Hi, I have installed FreeNAS 8. (I am a total FN Noob and all my exp is in Windows)
I plugged the USB pen in a brand new HP MicroServer (no monitor/input devices) waited a min or two then connected to the web gui and it was all running. Very impressive!
Everything I have set-up is working fine, 3 drives (no redundancy) shared (UFS) to my Windows 7 machines. At this point I'm thinking this is all excellent!
That's about 70% of what I want to do. I foolishly did not read the comparison chart and I now found out that I can't stream to my XBOX360 or run as an iTunes server.
So, looking through the forums I see many are sticking with version 7. I would like to change to something with support for the above, but without losing all the files on these UFS drives?
Options appear to be:
Downgrade to FreeNas 7
Switch to Nas4Free (This seems to be a supported version of 7 on a newer version of FreeBSD?)
Try FreeNAS beta 8.2 (Does a firmware upgrade take me to this or do I specify the ISO?)
As I said I am a noob and have no experience with FreeBSD I do not know how to get myself out of this situation.
Can I switch to any of these options without losing all my current data? The Beta scares me as I do not want to mess about too often!
Any hints/help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I plugged the USB pen in a brand new HP MicroServer (no monitor/input devices) waited a min or two then connected to the web gui and it was all running. Very impressive!
Everything I have set-up is working fine, 3 drives (no redundancy) shared (UFS) to my Windows 7 machines. At this point I'm thinking this is all excellent!
That's about 70% of what I want to do. I foolishly did not read the comparison chart and I now found out that I can't stream to my XBOX360 or run as an iTunes server.
So, looking through the forums I see many are sticking with version 7. I would like to change to something with support for the above, but without losing all the files on these UFS drives?
Options appear to be:
Downgrade to FreeNas 7
Switch to Nas4Free (This seems to be a supported version of 7 on a newer version of FreeBSD?)
Try FreeNAS beta 8.2 (Does a firmware upgrade take me to this or do I specify the ISO?)
As I said I am a noob and have no experience with FreeBSD I do not know how to get myself out of this situation.
Can I switch to any of these options without losing all my current data? The Beta scares me as I do not want to mess about too often!
Any hints/help would be much appreciated.
Thanks