9.3 directly on USB without installer

[seibax]

Hi,

i used 9.2.x fine all days on my Kingston USB Stick, i tried to upgrade 9.3 but it didnt work out...

how can I install / write an image to my USB stick to use all my HDDs as storage and not to lose one HDD as installed HDD??

Is this possible with 9.3 ?

Thanks in advance,

greetings seibaX

 

[dlavigne]

Nope, 9.3 needs to do an install so it can format the boot device(s) with ZFS. You can however point the installer to a USB stick that meets the 9.3 hardware requirements. See doc.freenas.org/9.3 for details.

 

[seibax]

i've got 3x2 TB and 500 GB HDD, when i install on 500 GB hdd, can i use the 499 rest GB for storage???

 

[dlavigne]

You can install the OS on the 500GB hard drive, but it will only hold the OS and its boot environments. In other words, it won't be available for storage.

 

[seibax]

ok thank you very much for info, i am installing now from a 2nd stick to my Kingston Rubber DT 16GB stick, we will see what will happen... btw: upgrading was a big big mess,....
i hope my zfs sets will import correctly and i must reconfigure the jails again..will keep updated, thanks

 

[danb35]

If you saved your config from 9.2, you won't need to reconfigure anything--just upload the saved config file to the 9.3 web GUI.