I do not want to send/receive emails via FreeNAS so I left that info blank. No shares created, I will do that manually later.I cleared any filled in the text in Directory Service Selection and clicked Next as I do not use Active Directory, LDAP or NIS.I use Raid Z1 – which I believe is what I want and that is everything rouned, some redundancy, normal space and normal performance.Navigate to the System > Tunables and Click Add Tunable.Login as root user via password you specified during the installation. Check your router to see it’s IP, then just enter it in your browser. Open FreeNAS Web-Interface in your browser.No matter which method you have used, you still need to fix the error, so here is how that is done: You can use the configuration wizard or exit it out, all options are available in other tabs anyway. Web access is now working, so check your router and locate what IP is used, then use the browser to connect and configure your FreeNAS. Now again, once booted, you will have the same issue, with the error, but do not worry. Then the install is done and it is time now for a reboot. Selected to use them, Fresh Install, Format, set password and to Boot via BIOS. Once installation USB is booted selected the first option for Install/Upgrade, then I have checked my both 16GB USB drives and hit OK. You will see a note during the installation that it is even preferred to do so. As I have mentioned at the beginning, I have three USB drives in total, well one is used to boot the installation and for what are the other two you might ask? They will hold the actual FreeNAS operating system, yes, this means I am not going to install it to HDD, but to USB drives which will mirror each other, so in case one dies, I can simply plug in the other and it will copy it’s content to the other one. Then just click F10 to continue and install the FreeNAS according to your preferences. Sorry for bad image quality, but this is not a VirtualBox of which I can take a good quality screenshot: Insert bootable USB and select it for booting, when the GNU GRUB shows up, click e to edit the configuration and add this: Is just to edit grub, which requires adding one line, that is it. I have not tried that and not going too, seems to be just a waste of time when things can be done simpler.ģ. This is how I did it during my first install, monitor still showed issues, but the system it self-booted just fine and was accessible via the browser.Ģ. Use another computer to install the FreeNAS to your storage, yes, install the Operating System using your desktop or laptop computer and then move the storage to the server. This error will prevent you from continuing the installation. Now if you try to install FreeNAS as it is, you will end up with error: This server has a RAID controller, but we are instaling a FreeNAS which has its own raid software (yes… Hardware Raid vs Software Raid), yet according to FreeNAS community it is better to not configure hardware RAID so that FreeNAS could communicate directly with your hard drives and not via your Hardware Raid, I did use software raid during my first FreeNAS install (this is the second one) on this server, so I am going to do this again, leave a link to a post if you want to read more about this dilemma. Crappy Atom processor, but it should be fine and the system starts ok.This article is more like a note for my self on how to install FreeNAS on this server, because if you own it or Googled already, then you should know that it needs some extra work, not much and it does work, but few extra steps are needed.ĨGB USB and Windows OS to make a bootable USBįirst part is easy, you just throw RAM, HDD into the server, create bootable USB via Rufus or any other tool, then just boot it up. The system I'm running on is an old ASUS EEE Box, B202. I was hoping to format the HDD later on and use it for storage, but at the moment I can't do anything with the FreeNAS. Not that it should be working, since I'm running from the USB drive. I don't know if it's important or even relevant, but on the HDD itself is a working Ubuntu install with Amahi. One thing I noticed was that there was no option for how much storage should be dedicated to settings storage (compare to the setting in Universal USB Installer). However, there is no write protect slide on my drive, and the format and use of Win32DiskImager worked fine. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the drive was read-only. No changes are saved and I can't add any drive or even change the admin password. I want to see if the stuff is right for me.Īnyway, I can access the web GUI and have fiddled around with it abit. Just started my first FreeNAS, using a USB thumb drive.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |