Where's 9.10 image file?

[Ion]

Hello,

I'm about to perform a clean install of FreeNAS on a USB Flash drive for which I need an ".img" file, however I can't find it.

I've been looking for the file here: http://download.freenas.org/latest/ and here http://download.freenas.org/10/

Am I blind or is there something I'm missing? I can only find ISOs and I can't use those for this .

Thank you,

Ion

 

[Ericloewe]

There's only an ISO. There's been only an ISO for quite some time now. What documentation are you using?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Image files only existed in 9.2.x. everything now uses an ISO and you will need a usb to use as install media and another device to install to.

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[danb35]

and you will need a usb to use as install media

...or a CD-ROM, or the ability to mount .isos via IPMI... But no, there's no .img that you can just write out to a USB device and have that be your running FreeNAS system.

 

[Sakuru]

http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/install.html#preparing-the-media

 

[Ion]

I see...

Thank you very much for the replies, I remember reading from the FreeNAS documentation, perhaps I was looking at the 9.3 version (probably).

Will it be possible to connect two USB Flash drives and use one to install the OS on the other? I guess yeah (as long as the USB has enough memory).

Thanks ;)

 

[Ericloewe]

perhaps I was looking at the 9.3 version (probably)

No, think 9.2.1.x.

Will it be possible to connect two USB Flash drives and use one to install the OS on the other? I guess yeah (as long as the USB has enough memory).

Of course, but, depending on your hardware, that might be a silly way of doing things.

 

[Ion]

No, think 9.2.1.x.

Of course, but, depending on your hardware, that might be a silly way of doing things.

Just wanted to make sure of that :D (wouldn't be the first time I see USBs let out of the game for no reason).

Well it's all about recycling an old computer which doesn't have an internal hard drive, therefore I'm using a USB instead and recycling an old external HDD hard drive of 500GB. It's quite a decent machine, i5 processor and 4GB of RAM so it should run FreeNAS decently.

Obviously I won't be available to use the advanced features of FreeNAS with this setup but I can't wait to put my hands on it :p

I can only give my thanks to the people behind it :)

 

[Ericloewe]

It's quite a decent machine, i5 processor and 4GB of RAM so it should run FreeNAS decently.

I'm afraid I must disagree. The minimum requirement for FreeNAS is 8GB of RAM. At the very least, try to meet that requirement - ECC and other details are secondary to a dangerous lack of RAM.

 

[pirateghost]

Just wanted to make sure of that :D (wouldn't be the first time I see USBs let out of the game for no reason).

Well it's all about recycling an old computer which doesn't have an internal hard drive, therefore I'm using a USB instead and recycling an old external HDD hard drive of 500GB. It's quite a decent machine, i5 processor and 4GB of RAM so it should run FreeNAS decently.

Obviously I won't be available to use the advanced features of FreeNAS with this setup but I can't wait to put my hands on it [emoji14]

I can only give my thanks to the people behind it :)

Yeah. No.

"Advanced" features like running reliably?

Or working at all?

That 500gb hard drive is going to waste if you install FreeNAS on it as well.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Just wanted to make sure of that :D (wouldn't be the first time I see USBs let out of the game for no reason).

Well it's all about recycling an old computer which doesn't have an internal hard drive, therefore I'm using a USB instead and recycling an old external HDD hard drive of 500GB. It's quite a decent machine, i5 processor and 4GB of RAM so it should run FreeNAS decently.

Obviously I won't be available to use the advanced features of FreeNAS with this setup but I can't wait to put my hands on it [emoji14]

I can only give my thanks to the people behind it :)

That system is not going to work for freenas. Read the system requirements and try again.

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[Ion]

A year and a half ago I did try FreeNAS on a similar system and it did work fine for the two days that I had the thing running on the Network, perhaps they had 8GB of RAM, I can't remember now.

Oh well, I'll have too look for some RAM modules, to be honest I didn't even think about it since FreeNAS is mainly known to put old systems to good use!

Thanks for all the comments ;).

 

[pirateghost]

A year and a half ago I did try FreeNAS on a similar system and it did work fine for the two days that I had the thing running on the Network, perhaps they had 8GB of RAM, I can't remember now.

Oh well, I'll have too look for some RAM modules, to be honest I didn't even think about it since FreeNAS is mainly known to put old systems to good use!

Thanks for all the comments ;).

2 days is not long enough to justify.

And I don't know what decade you're still in that FreeNAS is known to put old systems to use, but that hasn't been the case in at least 5 years...