The Ultimate HIVEOS Setup and Install Guide for New Miners

In today's video we discuss the New Method to Setting Up a Mining Rig in HIVEOS. HIVEOS went ahead and changed their New Rig Setup Process, so this guide will help you setup a SSD and/or USB Drive with HIVEOS and your Config File. Enjoy!
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📕Video Chapters For Quick Reference:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Hiveos Setup and Install Guide for USB and SSD Drives
01:30 USB SATA to USB Adapter for SSD Setup
02:15 How to Install HIVEOS on a SSD
04:45 Setting Up A New Rig in HIVEOS
09:20 First Boot of HIVEOS on your SSD Drive
09:50 How to Install HIVEOS on a USB
12:50 First Boot of HIVEOS on your USB Drive
The Ultimate HIVEOS Setup and Install Guide for New Miners
HIVEOS Setup
How to Setup HIVEOS
How to Install HIVEOS
HIVEOS Tutorial
HIVEOS Beginners GUide
HIVEOS USB Install
HIVEOS SSD Install
HIVEOS Mining Beginners Guide
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[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Are you Mining on a USB, HDD, SSD, M.2 SSD or MSATA SSD?

[@AnonymousMiner2]

uhh all of them :D

[@sandfishhh]

SSD

[@paladdin1500]

SSD , switching to M2 in the works 😂

[@greasywrenchgarage3152]

I am using USB

[@intech7863]

can i use 160gb hdd 2.5 from laptop or 1tb 2.5 hdd from laptop?

[@tradershustle]

Bro, I was just about to give up on HiveOS bc all the other videos where of the old version of how to add a worker and obviously the whole thing changed like you said. Thanks I got everything working as it should. Now time to add the gpu’s!!

[@TheLongAndNarrowPath]

Excellent video! This was the only video that I could find that covered how to add the .conf file the new way. Even the tutorial on the hiveos site hadn't updated to cover this change. Thanks so much! Looking forward to part 2!

[@xChick]

Very helpful and just in time. My power just surged and I lost all my settings for the last time because I can't take it anymore, so I decided to download HiveOS and had absolutely no idea how. Your video is perfect, thank you.

[@kevingrunert5665]

Oh my gracious! it took me all weekend. It was a good learning curve, but I used your video step by step and I am Good To Go! Thank you so much, you are a great help.

[@edwardkervin]

Bro I decided to start mining and your videos have been very helpful. I really like how you take your time to show and explain everything steps by step thanks a lot.

[@texashash6778]

For real bro you’ve helped me so much on joy journey! Thanks for making these videos! I can’t wait to get my farm up and going to start making videos as well.

[@SladeRotmg]

I swear this video was made for me. As soon as I get my first rig to boot this video gets uploaded lmao. Thanks Hobbyist!

[@michaelfelix1]

Thanks for this Video Hobbyist. I started mining back in February & I just finally moved from Windows to HiveOS.

[@RIPButton]

Very Informative, Thanks for this brother, Merry Christmas!

[@dennismatthews7560]

Best explanation yet, thanks for spending the time todo this! It helps tremendously

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

You're very welcome!

[@billbirt3009]

Great video. This weekend I used the new flash system from Hive. I was able to create a bootable USB with no issues.

[@guitarjeff5775]

Great video still having URL issues but I would not have gotten this far without your video thank you

[@IamMrSimQn]

Just bought my usb drive yesterday. Perfect timing

[@chris7760]

Excellent video. I was stuck without the drive letter and you have clearly shown how to solve that. Thanks.

[@MiningOffice]

Good tutorial as always my friend! Im aspiring one day to make content on your level :) keep it up man, your one of my inspirations 😁

[@sandfishhh]

Timing is everything! Today i started building my rig , mobo + cpu + ram installed. Then you release this , as if you KNEW i was going to search for HiveOS guide :). Tomorrow I'll continue with the rig . Thanks !

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

I was thinking of you when I made this video ;) Fate!

[@sandfishhh]

@@TheHobbyistMiner the rig is up and running ! For now only two gpus , learned from your guide and continued with mining chamber guide to finish. Thank you both !

[@chozen_juan]

The world is glitchy like that these days.

[@brewdog8568]

Our man is on it i just order all my parts for a 3070ti build 🙌😎

[@bobmcdonough531]

Just want you to know that you are my go-to man for GPS mining

[@SH-px6zv]

Very Helpfull information.........i saw many video's which are made by indian youtubers...but they didn't show how to download rig.confi file in new hiveos.. again thank you so much tor this sir

[@Jon_Carpenter]

This video is wonderful! Thank you!

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

You are so welcome!

[@alessandromamone5575]

Best tutorial for first set up HiveOS

[@John-100]

Been mining for a 3 years now, i like hiveos, i'll try it.

[@DavidReyes-dl8tn]

Ah there is an updated guide! Ty sir!

[@tarryalmomani8703]

Thanks man was looking for advice on adding a worker to my farm for 3 days.. my rig is finally up and running

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Heck Yeah!

[@teonalapiashvili5175]

thanks for video !!!

[@nFluxMining]

3 days dude....3 DAYS... Have been trying to get 4 up and online.... HiveOS really needs to update the setup instructions in the site. THANK YOU for creating this!!!! 5 more cards online

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Heck yet

[@paladdin1500]

Excellent guide, thank you

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Its been out for 2 minutes. Watched all 15 minutes of it already!? LIES!

[@paladdin1500]

@@TheHobbyistMiner 😅😅. I’m the Flash

[@AnonymousMiner2]

Excellent, saved to share later when people ask

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Thank you for the support!

[@RioFadly]

Nice guide 👍

[@MC...]

Great guideline 🤘🔥

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fabrod6973]

great help, thanks

[@slothsquatch5023]

Thanks that worked.

[@Aaron-fo5pd]

you are the man A+

[@rogersherrell]

Thank you again

[@SEANRMZ]

thanks, I had the old config and loading a new rig and was wondering how.. thanks alot for the info

[@nikolasgreek1633]

nice work thanks

[@chris7760]

Sorted it out in the bios. Works perfectly now

[@Sai-ds1th]

What settings have you changed in the bios?

[@chris7760]

@@Sai-ds1th In the boot menu, i made sure the first device was for my SSD and changed the sys op to other from windows.

[@chris7760]

@blabla bla I also found I had to turn off my antivirus as it was flagging balena etcher and not completing the write to my ssd.

[@Easy-3577]

This is a great video! Thanks! One question: how do you get the video output from your MB for HiveOS? I always get a blue flash on reboot and then a blank screen.

[@chozen_juan]

Every time you said, "go ahead" I drank a shot. Im dead now. thx

[@andrewbeard26]

dude you saved my rig with the ssd part, there's no other people showing how to do this with hive's new setup and my eth rig's been down for 2 days because the flash drive died, I got an ssd, and I couldn't figure out how to do it now for the life of me

[@homemodsgarage3401]

Thank you so much! The new install procedure had me stumped. Because the new installer didn't detect my SSD. It didn't detect anything.

[@acl30]

Thank you

[@MattKasdorf]

How to set up for the first time? Not add to an existing "farm". How to create the initial rig.config file?

[@mostdavestdave69]

I need this. Following old guides that display different screens and options. Was just trying again last night.

[@mdhosenislam9658]

nice

[@winterheat]

so is it true we can buy one of those Samsung T7 or T5, either 500GB or 1TB, and then use it for the drive for HiveOS? That way, it probably is more robust than the USB Flash Drive option...

[@Wisconsinsportsvideo]

When I flash my SSD with Etcher, I dont see a Hive partition in disk management and my SSD is not longer showing up on my File Explorer. Any Suggestions?

[@user-uc4fe4us2d]

Thank you , i have question a boute can me use wifi with my motherbord?

[@miguelangelsanchezgarcia1040]

Hi Hobbyst, I have a problem with HiveOS, I have a rig with a 1660 GPU and another 1660 ti, after a few hours the rig starts mining, it shuts down by itself and stops mining, I can't connect remotely to restart or nothing, I have to plug it in with the power supply and reboot. would you know what it should be? I'm looking for information in forums but I can't find anything, thank you very much faith in advance, keep it up, you inspire me a lot to continue with mining, greetings @The Hobbyist Miner

[@julien3352]

hey Hobbyist, I did everything like you said in the video, in my account it shows that the worker is online but on my display doesn't show any numbers?

[@HIGHSPEEDMINER]

Nice good video

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Thanks

[@jbirdjenkins420]

Do I have to have an ssd in my rig to run hive os or something? Been following an old build video but I can't get hive to install on my rig.

[@preslavpandurski941]

Hello, I would be grateful if you could tell me whether it depends on how clean the flash drive is for writing and reading, because I was writing, but after a few hours of digging, I get an error

[@johnsnyder5009]

Balena etcher can write on a usb . Both my rigs are done on it. With usb

[@westhyphy]

Will the usb way still work if you have a ssd drive connected to the rig computer. Or will that mess up the booting from the USB? Sorry if its dumb but I'm new to all this lol

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Will be fine you just have to boot to the USB Instead of ssd to start mining.

[@naten3990]

My ssd won’t show up and when I flash hiveos to it and use disk management to make it come back into the files the ss is empty

[@Lorax183]

Hey awesome video but I have a question, I do have a rig with a solid state already running windows, Can I hive on a usb drive and use that even while my windows hard drive is still installed? Or what I have to remove my solid state with windows on it from the motherboard 1st?

[@westhyphy]

Have same question

[@Mywhtjp]

No.. HIVE is an OS. Can't run them both at the same time.

[@editzobg]

i have followed your steps, but am trying to mine PYI on Hiveos and can't. besisde putting the hiveos image in my usb and creating a walltet in hiveos for my Pyrin. some of the settings for mining and pools are abit confusing. can you help once i have transfered my hiveos image to my usb? whats the next steps onve I plugged it into my rig? thansk in advance.

[@powerflodiesel5597]

Sorry I am new but what is the number behind the RIG name on HIVEOS? Some of mine are red some are black? Assuming red isn't good, not sure... thanks.

[@horaciocastle1998]

Can you run hiveos in a virtual machine and mining while you work con windows? more detail, windows will use embedded GPU in CPU chip, mining will use 2 GPUs.

[@beachlover9108]

I am mining ethermine pool through hiveos. Does payment of what I get from mining get paid to my wallet I put in hiveos?

[@vicpinto1970]

Does the Hive OS allow you to enable TRIM on the SSD?

[@winterheat]

Also, can we actually install HiveOS to our PC's hard drive? I have a notebook with a 1TB SSD drive with 900GB free, and burned the HiveOS to a USB Flash Drive and it seems to treat this USB Flash Drive as the "hard drive" for HiveOS... can't I install it on my 1TB SSD drive too?

[@SolarResurrection]

New coins like HOOSAT are not appearing in my Hive Os, do people have to upgrade their Hive Os, was about 2 years or more when I created my USB. Also I am in UK perhaps some coins do not appear in UK.

[@DailyMysteryz]

hi, My ssd shows up as "disk 2, 111,79 gb, unallocated" with no option to change letter. It is as hiveos wasnt installed even though I burned the img to the ssd with balena. Its not even named "hive" after burning it. Only the option "new simple volume" when I right click it. After I press new simple volume it's still named just "F" and no hive, cant access it without formatting it. Any thoughts? thx

[@DL_Kwekerij]

Is it possible to run hiveos on my gaming pc, and switch to windows if i want to game? And if im at work switch to hiveos?

[@curmudgeon_OG]

For new miners, but it shows how to add rigs to an existing setup?

[@budyeddi5814]

Couldn't you install to ssd without the adapter via sata (where you uncovered "hidden" system drives)

[@twseng90]

Great video! But I'm stuck after the HIVEOS boot selection screen after I installed my 6th GPU. It shows "error: can't allocate initrd", anyone knows why does this happened?

[@GoWest927]

Trying to run HIVE on my desktop with GPU while not amusing it for designing/gaming it’s not a separate stand alone rig. Is that possible?

[@rayy4720]

i am newbie, dell alienware, 3080ti, black screen after some lines when boot up from usb stick, any suggestion will be appreciated

[@mavricfpv1201]

I followed step by step and when i reboot my laptop just get a black screen i even tried insafe mode and looks like its getting stuck at loading initial ramdisk and just hangs there It a asus tuf fx505dy laptop Could really use some help

[@leonardonava1803]

hello. Can you help me? i have 2 msi motherboard b450 gaming plus max and does not matter what i do it does not start hive os. Even with an ssd. And i have done all the things you did in the video and does not star. Just stay in a black screen and nothing appears

[@LivnlargeCO]

A bit off topic but hopefully you will see this and have time for an answer. I now have about 2 Gh running on Hiveon pool and am unsure which payment method to use. Options are $3/month per rig (currently I have 6 on the pool) so that is $18/month. Currently I am mining about $2,700/month. However, my farm is currently set up for paying the 3% fee (which I can change). If I am doing the math correctly does the 3% pool fee mean 3% of my $2,700? If so...that is a whopping $83.70 per month!! Before I switch over to the 3$/month/rig option can you tell me if I am looking at this correctly? I cannot find anything on the web that has clarified this, so I am reaching out to you. Thank you!

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

I ended up paying per rig

[@LivnlargeCO]

@@TheHobbyistMiner Thank you so very much for your reply! Just so I am clear...the 3% is calculated against your $$ earnings...correct?

[@meditationmotivation8111]

I have no problem flashing hive OS to the ssd but I cannot drag and drop because I have Mac. Please help. The ssd keep getting flashed to ntfs every time I change it

[@seanwood5443]

how do i make a rig.config file tho if u dont hiveos installed on anything yet like i am brand new just starting out and want to start mining

[@FrenzyFinancial]

What if you do this with a usb on the same computer ur using to mine

[@chris7760]

Strange, I followed the instructions to the letter with my SSD and when installed, just shows up as offline, it doesnt connect to the hive os? Any reason for this. Internet connection is fine.

[@robo250]

Is the USB sata to USB adaptor necessary

[@Everythingonearth23]

if u choose ETH for coin instead of Nicehash does that mean im solo mining ?

[@ld3336]

What about the new hiveOS boot installer? Its basically like etcher but from hiveOS

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

I haven't tested it yet. Have you?

[@ld3336]

@@TheHobbyistMiner im working a new build i already got hive flashed using their new flashing tool i just haven’t had a chance to boot up from it but will follow up as soon as i do that. I was just curious if you had use it or not. But using the flashing tool was very easy you dont need a iso file the tool just prompts you to pick a os version then you paste your farm hash and hit flash and that was it.

[@canoeshoe]

my new HIVE drive after flashing only shows RepoVer, Rig config file, and VNC-password txt and 3 folders but missing the rest of the files you had at 9:08

[@wisty0819]

So you don't need windows or anything on your mining rig just hive os?

[@canoeshoe]

You cant update the kernel without reflashing the OS?

[@stevenbanderet8347]

What if my test rig is my actually my gaming rig? Would I need to go into bios and have the motherboard boot with that specific drive?

[@Mywhtjp]

They are both operating systems. Run one or the other build a 2nd pc.

[@Crypto.1904]

For some reason, it won't let me change the password via settings. I was able to update the name but when I do update password, it error out (The given data is invalid) and then it would say "Password succesfully updated". I wanted to be sure that the password did change and sure enough it didn't =(. I checked the rig.conf file through text editor and it still showed the default password given. I checked on the rig.conf settings on the web and it was still the same as the default assigned. Thoughts on this? Thank you!

[@flawlesskrush2145]

Im having the same issue. Ever figure it out?

[@annoynlobster]

How do i get the config file if i haven't made my hiveos drive yet?

[@yoldyblogs766]

I don't understand how you get that start up screen on the miner

[@WesleyDugg]

if you disconnect the drive after flashing and reconnect it, it saves having to map the drive letter IIRC

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Yep. I recommend disconnecting it for 2 mins in the video. If it still doesn't come up, i go through mapping the drive letter.

[@WesleyDugg]

@@TheHobbyistMiner was hoping there was some hidden knowledge or trick I had missed previously and wasn't paying all that much attention (as someone who isn't a beginner anymore) great video though. Its Going to help quite a few new miners get setup

[@GENERALCHAOS13]

my network is KAKA 6hrs trying to get the OS in my Browser it Keeps Saying Missing Flight Sheet i already Made 20 Flight Sheet but None of the 20 are Sticking to the new Config File when put on SSD

[@itzj3rmz334]

How about the GPU drivers? Does HiveOS not need them to work? Thanks!

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

It installs them on its own.

[@officialgamers2986]

when i install hive os in USB drive after i want to copy rig config file in usb disk but now usb disk is not showing at my computer but showing in disk management

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Have to assign a drive letter to it in disk management

[@wiemengtjhai897]

Bro wanna asking now my rig 1 is full now 10 vga, if i wann build new rig n make it to be 1 id, how can i do it sir, i using hiveos, help me answer it, or do you have a video for me sir🙏

[@wiemengtjhai897]

Iam using usb to make a image sir

[@pete6300]

I bought a pny ssd from Walmart and it came with an adapter cable (sata>usb)

[@Way2fast4ya]

Hey all and @thehobbyistminer - I use usb flash drives for my hiveos and some of my rigs keep going offline or disconnecting 1-3x a day sometimes. Should I switch to SSD to usb or SSD to sata 3? Is that why I keep getting drops?

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Yeah. I would swap

[@Way2fast4ya]

@@TheHobbyistMiner switch to the SSD to USB adapter or SSD to SATA 3 normal power/sata cables?

[@winterheat]

I don't quite get it why we have to burn the image once to the SSD Drive and then once again to a USB Flash Drive? Also, I tried using Etcher and it could burn to the USB Flash Drive too... it didn't need Rufus...

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

You don't need both. I am showing how to install to an SSD and than to USB

[@sealifett8395]

Will it be worth it with a 4 GB Rx 580

[@j_ason]

Can I do all of this on a MacBook Air?

[@iCore7Gaming]

How do i get wifi adapter to work? I don't have any ethernet in my house so that is not an option...

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Check my mining guides Playlist. I have a how to setup WiFi in hiveos