I wanted to try out FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD but with quite a few awesome ‘NAS-like’ features) on a system at a jobsite:
\nSystem has 5x 2TB drives in RAID5 (6.7TB usable for storage) hotswappable, 2.5GHz Dual Core Pentium, 4GB DDR2 1066 RAM, 3x 10\/100\/100 NIC, FreeNAS .7 stable.<\/p>\n
I got everything up and running without a problem (it is quite easy), running it off a 1GB USB Flash drive I had lying around. But I wanted to continue using my flash drive for other things and found an unused 128MB flash drive that no one would ever use again. I’d rather waste 128MB than 1024MB…<\/p>\n
Mount CDROM. Argh. So I checked the flash drive on the main PC again – FreeNAS had written a config file and folder to the device!<\/p>\n It looks like if you boot up the system with a USB flash drive installed, the config file will always be written and you can’t format the device. So just plug the drive in AFTER everything is booted up.<\/p>\n Mount CDROM. So I did just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wanted to try out FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD but with quite a few awesome ‘NAS-like’ features) on a system at a jobsite: System has 5x 2TB drives in RAID5 (6.7TB usable for storage) hotswappable, 2.5GHz Dual Core Pentium, 4GB DDR2 1066 RAM, 3x 10\/100\/100 NIC, FreeNAS .7 stable. I got everything up and running … Continue reading Issue Copying Startup Files To USB Flash FreeNAS<\/span> Formated the 128MB into FAT<\/code>
\nPlugged the 128MB flash into the FreeNAS server while it was off<\/code>
\nBooted the FreeNAS server using the FreeNAS .7 CD<\/code>
\nPressed 9 to install embedded onto the flash drive<\/code><\/p>\n
\nInstalling system image on device da0.
\ngzip: stdout: broken pipe
\nError: Failed to dd image on ‘\/dev\/da0’!
\nUnmount CDROM.
\nThere was a problem while copying files.
\nPress ENTER to continue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWiped 128MB again and formatted FAT<\/code>
\nPlugged 128MB into FreeNAS - Auto mounted the device as da0<\/code>
\nTry 9, 1 again<\/code><\/p>\n
\nInstalling system image on device da0.
\nGEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid\/************.
\nUnmount CDROM.
\nFreeNAS has been installed on da0.
\nYou can now remove the CDROM and reboot the PC.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n