amtriorix
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You cannot create the storage pool at install time and you probably never will be able to do it. The entire idea is to install TrueNAS to a boot medium, boot that, then create your storage pool. The division between boot ("firmware") and storage like in any common appliance is most probably set in stone, because it makes sense. You are free to suggest pool creation at install time via iXsystems' JIRA, though.
Have you even made it to the "create pool" function of TrueNAS after installation, yet? What are you missing?
You can perfectly create a zfs file system at install time and install on top of that a bootable freebsd OS that boots from
the zfs pool. You do not need to have separate disks at all. That is the whole point, to boot from ZFS and to use the filesystem
to separate boot/root/data/vdisk (if needed)
if you run freenas in proxmox, there are no issues seen you can use a storage pool, but there is also usage in a way you simply
take a nas case, dump 6 disks inside and a miniITX server board (pref intel nics and AES-NI) and everything, including the os/truenas
is installed on those 6 disks, boots from it and the same disks serve as data/zvol