Quote from: Crypt_Current on August 16, 2011, 04:19:03 AM

I'm entering into the mining world with my modest 2x 5830 rig that I pieced together over the last couple months with the extremely limited resources available to me...

I have no extra hard drive, no one I know wants to donate one, and I have no money left to buy one. So, I thought my only option would be Linuxcoin. After seeing this thread, I am interested in all the features SMARTcoin provides.

A couple questions: How much space do I need to install and run SMARTcoin?

and: Can anyone provide a comparison features list of SMARTcoin versus Linuxcoin?

crypt: i would strongly discourage using any HD in a miner, the extra heat/pwr consumption is unnecessary. rather, get yourself a 4gb (2gb will suffice) USB flash disk, install linuxcoin onto that usin the unetbootin from the wiki/thread/site and install the distribution onto the flash. most modern bios allow booting to usb and if you want, you can configure 'persistent' booting, which basically means changes are saved onto the usb and used next boot.

a miner needs to be nimble and recoverable. using linuxcoin accomplishes this well allowing the user LOTS of room to play with whatever their particular path requires. ex: apt-get install <> !!

to become a PROFITABLE miner, one needs to be nimble, recoverable and SMART! this is where smartcoin comes in, making smart choices of where to mine! this is preformed within the linuxcoin enviroment... there is a big distinction.

linuxcoin is a distribution of linux
smartcoin is a application running on linux

hope that helps!