Or you need to install Hive OS on a GPU laptop for mining. If it is impossible to connect SSD to a laptop or PC, but you have a USB flash drive, you can transfer the contents of the flash drive to an SSD in the rig. If you want to prolong the life of your USB flash drive please run logs-off after installation. SSDs are much more reliable and advised to use in production environments. But be careful finding out output disk 'of', use fdisk -l to list your partitions. Something like dd if=hiveos-XXX.img of=/dev/sdX bs=10M status=progress. The ready rig.conf file can be downloaded from the rig’s settings.Īdvanced Unix (Linux or Mac) users can use dd to write RAW image to disk. Please find rig-config-example.txt on HIVE drive. It can write unpacked ZIP archive as well.Īlternatively you can use Rufus as an image writing tool.Īfter the image is flashed you will discover newly created drive in your system where you will be able to precreate rig.conf with worker's ID and password or FARM_HASH. However, if you try to run DMG files on Windows, it will not be compatible and no application in Windows can run it. Since this is a native application, no downloads are required. If you have a Mac, then Disk Utility will help you create your bootable USB drive. Etcher is a recommended tool to write Hive images on the drives. Method 1: How to Burn DMG to USB on macOS or Mac OS X.
