Where to find FreeNAS wiki?

[Eniac74]

In Deltona's thread on headless installation

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/headless-install-no-kb-no-mon-only-serial-how.7487/

there is a reference in the last posting that the final details of his "fix" would shortly (then, i.e. in 2012) be added to the wiki. Unfortunately, I have failed totally in my endeavour to find this wiki, so could anybody enlighten me to its whereabouts? I read the manual for version 9.3, but found no mentioning of the problem solution for headless installation as far as I could tell.

 

[dlavigne]

The wiki was deprecated last spring (olddoc.freenas.org).

 

[Eniac74]

OK. When clicking on the hyperlink to the release notes from December 14, 2012, I found something called a wiki, but seem to be empty now.

Anyway, I have solved the monitor part, but am still looking for the keyboard solution - is it possible to use a USB keyboard on boot? I do not own one as of now, so have had no chance to try, but if somebody can verify that it works, I can of course buy one.

 

[dlavigne]

As long as the system has enough USB ports to support both the keyboard and the boot device (assuming it is a USB thumbdrive), it should work. What is your hardware and how are you trying to install? Which version are you trying to install?

 

[Eniac74]

It should work. It is a fresh hardware setup after reading up on several guides on the matter (so hoping to avoid a lot of unnecessary mishaps):

Motherboard: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F (embedded Intel Atom CPU)
RAM: 2 x 8GB DDR3-1600 ECC
HDD: 2 x HGST 2 TB
FreeNAS: 9.3 (stable) on USB thumbdrive

I have more than one USB port available, so guessing it should work then. Hence, will try to source (borrow or buy) the keyboard shortly and try.

 

[Eniac74]

Problem solved with USB keyboard in a USB 2.0 port. However, this created another problem as I think I am out of USB 2.0 ports, but I will post this as another thread instead as this one is solved.

 

[Ericloewe]

Why do you even need a keyboard? You have IPMI!

 

[Eniac74]

Right so you are! Did not manage to successfully log on earlier so reasoned that I perhaps could not access it so early in the process (although it sounded illogical). I missed that fact that the factory set user/pw was case sensitive though...so now I have advanced. Thanks!

 

[Ericloewe]

It's also limited to 19 characters, most likely, so pay attention to that when changing the default password.