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I know many of you have asked me for Vertcoin and since you do need some knowledge of Linux and compiling, I thought it would be easier if you can just download my optimized USB Ubuntu image that contains a compiled Vertcoin with optimized settings for R9 280X, doing 700Kh/s for Scrypt and 327Kh/s for Scrypt-N. (Scrypt-N gets around 40-45% of hashrate compared to Scrypt)

I’ve also included my original Litecoin cgminer, so you can easily switch between the two.

If you are not familiar with Ubuntu, I highly recommend watching the video tutorial above along with these instructions.

Step 1. Next, download the HighOnCoins Scrypt/Scrypt-N image and flash to your 8GB USB drive using Win32DiskImager. (You can also use DD with Linux/Mac but that’s outside the scope of this tutorial, just Google it.)

I recommend you use a good USB 3.0 flash drive as their read/write speeds are much faster (even when using USB 2.0) and also they have less failures/corruption. I specifically use Kingston Data Traveler USB flash drives, these have worked really well for me in the past for months without errors. Some USB flash drives are really bad and they can ruin your stability so just make sure you get at least USB 3.0 flash drive.

Download HighOnCoins Scrypt and Scrypt-N Ubuntu Image for Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Vertcoin

Download Win32DiskImager

Step 2. You can connect to the Ubuntu by connecting a monitor cable to your first graphic card connected to the first PCI-E 16X slot and also connecting a keyboard/mouse. OR my preferred method is to connect an ethernet cable to your router then remotely SSH (using Putty or terminal), you can check for the IP address by checking your router’s LAN status.

Open a terminal and connect to using the following credentials:

id: litecoin

password: 123123

*Note – to change password, do “passwd” command in terminal.

Step 3. Type the following to set the AMD graphic drivers to recognize your graphic cards:

sudo sh ati.sh

Then do:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Count the number of graphic cards recognized by your rig.

For 6-card rig you should see something like below:

Section “ServerLayout”

Identifier “aticonfig Layout”

Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” 0 0

Screen “aticonfig-Screen[1]-0” RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0”

Screen “aticonfig-Screen[2]-0” RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[1]-0”

Screen “aticonfig-Screen[3]-0” RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[2]-0”

Screen “aticonfig-Screen[4]-0” RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[3]-0”

Screen “aticonfig-Screen[5]-0” RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[4]-0”

Which shows Screen[0] through Screen[5].

If you have less or more cards, you should see the appropriate number of Screen[].

If everything is being recognized, you are good to go, reboot your system by typing:

sudo reboot

Step 4. For Scrypt coins such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc…, you can type “nano /home/litecoin/cgminer/cgminer.conf” to edit the cgminer configuration files, you will be able to change the pool info to yours. Save when done.

For Scrypt-N coins such as Vertcoin, you can type “nano /home/litecoin/vertminer/vertminer.conf” to edit your pool info.

Step 5. To start the cgminer for Scrypt, simply type, “sh test.sh”. If you see “FAILED!”, it means it’s successful. (Sorry I forgot to edit that part while writing the script.) This will run cgminer in the background.

Likewise, to start cgminer for Scrypt-N, simply type “sh testvert.sh”.

Make sure you are only running Scrypt or Scrypt-N at one time, otherwise it will run both and you will get errors obviously.

Step 6. To actually see cgminer running, type “cgm”. To get out of it, press Ctrl + a + d. If you want to quit cgminer, type “q” instead.

Step 7. Once you get everything working great, you can enable auto-start script, which will start cgminer automatically upon boot, power-failure, lock-up, etc…etc…

For Scrypt:

Type “nano /etc/cron.d/saupdate” and remove the “#” from the this line and save:

#*/4 * * * * root sh /home/litecoin/test.sh

For Scrypt-N:

Type “nano /etc/cron.d/saupdate” and remove the “#” from the this line and save.

#*/4 * * * * root sh /home/litecoin/testvert.sh

If you want to switch from Scrypt to Scrypt-N, simply comment out the Scrypt test.sh line then uncomment the Scrypt-N testvert.sh. Also make sure you either reboot or quit the existing Cgminer process running in the background (type “cgm” then “q”).

I’ve also included some extra code you can comment out to restart your machine at a certain time of the day or every couple hours. This is a good idea since your graphic cards may go down sometimes, I usually reboot my rigs at least once a day and if the rig has more problems, every 3 hours.

Once that’s done, cron job will automatically check every 4 minute for cgminer and start it if its not running.

You can also check out my Vertcoin configs here.

If you want to know how I built this image, see here.

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