My experience installing on windows.

Spidey3000

got no response on cmd window either

geekhaven

yeah.. pip doesn't seem to be a part of 2.7

nchabra

I ran the following commands:
%PYTHON27_DIR%\Scripts\pip install bitcoin
%PYTHON27_DIR%\bin\python mk_genesis_block.py --extradata 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa

(I'm assuming that I have the right hash, but I'm not positive)

geekhaven

looks right

geekhaven

nchabra said:

I ran the following commands:
%PYTHON27_DIR%\Scripts\pip install bitcoin
%PYTHON27_DIR%\bin\python mk_genesis_block.py --extradata 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa

(I'm assuming that I have the right hash, but I'm not positive)

Thank you so much, 2.7 appears to be working for me.

geekhaven

I might do a video tutorial tomorrow. All the steps.

Spidey3000

hmm, since not doing pip.exe with 2.7, do i follow some new kind of instructions that I dont see?

geekhaven

nchabra has dropped the scrips into the relative folders within the 2.7 python install and run the commands as he listed substitute %PYTHON27_DIR% for your directory if the pathing fails.

""

%PYTHON27_DIR%\Scripts\pip install bitcoin
%PYTHON27_DIR%\bin\python mk_genesis_block.py --extradata 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa

""

Spidey3000

ya im just not getting any further. That help video you were talking about would be huge help for me to start from beginning to end and get it going.

geekhaven

I have three kids and a business but I'll see what i can do. I've got to build eth-miner yet and we'll se if the genesis block builds properly or not.

Spidey3000

good luck. I also am going to keep trying.

geekhaven

arg

Fatal: Could not start chainmanager: Genesis not found in chain
Fatal: Could not start chainmanager: Genesis not found in chain

Spidey3000

thats not good.

geekhaven

python mk_genesis_block.py --extradata 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa > genesis_block.json

have to add the make file at the end. For referance

geekhaven

Restart rerun script re import using geth --genesis genesis_block.jsonthink its working now

geekhaven

yes im cathcing up on blocks now

Spidey3000

nice congrats, im still trying to figure out the earlier steps lol

Spidey3000

even a quick just written guide with links and info from you would be great since you got it working

spraff

I got the script to run under Python 3. Here is a modified version: http://pastebin.com/ZHCZmi9b

It prints "API not returning data. Retrying" in a loop.

geekhaven

ethminer built

a few hours sleep really helped my brain.

pangolin1231

The script doesn't work on python 3. I installed python27 and you need to find the pip install script to install bitcoin library. After installed python27 and pip. The script should be working without any change

andyatcrux

geekhaven said:

nchabra said:

I ran the following commands:
%PYTHON27_DIR%\Scripts\pip install bitcoin
%PYTHON27_DIR%\bin\python mk_genesis_block.py --extradata 0x11bbe8db4e347b4e8c937c1c8370e4b5ed33adb3db69cbdb7a38e1e50b1b82fa

(I'm assuming that I have the right hash, but I'm not positive)

Thank you so much, 2.7 appears to be working for me.

Yes, thank you. Finally got it working with this.

shaned257

Any chance of a video tutorial? It'd be a big help.

geekhaven

I'll be working my laptop today. Even if I dont get a vid tutorial up ill do a proper step by step post it on my website. or harass me at my email. Its am here is Aus so once the kids are occupied ill begin work.

HeisenTrade

Spidey3000 said:

I installed Python 2.7 as suggested. Added pip.exe in terminal for python and got NameError 'pip' is not defined

Its located in
Python27\Scripts

geekhaven

shaned257 said:

Any chance of a video tutorial? It'd be a big help.

The instructions provided by ethereum team have really been cleaned up.

geekhaven

Written instructions almost up. Its still got some step omissions but I think its going to get most people through the process. I mean at least the commands are tested working and its using python 2.7.

geekhaven

So I'm going to add the doc here as a PDF hopefully it will help. I do intend to work on a video guide soon. However by the time I get through that I expect most of you have gotten it to work.

CrimsonFist

awesome job geekhaven, missing your link on the step 10 download genesis php script. Can you post the link please....thanks

dealhunter

great job, many thanks !