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. See this post to get Rufus Windows 11 download and follow the steps given by MiniTool for Rufus bootable USB. Something like dd if=hiveos-XXX.img of=/dev/sdX bs=10M status=progress. Windows 11 is a brand new operating system of Microsoft and here let’s learn how to use a Windows 11 ISO file and the Rufus tool to create a bootable USB drive. 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. After creating a bootable USB with the Rufus tool, I tried booting with it. Please find rig-config-example.txt on HIVE drive. Hirens Boot CD is a Live Windows 10 Bootable CD/DVD/USB operating system. 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. Etcher is a recommended tool to write Hive images on the drives.