@sabre said in help needed getting started:
last year i created a dual boot win7 and os/x system just to see if i could make a mac and windows together worked great actually sold it to someone for like 4000…
If you made a dual-boot hackintosh, you’ve accomplished more technical challenges than a dual-boot lin/win system. I’m a heavy Mac user but don’t have the nerve (or need) to do that to my pc…
windows miner, which is already compiled and in the form of an exe file with premade config files for ftc, ltc,dopecoin, through pools and also solo mining so scrypt, neoscrypt, and the other main scrypts…
@AcidD is right — I would also whole-heartedly encourage trying out some distro’s using the free VirtualBox app. If you do want to try Fedora instead of CentOS 7, try sticking to version 21 at most — the latest is f26 — because with f22 gcc5 was introduced and I’ve found it causes errors compiling some miners because they’re written around a gcc4 environment. CentOS 7/RHEL 7 is loosely based around f19, so it’s not that big a jump. Also, Fedora sports a direct upgrade path from one version to the next, which CentOS 6/7 and many other distros do not for which you’d have to wipe/install.
Others here can help with which Ubuntu/apt flavors to stick with. I personally favor Linux Mint Xfce, or Cinnamon if you need a Start-like menu to feel at home.
@ghostlander provides pre-compiled Windows, linux, and Macintosh ( thank you!) neoscrypt-only ccminer binaries that you can mine FTC, ORB, PXC and HAL. (Don’t be concerned that they’re over a year old, they still work just as well.) If you want to wander into other algo’s, you’ll need to wander into tpruvot’s ccminer fork for which he supplies a pre-compiled Windows binary, but the source compiles perfectly on CentOS 7.3 with Cuda 8.0.
As far as pre-made config files, there really aren’t any… because the command line will be entirely based on the pool you’re using. All the major pools (except for p2pools generally) have their config parameters on the site. Solo-mining FTC (and ORB) probably isn’t wise due to current difficulty levels, but you can probably do so with PXC and HAL.
