Hi All,
First of all sorry if I'm asking stupid questions here. Very new to networking, freenas and even forums! Anyway, i recently bought a tablet and have little use for my old desktop. I was planning on buying a nas box until i came across freenas.
Anyway, few months ago I had a power cut which killed my mother boards usb ports (via a powered usb hub). I got around the problem with a pci usb card. More recently, I successfully manage to burn the freenas iso to dvd and install onto my 4GB usb stick as recommended.
The problem i now have is that my bios wont find the usb via the usb pci card (nb all my motherboard usb are dead). So i have 2 questions:
1) If the pci card is being booted up after the bios, how was i able to install freenas to usb?
2) If i can not boot from usb, what's the best method to install freenas considering i have 4sata ports with 4hdds at 1Tb, 1Tb, 2Tb and 2Tb?
Any help greatly appreciated....
First of all sorry if I'm asking stupid questions here. Very new to networking, freenas and even forums! Anyway, i recently bought a tablet and have little use for my old desktop. I was planning on buying a nas box until i came across freenas.
Anyway, few months ago I had a power cut which killed my mother boards usb ports (via a powered usb hub). I got around the problem with a pci usb card. More recently, I successfully manage to burn the freenas iso to dvd and install onto my 4GB usb stick as recommended.
The problem i now have is that my bios wont find the usb via the usb pci card (nb all my motherboard usb are dead). So i have 2 questions:
1) If the pci card is being booted up after the bios, how was i able to install freenas to usb?
2) If i can not boot from usb, what's the best method to install freenas considering i have 4sata ports with 4hdds at 1Tb, 1Tb, 2Tb and 2Tb?
Any help greatly appreciated....