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wow, what a cool project!!

Sorry to barge in like this. I am only on page 7 so far and am sure the answer to my question is in the next 273 pages Wink

Is there a way to run a script or is there a list of things to install on an existing Ubuntu LTS?
My rig is our media center and file share server, but would like to add a dozen cards or so (asus mining expert) to do some mining, as it is idle most of the time.

Thanks
366Cobra

I think its easier to reformat your existing ubuntu and install nvOC then install and set samba, nfs,... and any thing else you need for your media center instead of going through installing and setting up nvOC over an existing ubuntu.

I think his request seems quite interesting to me.
By developing an installable package on a stable "normal" ubuntu (I say normal to mean that this system would only be installed from the ISO provided by cannonical), Fullzero's scripts and all the others could be spread on much more mining rig.
I admit that it is also another work a little wider and tedious, but in fine, the nvOC package could thus be deployed much more widely and probably also on debian or probably other systems.

He would thus make a big competition to ethOS which makes pay his scripts, even if the first goal is not this one, that would perhaps make them review their commercial policy that personally, I find doubtful.
It would probably also bring other linuxians (called "bearded"!) :-) in some circles ha ha! ) to help this very active community of this thread to further optimize scripts and mining software.

Start with a package including software and scripts adapted for an ubuntu and then chained with a debian more classic and less heavy IMO, and observe if this package could interest the other communities of the other banks of Linux like RED HAT, Fedora and / or Mint ... etc.

Would not it be judicious also to reserve this distribution Ubuntu to the beginners with Linux because it is necessary to recognize this to him, ubuntu tries then a few years to convert the workstations windows to Linux.
In my country, it has done rather well to the national gendarmerie! A civil branch of the police.

I think it would be interesting to put these scripts on a system less heavy volume in one way or another.

I hope that what I am trying to express is understandable to some of those who have read this post.

The idea is nice but not quite practical. There are a lot of differences between linux distros and their backbone so such a project would require quite a big team of developers and testers to execute. Just see what happened few weeks back when ubuntu pushed updates... screwed up the operation on single distro, single version.... imagine if we had 6-7 different distros... even the big software companies don't support more than 3-4 main distrubutions of linux.
Different distros handle libraries, drivers, config files differently, not to mention the selection of preinstalled software... it will be impossible to support that from a community driven free project like this

Yes, I understood what you are saying here. I am well aware of this diversity in Linux distributions. I was just saying that to make a package of a few MB available would be much better than putting an entire system!

For the other systems, those who would like it in the other communities would manage themselves to adapt them to their systems. It was not a question of wanting to control the other branches in a minnning system since this thread or even a dedicated project.

I only think that a simple package would be interesting elsewhere than on ubuntu.

Making an Ubuntu package should not be so different from making a package for Debian. And nothing prevents to continue to put in availability the current file of a whole system.

Finally, I ask myself a question: Would not it be possible to transfer a maximum of things that are not very useful for the mining for the most experienced? Most Linux users pilot their RIGs from another PC via SSH, so it seems to me that the graphics layer does not appear to be essential. This is just an example by others ...

While beginners or inexperienced would become recalcitrant, but nothing prevents to make a package with graphic layer and the other without a graphic layer.

For the graphical drivers pb of two weeks ago, yes, I remember, but Fullzero explained himself about it. he particularly mentioned his desire to keep up to date a certain number of things for safety for example.

In fact, it is always the same: a simple use for beginners and advanced use for "a little" more experienced. This is the problem of simple scripts that some people can not configure for lack of experience. I do not know where FZ0 is in its arbitration of several 1 bash and several 3main according to the various mining scripts provided at the beginning. I understood that he wanted to combine two types of versions: beginners and advanced users.

A package, only a package that would be intallable on a fresh installation of ubuntu (I probably have trouble expressing myself on this because I just wanted to indicate a package uniquemet pure ubuntu at the start, and others do what he wants, that's all). A package with a list of prerequisite tests to install the package.
The comamdne aptitude handles dependencies pretty well if I remember correctly. And even without such an automated installation script, it would be quite simple to list the necessary installation Before uncompressing the scripts and preamble and / or to make a simplified installation guide on a web page.

It's a bit more complicated than that... I am not saying that it can't be done but it's lots of work...

For example, what you call the graphic layer, the X server (or xorg) is essential service as the nvidia drivers will not load without it. So you can't have pure console experience running miner without the X server. On top of X server there are different graphical interfaces like unity (current implementation on nvOC), gnome, kde, etc... all requiring different setup. The base programs that come with one are not installed by default on another. They could be installed but sometimes they don't work well or don't work at all, eg. kde/gnome. A lot of scripts are hardcoded to work with guake which isn't installed by default on kde...
The default nvidia driver installed on nvOC is tweaked for ubuntu and will not work on other distro, you would need to install the driver manualy...
The location of xorg.conf is not same on debian and redhat... etc... sudo implementation is also different... there's just too many differences... not an easy task

Wow, this post really got going Wink

>I think its easier to reformat your existing ubuntu and install nvOC then install and set samba, nfs...
Yeah, no, that is not going to fly.
That would mean that after a new version comes out, I would need to start from scratch.
I do not only run Kodi, but have samba, AFP, raid, VPN sever, multiple VMs, database, ..... - i use this box to develop on as well Wink

Have started downloading the latest version and will see if I can make out what needs installing.
If there is a list of things that need to be installed, so that I can just update parts,then that would be very useful.

The project is not by any chance available publicly, e.g. github, is it? then i could see by timestamp what has changed and update my rig.
Is there a way to become a contributor?

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