Can not add a volume to the storage

[Jss tom]

I am very new to FreeNAS, but would like to give it a try on an old PC (Dell dimension 4600 with a P4 processor and 2.5G memory). The installation was done via CD image and the version is 9.2. Althouh my original intension was to get version 8, I could not find a place to download from. Anyway, the plan is to give it a try.

The installation appeared to be smooth a 4GB flashdrive. On the old pc, I can see "Console Setup" (1-11). I was also able to login in remotely from another PC. Did some initial setup, I am stuck at the storage adding volume part.

I have two very small hardrives (40 and 80 GB). The 40GB one was old system drive for XP, which I would hope to keep. The 80GB drive was the one up for test.

In the storage tab, I tried everything I could on the 80GB drive so that I have something to share, from ZFS Manager, UFS Manager, Import Volume. Auto Import and View Disks. Nothing happened. The FreeNAS 9.2 obivously reconginze that there are two hard drives. The problem is that I can not add a volume to FreeNAS.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[cyberjock]

Check out the manual... doc.freenas.org

I will tell you that your hardware does NOT meet the minimum requirements for FreeNAS. If you plan to use your server to store data you had better keep religious backups. Ignoring the minimum requirements causes people to lose their data irrecoverably and suddenly. I've already told 2 people today that because they ignored the requirements they can kiss their data goodbye.

 

[Jss tom]

Thanks for your quick respsonse and kind concern. Your point is well taken. There is actually no cheaper alternative here. At this point, I am just want to try out a few things of FreeNAS. I would certainly upgrade the "recommended" hardware once I can afford.

I glance through the doc in the PDF format. One thing old is that the left panel panel of FreeNAS did not show up in my webbrowser, IE 11. I noticed this but did not pay attention to. I tried Firefox and my problem solved. I was able to import the 80G harddrive as NTFS. I realized that this is not preferred. My next step will test UFS.

In summary, my problem appeared to be related to the web browser.

BTW, I did save your PPT for future references.

 

[cyberjock]

Just an FYI.. one of those 2 people I mentioned today.. one of them lost their data because they didn't meet the minimum requirements and kept telling themself "it's on my list of things to-do".

 

[Jss tom]

Thanks again for the reminding....

But, I just want to close this thread. This appeared to a known issue, Bug #3455, Internet Explorer 10/11 compat issues with FreeNAS.