Ultimate way to replace running Linux with Hive.
hive-replace
With this script you can replace your running Linux with Hive on the fly. You can run this on any standard Ubuntu, or other competitor mining OS (like e**os, s*os, …). Or this can be used to replace/upgrade system on a running Hive installation.
After successful writing you will reboot with a new system. This is how it looks like.
Before you start
Ideally you should download system image ZIP file and VERSIONS.txt. Then make them available on your local network via HTTP, FTP, NFS, SMB (Windows). Yes, it’s possible to provide image URL from official repository but the download speed will be slow and as it was said it’s better to store it in local network.
If you run this from Hive then current rig.conf will be preserved. In other Linuxes FARM_HASH will be asked.
The best way to run this command is to use direct SSH connection (from other Linux/Mac or with Putty from Windows). ShellInABox should work. OpenVPN connection is also OK. Teleconsole connection will be closed so you will not see the progress.
WARNING: This command can potentially ruin your system installation. So please do some experiments when you are close the rig physically.
Usage Instructions
You need to update Hive form from web to get the latest script version.
If you are running other Linux then the script should be downloaded form Git repository.
cd /tmp
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minershive/hiveos-linux/master/hive/sbin/hive-replace
chmod +x hive-replace
Here are the general usage instructions
Usage: hive-replace [option] <Path or URL to ZIP file with Hive OS image>
Options:
-y|--yes Do not ask for confirmation, answer yes to all questions
-f|--force Forced replace. Do not check the checksum of ZIP archive. Use with caution!
--nfs To use NFS Shared resource. e.g.: IP_NFS_server:/shared_dir/hive_zip
--smb To use Windows Shared resource. e.g.: //IP_Windows_comp/shared_folder/hive_zip
--smbuser=Windows user UserName for Windows Shared resource. Do not set this option for guest/anonymous access
--smbpass=Windows password Password for Windows Shared resource. Do not set this option for guest/anonymous access
--hash=FARM_HASH FARM_HASH from Web-interface
-h|--help Show this message
Examples
Get image via HTTP
hive-replace http://192.168.0.100/[email protected]
Use locally downloaded file (though this has little sense it’s possible)
hive-replace /tmp/[email protected]
NFS network share
hive-replace -y -f --hash=46e9602837d0bda99f0 --nfs 192.168.0.100:/home/john/hive/[email protected]
Windows SMB share
hive-replace -y -f --hash=46e9602837d0bda99f0 --smb --smbuser=winuser --smbpass=secret //192.168.0.100/shared_folder/[email protected]
to see if there was any stability/hash improvement with newer drivers (20.30) and used the replace command to update the version.