Using FreeNAS

gam3r

gam3r

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I got a spare PC lyring around with these specs:

Intel Celeron 800MHz
256MB ram
CD Drive
4Mb onboard video
80GB IDE hard disk

I was thinking. Initially i was looking to buy a NAS drive to to hold files on the network but as you probably already know they do not come cheap, so i decided i might give FreeNAS a shot using just the 80GB for Data/OS for now.

I got a couple of questions:

Would you recommend FreeNas, or any other distro? Freenas looks easy to use, and this pc will not have a VDU.

Also, it will be connected to the wireless router via cat5 cable but the computers connected to this router are all via wireless. Would this result in slow file transfer speeds? or would it be for instance sufficient to stream divx files?

Thanks
 
Ok i decided to try it out anyway.

I burned the ISO using nero and put it into PC to install FreeNAS to the HD.

It loads up and then after it detects the HD it says

fstab : /fstab/bin etc...no such file or directory.

It stays like that for bout 15 seconds and then it goes onto the main menu. I choose option 7 for install and then pick the source CD drive and the destination HD.

This is where i get an error:

meet a problem for mounting the CDROM

I tried a couple of things. I tried swapping the IDE cable with another one but that didn't work, same error. I tried to burn another CD thinking that cd might be badly burned but that didn't work either. I tried to change the IDE port on the mother as well but that did nothing either. I tried looked in the bios and disabled uneccesary things but no go.

I looked on the forum for FreeNAS and only one other person has come across this and they never managed to solve it.

This is where i am stuck...:(
 
Have you tried a different CDROM? Could be some dodgy incopmatibilty with firmware in that specific CDROM drive?
 
Unfortuantly thats the only spare cd rom i got lying about.

Is it possible to plug the HD into my main pc and then install freenas onto it without affecting my windows installation on the other drive?
 
If you are going to try to install using your main machine, just unplug your windows drive to help paranoia. ;)

Or grab a screwdriver and borrow your CD drive for the install.
 
I've never had a problem installing FreeNAS - I was using a P133 with 64MB EDO RAM too :D.

However, I did discover alternatives like Openfiler which is good.
 
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