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07-23-2006, 10:49 AM | #1 | |
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FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
I have successfully completed this, and it is up and working. I completed it using these steps.
Things you NEED or Need to Download: USB Key, I would say at LEAST 64MB(I used a 64MB, and FreeNAS is approx 33MB) FreeNAS ISO, or the VM for Vmware, can be done either way. FreeSBIE a FreeBSD based LiveCD You will have to hook the Snap Appliance 4500 up to a keyboard and monitor also. Go into the BIOS on the box and enable boot from USB Floppy and USB CD. Also this will help to use the Console to set the IP and stuff up for FreeNAS using it's Console menu system. I needed the LiveCD to be able to mount the USB key after I loaded FreeNAS to it, to make the loader.conf changes that IWDeek mentioned for FreeBSD 6.1 Quote:
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07-23-2006, 04:15 PM | #2 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
Now if the FreeNAS would just get out of Alpha.......
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07-23-2006, 04:18 PM | #3 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
My Address is:
Sam Reed .... :P I want one
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08-05-2006, 08:21 PM | #4 | |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
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Jilaman, im a noob at this but how did you mount, edit and save thoes lines to the USB thumb drive conf file? |
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08-05-2006, 08:54 PM | #5 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
I downloaded the demo version. Reading through the doc. It has no provision for setting access rights. Everybody has RW. Want work for my project.
FreeNAS is suppose to add all of the users and group control in the nexe release. It may be about time to start looking for a Raidcore BC 4852 8 port SATA controller (hardware based).
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08-06-2006, 06:48 PM | #6 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
I booted up the Freesbie Live CD. The XFCE desktop opened a terminal window. Then I inserted the USB key, it detects it usually as /dev/da0 so I did a
mount /dev/da0 /mnt/ufs.2 then change into the boot/conf directory and type nano loader.conf and typed in the changes at the end of the file. control + x to get out of nano and then answer Y to save the file. and then cd / umount /mnt/ufs.2 and take out the USB key. |
04-13-2007, 09:10 PM | #7 | |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
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I downloaded an .IMG and an .ISO file (FreeNAS-generic-pc-0.684b.img and FreeNAS-0.684b.iso) from here. But how do I "burn" those to the USB key to boot from it after that? |
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04-14-2007, 02:57 AM | #8 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
I think you put the memory stick in a pc with a cd of the FreeNas Software, boot from the cd and tell it to install to usb key
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04-14-2007, 08:24 AM | #9 | |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
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04-14-2007, 01:41 PM | #10 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
He used a usb CD drive, and a installed FreeNAS from the CD to the USB drive. Has the boot order usb, HD in bios.
stfn, Why are you wanting to run FreeNAS on a 4500. Yes it's a standard 1U computer, but what a waste. At least for now. I will be a good option later on, when adaptec goes out business, after pissing all of the customer off. Do something useful, figure out how to install FreeNAS on a 4000, 4100.
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04-16-2007, 11:00 AM | #12 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
You will not beable to recover your data without a recovery service. Raid 0 has no redundency. With 1 drive down you have lost 1/4 of your HD space. No parity data avaliable to rebuild the array.
You can transfer your os to new hd's if you like. And setup a RAID 5 array, which does have redundency.
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12-28-2008, 02:25 AM | #13 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
I am continuing a discussion from another thread right where I left off.
I have: - retrieved a 2 gig USB stick - downloaded FreeNAS ISO and applied image data to stick - downloaded, burned and booted FreeSBIE - mounted USB stick and edited loader.conf with above parameters - double checked that USB floppy and USB CD-ROM boot options are enabled in 4500 BIOS - inserted USB stick and attempted to boot I get: "Failure to boot on all devices System hang !" Thoughts? |
12-29-2008, 12:14 AM | #14 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
Is there a way to complete (or begin, for that matter) the install via PXE or virtual appliance? I've never used an appliance before to know how it works.
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12-29-2008, 09:44 PM | #15 | ||
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
Ok, in an attempt to get something (anything) up and running, I attempted the same things I had been with FreeNAS with Openfiler. This is part of the discussion I've been having on the Openfiler forum:
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12-30-2008, 07:51 AM | #16 |
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Re: FreeNAS on Snap 4500 (Working!)
Did you disable the watchdog in the bios. This is a failsafe to find a bootable HD.
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