Greg,
BTW, I was finally able to use the FDISK /MBR command and not get an error!
The machine took the command at the a: prompt, a line feed, a bit of delay,
and the a: prompt is back. Doing FDISK again and checking for partitions
showed nada. I expect this is the expected result. I've never seen a User
Manual for FDISK. Probably old folklore by now! LOL!
I hope you have better luck with FreeNAS than I have had. I am now on my
3rd complete erase/reformat/reinstall. I can not do any of the basic setup.
A) The ip addy defaults to 192.168.1.250/24 which humorously just happens
to be that of my network printer! So I now get screen after screen of
network errors. Trying to ping any of my other LAN clients fail, so I am
stuck with this troubleshooting. So far, FreeNAS will not let me change the
default ip addy of the OS/machine. Hmm........
B) What comes in the ISO does not appear to match the only User Manual
(v0.684b) on the FreeNAS site, so I'm still trying to interpret the screen
to something close in the UM.
C) Yes, FreeNAS appears to be primarily focused to creating a raid array
if/when multiple disks are installed. I am not certain I really care for
this. And, I still do not have the 'core' data disks in hand. Still shopping.
D) FreeNAS is adamant about using the hd it sees for its' OS and /data/ if
there is space left over! I find no way to stop it from doing this. Gave
up. I'd really like to just put the OS on the hd for test. And, install my
/data hds later. This I will get over I suppose........for now.
Believe I am going to back up and erase/reburn the ISO again. Now have the
ISO labled 'stable' and dated 12/18/07. It's still fun. Nice to see that my
bunch of old parts still work and do not seem to have any structural
problems. But, since the hd is only 1.08GB in size, I have few options for
a different OS to try and load for test. MS-DOS6.22 and the version of
DR-DOS that Nero writes to the CD, the machine appears to be OK.
At 22:21 12/26/2007 -0600, you wrote:
Interesting. Haven't looked at FreeNAS until now, but looks like it supports
both MS AD authentication and has the ability to create iSCSI targets. Those
two features alone make it a very compelling project to me. I have a ton of
old 250GB drives gathering dust, might have to slap together a box.
I'll be interested to see how its software RAID5 implementation performs...
Greg
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