hiro5id
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I have been booting from USB since the days of v8.x
I would like to make a new USB. But it seems the procedure has changed since then, and i'm a bit lost.
I used to just download the ISO, and create a USB bootable form that ISO and away I went.
Now it seems it's not that straight forward as there is an installation step. Is there documentation about how to create a FreeNAS bootable USB stick ? I looked around I am either too dumb to find the solution or it is hidden some place that i haven't seen yet.
Let me ask another way. Is there any reason I couldn't boot the FreeNas installer ISO using Virtualbox, and then attach a USB stick to the virtualbox onto which I would install FreeNAS? And then I can plug that into my server and boot from that ? (I understand of course that I would need to restore configuration after bootup) Would that work?
I would like to make a new USB. But it seems the procedure has changed since then, and i'm a bit lost.
I used to just download the ISO, and create a USB bootable form that ISO and away I went.
Now it seems it's not that straight forward as there is an installation step. Is there documentation about how to create a FreeNAS bootable USB stick ? I looked around I am either too dumb to find the solution or it is hidden some place that i haven't seen yet.
Let me ask another way. Is there any reason I couldn't boot the FreeNas installer ISO using Virtualbox, and then attach a USB stick to the virtualbox onto which I would install FreeNAS? And then I can plug that into my server and boot from that ? (I understand of course that I would need to restore configuration after bootup) Would that work?