together in the next few days I’ll take a crack at the Linux one though
-
@SpartanC001 looks good. Have to read the whole thing but I have 500 reserved for you :)
-
@SpartanC001 looks good. Have to read the whole thing but I have 500 reserved for you :)
btw thread title says BOUTNY :p
-
btw thread title says BOUTNY :P
I know, do not worry about that.
-
Is Boutny like HODL?
-
Is Boutny like HODL?
Hahaha nice find xD good laugh!
-
Spartan, send you 500FTC. Thank you for your tutorial.
Would be great if you can add it on your Neoscrypt miner comparison site ;)
-
Spartan, send you 500FTC. Thank you for your tutorial.
Would be great if you can add it on your Neoscrypt miner comparison site ;)
Thanks, and I will do, when i get it up, it will be on http://mining.neoscrypt.tk/ (still working on the hardware comparison admin panel)
I’ll also put a copy of latest cgminer / cpuminer-neoscrypt on the dl site, just incase the other links go down for any reason
feels great to be helping in the progression/development of a great cryptocurrency!
I’ll also add the linux tutorial to the site aswell once someone uploads that, unless it comes till after xmas and i get my mining rig up and running (xmas ain’t that far away now lol), then i’ll be making it myself if noone has done one yet :P
-
I’ll also add the linux tutorial to the site aswell once someone uploads that, unless it comes till after xmas and i get my mining rig up and running (xmas ain’t that far away now lol), then i’ll be making it myself if noone has done one yet :P
It won’t be made that late!
I am currently almost close to finishing it but I will not upload it until I have finished all of it. The most challenging part is that I am trying to make it multi-distribution and noob friendly as much as I can. Unlike Windows, the commands for different distributions might be different (especially for the preparation part). It has been so time-consuming for me to figure out the names of the needed packages in different distributions.
Furthermore, It would include simple mining monitoring howtos and task management through Cron for a crash-resistant, idle-resistant complete mining machine in Linux; something that will be autonomous as much as possible.
-
It won’t be made that late!
I am currently almost close to finishing it but I will not upload it until I have finished all of it. The most challenging part is that I am trying to make it multi-distribution and noob friendly as much as I can. Unlike Windows, the commands for different distributions might be different (especially for the preparation part). It has been so time-consuming for me to figure out the names of the needed packages in different distributions.
Furthermore, It would include simple mining monitoring howtos and task management through Cron for a crash-resistant, idle-resistant complete mining machine in Linux; something that will be autonomous as much as possible.
Sounds good…500FTC waiting for you?
-
Sounds good…500FTC waiting for you?
Some other people might have already put the howto together! Time will tell us. Anyway, even if somebody else got it, I would upload mine so the good/needed/extra parts can be added to the official how to.
-
The howto is almost done and will be uploaded in 1 or 2 days. It is a 13-page detailed howto comprising:
Table of Contents
1. Prerequisites
2. GPU mining
2.1. Using an AMD card
2.2. Using an NVIDIA card
2.3. Installing necessary tools for compiling the miner
2.4. Compiling the latest Neo-gpuminer from source
2.5. Compiling and building a Feathercoin wallet
2.6. Using Neo-gpuminer
2.7. Tuning Neo-gpuminer
2.7.1. Parameters related to GPU health
2.7.2. Parameters related to performance
3. CPU mining
3.1. Installing required packages to build cpuminer-neoscrypt
3.2. Compiling and installing the latest cpuminer-neoscrypt
3.3. Using cpuminer-neoscrypt
4. Monitoring
5. Task management
-
Sounds awesome :)
-
Furthermore, could somebody who owns an Nvidia card please post the output of “nvidia-smi” as a normal user when no cgminer is running and again when the gpu is under full load? I do not have an Nvidia card, but I need the outputs to update the scripts for Nvidia users as well. Please kindly attach the outputs exactly as they are in two separate files.
-
System: OpensSuSE 12.3 Linux
cgminer running:
it looks like cgminer is using a fraction of the available memory
nvidia-smi Wed Dec 3 12:34:16 2014 +------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 340.24 Driver Version: 340.24 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 32% 44C P0 N/A / N/A | 331MiB / 2047MiB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -
sgminer not runing (stopped just before the commmand)
+------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 340.24 Driver Version: 340.24 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 31% 39C P0 N/A / N/A | 27MiB / 2047MiB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -
Hello,
I came to upload the howto and saw that one of the staff has kindly provided the nvidia-smi outputs. Anyway, as I already promised, I am going to upload the howto now.
Table of Contents
1. Prerequisites
2. GPU mining
2.1. Using an AMD card
2.2. Using an NVIDIA card
2.3. Installing necessary tools for compiling the miner
2.4. Compiling the latest Neo-gpuminer from source
2.5. Compiling and building a Feathercoin wallet
2.6. Using Neo-gpuminer
2.7. Tuning Neo-gpuminer
2.7.1. Parameters related to GPU health
2.7.2. Parameters related to performance
2.7.3. A complete, concrete Neo-gpuminer example
2.8. sgminer: an alternative mining program for AMD systems
3. CPU mining
3.1. Installing required packages to build cpuminer-neoscrypt
3.2. Compiling and installing the latest cpuminer-neoscrypt
3.3. Using cpuminer-neoscrypt
4. Monitoring
5. Task management
I should mention that two subjects are outstanding. The first is providing information for Fedora, Opensuse and Arch (information is already provided for Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo). Since I myself test the commands, I am going to install the OS-es in virtualbox and update the howto for them as well. The second is updating the main script for Nvidia users. I would definitely do this as well and because of this I asked for nvidia-smi output. However, it seems that the information I was interested in is not shown in the default output and one should specify “nvidia-smi -d UTILIZATION” to get the GPU utilization. Anyway, I sincerely thank Wellenreiter for taking the time to provide the information. I would be grateful if he or anybody else gives me the output of the new command since the howto script is based on the utilization of the GPU. The script is not complicated at all and according to the GPU usage it determines whether the program should start or not.
Please read the howto and give me your opinion about it. It might be a good idea to start a new thread where newbies can comment on it whenever they cannot understand a part.
And do not worry; because I will definitely update the howto.
The Libreoffice word file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFZDYyNjRLQkhOWGs/view?usp=sharing
The pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFYmdkczhhbnB3Mzg/view?usp=sharing
