Include HDD install details and related changes
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diff --git a/linux-usb-cgminer b/linux-usb-cgminer
index a529263..f3d3b54 100644
--- a/linux-usb-cgminer
+++ b/linux-usb-cgminer
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ The copy in cgminer (check to make sure it isn't older) is:
The original old verion on bitcointalk is:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg426741#msg426741
+========
+
+I have said to select English for the install process for 2 reasons:
+1) I don't know any other spoken language very well
+and
+2) I'm not sure what problems installing under a different language
+might cause (it will probably cause no problems but I don't know)
+
Software
========
Short hardware comment:
@@ -19,7 +27,10 @@ Your mining computer doesn't need any HDD or CD/DVD/BD as long as it has at
least 2GB of RAM, can boot USB, has some network connection to the internet
and of course a reasonable mining ATI graphics card
... Or you can boot a windows PC with the USB to only do mining ... and ignore
-the system HDD ... wasting energy running the HDD :)
+the system HDD ... wasting energy running the HDD (roughly 10 Watts per HDD) :)
+
+If you wish to install to an HDD instead of a USB,
+ see the changes to the instructions at the end
To create the USB, you need of course a 4GB USB and temporarily need a PC
with a CD (or DVD/BD) writer, a USB port and of course an internet
@@ -30,6 +41,9 @@ connection to the PC
2) Burn it to CD then boot that temporarily on any PC with a CD/DVD/BD and
a USB port (this and the next 2 step won't effect that PC)
+ Select "English" then select "Try Xubuntu without installing"
+ and wait for the desktop to appear
+ (this happens by default if you wait for the timeouts)
3) Plug in your 4GB USB device and it should appear on the desktop - you can
leave it's contents as long as there is at least 2.8GB free
@@ -205,3 +219,87 @@ The fix is to simply link the old curses library to the new name e.g.:
cd /lib64/
sudo ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5
+
+========
+
+If you wish to install to an HDD instead of a USB:
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+As per before:
+
+1) Download the xubuntu 11.04 desktop live CD iso for amd64
+ ( look here for mirrors: http://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu )
+
+Then:
+
+2) Burn it to CD then boot that on your new mining PC
+ Select "English" then select "Install Xubuntu"
+ (you have 30 seconds to do this)
+
+3) When the Install window comes up - again select "English" and click "Forward"
+
+4) The next page will show you if you meet certain install requirements
+ (make sure you do meet them all)
+ Don't select the download option
+ The 3rd party option isn't needed for mining so ignore that also
+
+ Click "Forward"
+
+5) With "Allocate drive space" it's probably easiest to say to use the
+ "Erase" option.
+
+ This is just for mining right? :)
+
+ However, if you have anything on the HDD that you want to keep - the
+ "Erase" install process will delete it - so back it up (quit the install)
+ Also make sure there are no OTHER HDD attached that it may erase also
+ i.e. only have attached the one HDD that you want to install onto unless
+ you know exactly what you are doing
+
+ If you see the "Install Xubuntu 11.04 alongside 'something'" then that
+ just means that the HDD wasn't blank.
+ If you want to try this option - do that yourself and then skip to step
+ 7) below when you get to that.
+
+ There are plenty of other options available if you select "Something else"
+ but I'm not going to go into all the details here other than to say that
+ my preferred partioning is: /boot = 1GB = ext2, swap = twice memory size,
+ / = 100GB = ext3 and the rest: /extra = ext3
+
+ Click "Forward"
+
+6) If you selected "Erase" then it allows you to choose the drive to install to
+ Then click "Install Now"
+
+7) "Where are you?" sort that out then click "Forward"
+
+8) "Keyboard layout" sort that out (use the default) then click "Forward"
+
+9) "Who are you?" The important one here is "Pick a username:" coz that's
+ the name you will need to ssh into, to access it remotely (and of course
+ the "Choose a Password" you set)
+
+ If you set the "username" to anything but "ubuntu" then: wherever in this
+ document I have mentioned the username "ubuntu" you must of course use the
+ username you chose here instead of "ubuntu"
+
+ Important: set it to "log in automatically" if you ever want to be able
+ to start cgminer without being in front of the computer since 'X' must
+ be running to use cgminer properly
+ That does of course mean that the computer isn't secure from anyone who
+ has access to it - but then again no computer that can automatically
+ reboot is secure from anyone who has access to the actual computer itself
+
+ Then click "Forward"
+
+10) Of course when it completes click on "Restart Now"
+ ... and remove the Xubuntu CD when it asks you
+
+11) Wait for it to finish rebooting ... and it will auto login
+ (unless you didn't do step 9) "Important:")
+
+12) After it logs in, an upgrade popup for 11.10 (or later) will appear
+ Select "Don't Upgrade"
+
+13) Now go to step 6) of the USB script above for what to do next and that
+ covers everything else needed