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Uncle Fester's TrueNAS Beginner's Guide

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Uncle Fester's FreeNAS Beginner's Guide - Guide for basic installation and configuration of FreeNAS

User @UncleFester, some time ago, wrote a thorough beginner's guide for setup of FreeNAS 9.10. It seemed to me like something that belonged on a more permanent, and user-editable, location, so with his permission I wiki-fied the guide and have been hosting it on my server. The guide is at:

https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:intro

Since FreeNAS 11.2 introduced a new default web GUI, I've been working on updating the guide to reflect the...

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I've been working on the 11.2 version of the guide more this morning, and I think I have it pretty well complete--let me know if you spot anything missing (or you can register for an account and update yourself).
 

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Quick question - is there an easy way to print this guide? I tend to like to print out things like this (I know, old school). I could not see anything obvious, but apologizes if I just missed something :smile:
 

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Good question. @UncleFester originally prepared this as a Word document, and I wiki-fied it--I think that adds a lot of capability, but makes it a lot harder to print. I'll see if I can find a way to integrate printing--exporting PDFs of each page should be pretty easy, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to enable downloading a PDF of the whole thing at once.

Edit: Working on it. You can export individual pages to PDF by using the button on the right, but the link at the main page isn't working right now.
 
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Thanks for the update and I saw that option as well. Hopefully there is some aggregating capability. The guide looks great, and thanks again for looking!
 

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I'm just getting a blank page when I click the link; I expect I'm exhausting a memory limit or some such thing. Once I can figure out where the relevant logs are I should be able to get it working.
 

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Hmmm, need to work further on this. The download link now works, and downloads all the pages, but not in the desired order. I have an idea of what to do for that, but will still take more tinkering. As of now, the 11.2 version is a 267-page, 41.7 MB download.
 

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danb35 updated Uncle Fester's TrueNAS Beginner's Guide with a new update entry:

Update for TrueNAS CORE

I hadn't done much with this guide for quite a while, as changes to the UI have been minimal since FreeNAS 11.2. But it's now updated to reflect TrueNAS CORE 13. Let me know if I missed any screen shots of the old UI or other out-of-date information. The new URL for the guide is:

Hat tip to @victort for (1) writing a bunch of scripts for jails, and (2) listing them conveniently in his sig for me to put...

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