New Install of 12.0

[NOYBYC]

Im trying to learn new things so instead off bying a NAS i thought i would try this. I have a old acer pc dual core 8 gig of memory 128 gig NVME and 1 tb hd. So i thought i try and use that just to learn.

I download the iso used Rufus to put the image onto a 64 gig USB 2 key which ive used for Ubuntu and Mint so i know its good.

Booted from usb key in legacy mode. It freezes on Mask s left for over a hour incase i was just being to eager.

Tried 2 dif iso incase one was corrupted and 4 dif Usb keys nothing

Please explain in simple english as it needs to match the reciprocant :)

 

[sretalla]

It freezes on Mask s

Not clear at all what this means... maybe with some more explanation we could help you.

 

[NOYBYC]

When it boots from the install usb key theres a logo you press 1 then it list a load of task its doing when it gets to Mask S it freezes. hope this clarifies

 

[NOYBYC]

 

[sretalla]

It could be that your hardware is sufficiently old (or running a BIOS that is) to be unable to run the FreeBSD bootloader.

You could try getting hold of a copy of the FreeNAS 11.1 installer and see if that runs (it uses GRUB). (if updating the BIOS isn't possible or doesn't improve the situation)

 

[NOYBYC]

got a copy of Freenas 11.3 same problem. Guess its the hardware. I cant do anything about the bios its the latest version

 

[sretalla]

Nope, must be 11.1 or earlier.

 

[NOYBYC]

oh well guess ill go learn something else ty for the help mate

 

[sretalla]

Or you could try what I suggested...

https://download.freenas.org/11/11.1-U7/x64/FreeNAS-11.1-U7.iso

 

[NOYBYC]

couldnt find 11.1 so ty for link ill give this a go when brown out ends and i have internet again at the staggering speed of 8 mps........

 

[NOYBYC]

Well it installed. Removed usb when prompted. Rebooted. Nothing No Boot media found. Went into bios my HD were gone.......... I dont even know How thats possible........I am baffled. After 4 hours of fathng including removing the drives and trying them in USB caddy There fine just not accesable by my bios. I used windows powershell to clean the drives and tried again bios detected them all good. So we got further Im going to try removing the windows install disk from my main machine and put the mve into this and try and install to see what happens. Please someone Reply STOP when ya sick of hearing about this as it will become a thing........................... (I know to late)

 

[NOYBYC]

Its a hardware issue something in my spare pc is not playing well with these distros...........Bugger......... Oh well. Ty sretalla for your help.