Discs in Raid, change OS?

[Cirius153]

Hi there,

I'm a very new Freenas user and thought I could pick it up but I'm in over my head.

I've got 4 2TB seagates in Raid configuration. Had a USB boot crash on me and want to run a simpler OS (windows likely) that I'm used to using.

Can windows recognize drives setup in Raid? Or what do I need to do for this to work?

Pls help! Don't want to lose all my data screwing around.

Thank you

 

[danb35]

If you're having particular problems, we can probably help if you go through them individually. But if you've already decided for whatever reason that FreeNAS just isn't for you, that's understandable--it just doesn't fit all users' needs.

Assuming you're using a recent version of FreeNAS (9.3 or later), you're using ZFS for your RAID array. Windows is the only major OS that has no support at all for ZFS, so you wouldn't be able to just hook your drives up to a Windows machine and see your data. You'd need to bring them up on something that does support ZFS (and a FreeNAS installation is probably the simplest thing), and then copy your data over the network to your Windows (or whatever) machine.

 

[joeschmuck]

If you made a backup of your configuration file, you can simply reinstall FreeNAS to a new USB flash drive and then restore your configuration file. If you didn't save your configuration file, you can still import your pool and get to your data quickly enough. Your system will be back online in no time. Just use the Users Guide to help you out. As @danb35 said, FreeNAS is not for everyone but it really is one of the easiest NAS solutions out there. I'd hate to build a proper Windows server, learning Active Directory would kill me.

 

[Bidule0hm]

I'd hate to build a proper Windows server, learning Active Directory would kill me.

Having to reboot the server every week because it's not stable enough too...

 

[Cirius153]

Thanks for the replies guys. I had already done as you suggested with making a new USB and accessing the pools. Took a little bit of digging but i got it all figured out again. Problem now is that when i try to access the webGUI i get "Unhandled Exception" . The new USB drive is a brand new Kingston DTR3.0 G2 16GB. I really just wanted to be able to stream my media via plex and have all my dloading autmoated. (which i had on my PC prior to getting the NAS).

Any help is much appreciated!

 

[joeschmuck]

Could you please tell us a little more about your configuration such as which version of FreeNAS you are using and the computer specs (CPU/RAM/Hard Drives)? Also on the computer you are trying to use the GUI on, which web browser are you using?

To be honest, FreeNAS is fairly easy to build and operate although this is coming from someone who has been doing computer stuff since the 1970's. Setting up Plex isn't difficult either and I really like it when I stream a movie at home.

 

[Cirius153]

I guess i just need a bit of guidance is all.
I just did a fresh re-install of 9.3STABLE. finished loading up my pool. Is there a shell command to tell you my hardware? I dont know it off hand

edit:

when i got to install plugins, this is what shows up:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://192.168.0.12/plugins/plugin/home/?dojo.preventCache=1465166067857
Software Version: FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201504152200
Exception Type: IndexError
Exception Value:
list index out of range
Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py in __getitem__, line 132
Server time: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:34:16 -0700
Traceback

Request information
GET
Variable Value
dojo.preventCache u'1465166067857'
POST
No POST data

FILES
No FILES data

COOKIES
Variable Value
fntreeSaveStateCookie 'root%2Croot%2F119%2F129%2Croot%2F178%2Croot%2F50%2F51%2Croot%2F50%2F103%2Croot%2F1%2Croot%2F1%2F5%2Croot%2F1%2F2%2Croot%2F188%2Croot%2F52%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2F54%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2F54%2F91%2Croot%2F206'
csrftoken 'dp1NB3Sl168Z0OLu7tQG4OZaiTM8JNb7'
sessionid 'w1z1cfdccmnnj4b8vo1p3u7zp65lqc4s'
META
Variable Value
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'gzip, deflate, sdch'
CSRF_COOKIE u'dp1NB3Sl168Z0OLu7tQG4OZaiTM8JNb7'
CONTENT_TYPE 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 'en-US,en;q=0.8'
wsgi.run_once False
wsgi.multiprocess False
wsgi.errors <flup.server.fcgi_base.TeeOutputStream object at 0x811fa9110>
wsgi.version (1, 0)
GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1'
wsgi.input <flup.server.fcgi_base.InputStream object at 0x81478dc50>
REMOTE_PORT '49632'
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
REQUEST_URI '/plugins/plugin/home/?dojo.preventCache=1465166067857'
HTTP_HOST '192.168.0.12'
wsgi.multithread True
HTTPS ''
DOCUMENT_URI '/plugins/plugin/home/'
HTTP_ACCEPT '*/*'
HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH 'XMLHttpRequest'
DOCUMENT_ROOT '/usr/local/etc/nginx/html'
SERVER_ADDR '192.168.0.12'
SERVER_PORT '80'
wsgi.url_scheme 'http'
HTTP_CONNECTION 'keep-alive'
REMOTE_ADDR '192.168.0.17'
SERVER_NAME 'localhost'
CONTENT_LENGTH ''
HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36'
HTTP_COOKIE 'sessionid=w1z1cfdccmnnj4b8vo1p3u7zp65lqc4s; csrftoken=dp1NB3Sl168Z0OLu7tQG4OZaiTM8JNb7; fntreeSaveStateCookie=root%2Croot%2F119%2F129%2Croot%2F178%2Croot%2F50%2F51%2Croot%2F50%2F103%2Croot%2F1%2Croot%2F1%2F5%2Croot%2F1%2F2%2Croot%2F188%2Croot%2F52%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2F54%2Croot%2F52%2F53%2F54%2F91%2Croot%2F206'
QUERY_STRING 'dojo.preventCache=1465166067857'
PATH_INFO u'/plugins/plugin/home/'
SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.1'
REQUEST_METHOD 'GET'
SERVER_SOFTWARE 'nginx/1.6.2'
SCRIPT_NAME u''
REDIRECT_STATUS '200'
HTTP_REFERER 'http://192.168.0.12/'

 

[Mirfster]

In the Web GUI under [Network] - [Global Configuration]; have you configured the "IPv4 Default Gateway" and "Nameserver 1"? Is FreeNas able to access the internet (like check for updates at least)?

BTW any particular reason you are running 9.3 instead of 9.10 (* 9.10 is the newer stable version)?

 

[gpsguy]

You can get some basic information from here: http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_system.html#information

We prefer additional information, make/model of your server, etc. If a white box, then the brand of motherboard, model, etc.

If I go to Napa looking for parts for my truck, I have to give them specifics. It's a 1990 Toyota pickup Xtra-cab Deluxe, 2 wheel drive, 5 speed, with a v6 engine.

Is there a shell command to tell you my hardware? '

 

[joeschmuck]

when i got to install plugins, this is what shows up:

I thought you couldn't even get the GUI working at all. Please be clear in what you can and cannot do and you should be able to provide some data on your computer hosting FreeNAS and what web browser you are using.