kadlma/nhos

NiceHash OS

NiceHash OS is a minimal standalone Linux operating system containing everything you need to start mining crypto-currency efficiently.

Quick setup guide

Below is a list of steps get NHOS up and running.

• Download NiceHash OS image from our website.
• Flash downloaded NiceHash OS image to the USB flash drive.
• Update NiceHash OS configuration file with your data.
  
  

Detailed setup guide

Prerequisites

There are no special prerequisites required to start using NiceHash OS.

Concepts

NiceHash OS is an operating system which loads from USB flash drive and runs from computer memory. It contains all the tools and drivers needed to bring your mining machine to life.

NiceHash OS flash drive is divided into two partitions, SYSTEM and NHOS. SYSTEM partition contains bootloader, Linux kernel and RAM file system, while NHOS partition contains NiceHash OS configuration file.

Creating NiceHash OS flash drive

There are two steps required to create a fully functional NiceHash OS flash drive

1. Create a USB flash drive containing an operating system. Detailed instructions are available on How to create NiceHash OS flash drive page.
2. Update NiceHash OS configuration file with your data. Detailed instructions are available on How to configure NiceHash OS page.

Note
This is a guide on how to prepare one NiceHash OS flash drive. If you plan to use the same setup on multiple machines then you can do the following. Go through the steps mentioned above for each NiceHash OS flash drives you need. After this, you will have multiple NiceHash OS flash drives which contain a invalid (empty) configuration. Now use valid configuration from your initial NiceHash OS flash drive and copy it to all newly created NiceHash OS drives.

Finish

At this point you should have everything prepared to start using NiceHash OS. All you need to do now is to plug in NiceHash OS flash drive in to your mining machine and turn it on!

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Information on how to access mining machine locally is available on NiceHash OS local access page.

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Information on how to report bugs is available on NiceHash OS bug reporting page.

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Information on how to customize fan control table is available on NiceHash OS fan control page.

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Information on how to persist miner log files to USB flash drive is available on NiceHash OS log persist page.

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Advanced users who want to squeeze the last atom of power out of their graphics cards cant experiment with graphics cards overclocking. Beware that sometimes graphics cards overclocking can have a negative impact on system stability. Information on how this is done for NiceHash Miner is available on Manual OC settings page.