New to truenas and I can't seem to get web user interface working

[Starry03]

I can't seem to get the truenas core to work for web interface. my old pc specs are
z97g45 gaming

Specification Z97-G45 GAMING

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intel core i7-4790 cpu @3.60ghz
ram 32gb ram
lan card:killer e2200 gigabit ethernet 100m link speed

 

[Samuel Tai]

lan card:killer e2200 gigabit ethernet 100m link speed

These use an Atheros chip that has miserable driver support. It's no wonder you can't get this to work. The whole Killer NIC moniker was marketing BS.

Your motherboard is also very inapt for TrueNAS. You're building a server, not a gaming PC, and the design criteria are much different. A gaming PC is all about performance. A server is all about reliability, and standard features of your motherboard will need to be disabled to achieve reliability.

• Disable all overclocking
• Disable XMP RAM profiles, and only run RAM at stock timings
• Disable extraneous peripherals, like sound
• Disable WiFi
• Disable all Realtek and Atheros network interfaces

 

[Samuel Tai]

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[NickF]

I can't seem to get the truenas core to work for web interface. my old pc specs are
z97g45 gaming

Specification Z97-G45 GAMING

As a world leading gaming brand, MSI is the most trusted name in gaming and eSports. We stand by our principles of breakthroughs in design, and roll out the amazing gaming gear like motherboards, graphics cards, laptops and desktops.

www.msi.com

intel core i7-4790 cpu @3.60ghz
ram 32gb ram
lan card:killer e2200 gigabit ethernet 100m link speed

What are you plugged into? Can you ping the TrueNAS from your PC?
@Samuel Tai isn't wrong, but it should work albeit poorly. If you running it off a 100mb switch, though, it shouldn't matter much.

Can you draw a diagram of how everything is connected?

 

[Starry03]

the old gaming pc is connected to lan4 tplink router and tplink router wan is connected to telus modem lan1. My download speed is 150 mbps and 40mbps upload speed and I have ping my ip address for that old gaming pc for truenas and it didn't work at all. I have disabled all of the above so far and unfortunately it didn't work.

 

[Samuel Tai]

I left out that you should get a cheap Intel PRO/1000 PCI-E NIC from eBay, instead of your onboard Realtek/Atheros NIC.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

The whole Killer NIC moniker was marketing BS.

Not really, it did kill his networking.

@Starry03 : @Samuel Tai is right, a gaming system is not going to handle high-end NAS software well, no more than a server-room machine with no graphics card is going to work for gaming.

 

[NickF]

I’m not sure what data your router actually shows you, so without additional clues we may be stuck here. Can you see the ports on the router and whether or not they are active? Does it tell you if a device is connected, maybe a MAC address?

 

[Starry03]

update I've managed to the network access to work and I basically disable the lan controller and renabled lan controller and it finally work. Now I ran into some issues. It doesn't show ada0 and type the command on the shell gpart destroy -F /dev/ada0 and the result shows device busy. One hard drive able to detect which is ada1 not ada0

 

[artlessknave]

It doesn't show ada0

unless you have something interesting setup, ada0 would likely be your boot drive. do NOT touch your boot drive.
gpart destroy -F /dev/ada0 unless I am very mistaken, this is literally the command to destroy your boot drive. it's kind of busy.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

update I've managed to the network access to work and I basically disable the lan controller and renabled lan controller and it finally work. Now I ran into some issues. It doesn't show ada0 and type the command on the shell gpart destroy -F /dev/ada0 and the result shows device busy. One hard drive able to detect which is ada1 not ada0

Maybe consider investigating and fixing one problem before you create another.

TrueNAS isn't a racecar, it's a semi for data; take your time and understand how things work before you drive you and your data off a cliff.

 

[Starry03]

I would have to redo the truenas for two hard drives. I know doing partition will not work for UI and what command prompt would I need to just to do my partition on the command prompt before I redo the truenas since I would like to create at least 4 drives. My first hard drive has 932 G and the 2nd hard has 699G. Or would I need to buy at least three hard drives.

 

[artlessknave]

the boot drive is, will be, and can be, the only thing on that drive. TrueNAS doesn't store data on the boot drive. there is no command to do this. please do not try. trying to do so leads many people astray.

you need a minimum of 2 drives. 1 boot drive, 1 data drive.
the boot drive is best as a small SSD. I use the kingston a400 120gb. plenty.

TrueNAS will use the whole data drive for data. there is no partitioning needed.

 

[danb35]

what command prompt would I need to just to do my partition on the command prompt before I redo the truenas

If you have to ask, don't. Just don't.

 

[artlessknave]

If you have to ask, don't. Just don't.

that seems far too broad. most of what I know I had to ask or lookup....