How to install plugin without internet?

[jjjhong]

Hello

I have installed TrueNAS in VMWare.
I download iso file from my home, and I exchange to my company's server.
My company can't connect internet, and I want to install Plex Media Server plugin.
I have the following questions:

1. Can I download plugin files?
2. How install it?

 

[sretalla]

Short answer... NO.

Long answer... You would certainly be able to find all the materials for each of the plugins on github and use the scripts there to identify all the required pkg files and get them from the FreeBSD archives, then install them with pkg.
You would also need to deal with iocage not having internet access to get hold of the releases for the jail, so there would be some way of doing that with manually downloaded files too.
I have no interest in documenting that or explaining it further for you though.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You could setup TrueNAS in some location with Internet access, install the plugin, then create an archive with zfs send and carry that to the company server on suitable media. Then use zfs receive to create the entire iocage dataset tree including the plugin.
Some familiarity with the command line, removable media in Unix, ZFS commands ... will be required.

A question in addition: when installing "in VMware" as you wrote, did you follow the virtualisation guide and use PCIe pass-through for the controllers and disks attached to TrueNAS?

"Absolutely must virtualize FreeNAS!" ... a guide to not completely losing your data.

[---- 2018/02/27: This is still as relevant as ever. As PCIe-Passthru has matured, fewer problems are reported. I've updated some specific things known to be problematic ----] [---- 2014/12/24: Note, there is another post discussing how to deploy a small FreeNAS VM instance for basic file...

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