Comments on: Goodbye FreeNAS, Hello Ubuntu Server

By: FreeNAS | stinner dot com WP backup

FreeNAS | stinner dot com WP backup — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:46:23 +0000

[...] it is close enough to Linux that I don’t have too much to learn. If I wind up running into any issues, I’ll probably skip OpenFiler and just install Ubuntu Server Edition. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Can’t remember that far back, but at the time, I dowloaded an iso image for FreeNas and burnt it to disk. Not sure what you mean regarding packages or source, although it may have changed since I tried it.

By: Ian Vaughan

Ian Vaughan — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:33:00 +0000

Did you find packages (or source) for all required components that come shipped with FreeNAS?

By: PAY75

PAY75 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:32:00 +0000

I tried for 3 days to get FreeNAS working on my old PC but it wouldn’t recognise eth0. I gave Ubuntu a try and it connected immediately. I still like the idea of FreeNAS so may look to run it from USB

By: Mr. Miyagui

Mr. Miyagui — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:15:00 +0000

For freeNAS, what i did was to dd my old 2gb usb key with ubuntu. There’s a good guide to format it to FAT16. Just make sure you download the embedded img and voilá. Don’t forget to make sure where your usb key is mounted in the link’s example he’s using “sdi”, in my case i had to use “sda” or “sdb” on some cases. The only problem after this quick installation is that your network card couldn’t be supported (Had some trouble with a Realtek RTL8111E chipset but ended up fixing it by just googling for it.

http://solori.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/installing-freenas-to-usb-flash-easy-as-123/

By: tom dot com

tom dot com — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:27:00 +0000

Yes, me too. I have two notebooks, one has been installed FreeNas. When I want to install another cheaper one which has no CD. I tried many many methods that I finally only install Freenas.img. However, it always prompts me “mount system root failure”. During my experience on installing FreeNas, it doesn’t support (maybe my limiting knowledge) installation via pxe, grub2, or unetbootin….. Wasting time.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:45:28 +0000

Yeah the web access is awesome in FreeNAS. I may be chucking my old AMD Athlon64 3500+ into my server case, so might give it a try again at some point. I'm still running Ubuntu, very smoothly too. It's handy as I also run Mercurial and Git from it, as well as a TeamSpeak server. Got around 2.5TB in it now, might add another 1TB and run two drives in RAID 1.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:32:18 +0000

I loaded freenas on to a small 40 gb HD and have 2 140 gb HD for storage. It ran great, reboot it wont come up, reinstall works great, reboot won't install. Moved drives around on the mother board, replaced drives with others. Still could not get it to run. After a few days we looked at the power supply and it was to small to run the three drives. replaced the PS set up a raid 1 with an external back up and its been running non-stop for over a year.

I really like the web access to the server and I have it emails me weekly with a server report.

By: FreeNAS « stinner dot com

FreeNAS « stinner dot com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:35:35 +0000

[...] it is close enough to Linux that I don’t have too much to learn. If I wind up running into any issues, I’ll probably skip OpenFiler and just install Ubuntu Server [...]

By: Jannik

Jannik — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:01:41 +0000

Same probleme here ,can’t change the folder permissions in Freenas . I gave up after 20 hour (including all the other problems) When I think of it , a nas server is a bit of a joke if its build on a PC . I have never had problems when I have my ubuntu or linux mint doing the same and much more . Boot time in more or less the same . You gain nothing ! only a BIG HEADACHE.

HEADACHE .