Freenas on SSD

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Kasun

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Just wondering if anyone here has installed FreeNAS on an SSD. I know its meant to be on a USB pen drive. But I have a spare 64GB SSD that I can install FreeNAS on and id like to install may be other stuff too. I used dd to copy the image to the SSD but it just wouldn't boot. Gets a blank screen. Anyone with any ideas ? Theres no cd rom drive on the server. Just few USB slots. So what I did was to boot using a live linux disc and use the following command to copy to the SSD.
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xzcat FreeNAS-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64k (sdb1 being the ssd)
 

pirateghost

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You do realize that your 64gb will be wasted right? You won't be able to install other things on it.

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Kasun

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Yeah I realize that after reading the documentation. But out of curiosity how would you do it ?
 

survive

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Hi Kasun,

If there is absolutely noting else you can do with the drive (the only other option is to put it in a static bag on a shelf sort of thing) you can pop the drive into a box with a optical drive and simply install from the .iso image. When the install is finished shut the box down & install it in your filer.

-Will
 
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