FreeNAS Installation

[Monty Carlo]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, I'm new to NAS and the FreeNAS forums, so bare with me here if you can. I'm currently researching into building a NAS system, but I wanted to play with the software first on a my Lenovo Y570 laptop (i7 processor 8gb RAM) which I no longer use. I burned the latest version 9.2 to a CD and when I booted to it, initialization failed with an error:

init: initial setsid() failed: Operation not permited
cp: cannot overwrite directory /etc/nameb with non-directory /conf/default/etc/namedb
cp: symlink: /usr/sbin/rmt: File exists

From here, the install screen appears, but does not allow me to choose option 1 and select a disk. It just reloads the screen. And so I am forced to quit.

I have verified the integrity of the download file using the hash and that matches up. I have also tried using another laptop and installing from a usb drive instead, but I get this message each time. Is this most likely an issue with hardware or firmware compatibility? Let me know what you think. Thanks!

 

[cyberjock]

Your laptop hardware is probably not compatible with FreeBSD. You may have a bad USB stick too.

 

[Monty Carlo]

Thanks for the quick reply! I had suspected that. However, I do want to be sure that the hardware I buy for my build is compatible with FreeBSD. It would be a shame to go through all this trouble to find this error come up later on. It'll be a budget machine for sure, but any idea if the following hardware would be compatible?

Case: Lian Li PC-Q25B
Motherboard/CPU: ASRock E350M1
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB
Power Supply: Corsair CX430 430W
Hard Drive: 2 TB WD Red SATA 5400 RPM NAS

I'm new to this, so if anyone finds a major issue here, feel free to point it out.

 

[cyberjock]

Yes.. check out the stickies. ECC RAM, server grade motherboard, etc is pretty much required. Getting a motherboard with built-in Intel NICs and IPMI are major pluses.

 

[Monty Carlo]

Ah, I see. Well, in that case, there's a bit of misleading information floating around outside the forums. Thanks for pointing me to those stickies.

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. we despise the incorrect info. I've tried to tell some of the people responsible for disseminating incorrect info but they don't care.