So, I would like to rip all my DVDs to my NAS so I can watch them from my media center whenever I want. I don't know why I can't just have ports and install software directly to FreeNAS like any other BSD distro, it seems stupid to me to have such a restriction. Whatever.
So, I installed the plugins jail and got everything else I needed (libdvd, et al). However, vobcopy fails to find a device, so I look in /dev/ within the jail and sure enough there is no cd0. cd0 is available outside the jail, works great in fact. Too bad I can't install vobcopy outside the jail because FreeNAS doesn't let U install things and comes with nothing that would let U do so manually (a compiler for instance).
I tried adding it as a mount point but that fails miserably, so how do I get to see my DVD drive from within the plugins jail? Or, even better, how do I install software outside of the jail? I find it hard to believe nobody else is asking these things, I guess I suck at searching; must be getting old, I used to be able to find answers so easily. Sigh.
I don't want to have to keep using my Linux desktop to rip these to the NFS mount, the whole point of putting the drive in the NAS box was to not need powerful computers anywhere else. If anyone has ideas on ripping VHS tapes under FreeNAS, that would be helpful too; otherwise I'll have to do that on my Linux box as well (I have a nice USB connector for my VCR that works perfect under Linux, but can't find any info for doing so under BSD; again, seem to suck at searching).
ThanX
So, I installed the plugins jail and got everything else I needed (libdvd, et al). However, vobcopy fails to find a device, so I look in /dev/ within the jail and sure enough there is no cd0. cd0 is available outside the jail, works great in fact. Too bad I can't install vobcopy outside the jail because FreeNAS doesn't let U install things and comes with nothing that would let U do so manually (a compiler for instance).
I tried adding it as a mount point but that fails miserably, so how do I get to see my DVD drive from within the plugins jail? Or, even better, how do I install software outside of the jail? I find it hard to believe nobody else is asking these things, I guess I suck at searching; must be getting old, I used to be able to find answers so easily. Sigh.
I don't want to have to keep using my Linux desktop to rip these to the NFS mount, the whole point of putting the drive in the NAS box was to not need powerful computers anywhere else. If anyone has ideas on ripping VHS tapes under FreeNAS, that would be helpful too; otherwise I'll have to do that on my Linux box as well (I have a nice USB connector for my VCR that works perfect under Linux, but can't find any info for doing so under BSD; again, seem to suck at searching).
ThanX