Can Freenas run another OS

[Gottria]

Built a new file server and decided to give Freenas a go instead of windows. Got 9.10 up and running without any issues so far, created a few shares and good to go. No one thing I forgot about since this is in the garage it's also my garage PC that I use to stream music from and open service manuals on when I'm working on the cars. Is there a way to run another OS from freenas, like virtually?

 

[pirateghost]

Get a raspberry pi. Load up any pi distro and connect via NFS or CIFS to your FreeNAS.

My preferred audio streamer is runeaudio on my pi.

 

[danb35]

...and yes, you can install VirtualBox in a jail, and run whatever OS you want inside it. But @pirateghost's idea of streaming on a Pi is probably easier and more efficient.

 

[Gottria]

Thanks guys. I like Pirates idea but I stream from pandora and google play music services. I also have several PDF manuals that I need access to while working on cars in the garage. A linux distro should work fine and I'm thinking that would be lighter than installing a windows OS.

 

[pirateghost]

Thanks guys. I like Pirates idea but I stream from pandora and google play music services. I also have several PDF manuals that I need access to while working on cars in the garage. A linux distro should work fine and I'm thinking that would be lighter than installing a windows OS.

Grab a pi with Raspbian on it then. ;)

 

[anodos]

Grab a pi with Raspbian on it then. ;)

Out of curiosity, is it fairly simple to set up a pi to network boot from the freenas server?

 

[pirateghost]

Out of curiosity, is it fairly simple to set up a pi to network boot from the freenas server?

have a look at this project:
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot

When I used it, it had the easiest option for network booting, although I didn't find the network boot a very viable option on the pi 1 when I tried it. It might be worth it on the pi 3, or even the pi 2, but I have moved on to using quality SD Cards for my OS