In this tutorial, we will show you how to manage packages on FreeBSD 10.1. This includes installing and deleting packages, among other tasks. How To Install and Manage Ports on FreeBSD 10.1.

Is a free and open source OS born to create customizable NAS (network-attached storage) supporting the powerful ZFS filesystem. Based on FreeBSD, it allows to create a resilient storage for your business data. ZFS supports snapshots and encryption, both useful features in business enviroments. Furthermore, RaidZ (a software solution) offers data protection without many issues and limitations of traditional RAID setups. FreeNAS supports all the most adopted file sharing protocols like Apple’s AFP, NFS, CIFS / SMB and iSCSI. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to install FreeNAS to build your own – totally customizable – NAS. Note: for simplicity’s sake we created a virtual machine with 4 virtual disks to simulate a common NAS setup.

Download FreeNAS from the and burn it on a CD/DVD (or use a virtual drive like we did). Boot the machine with the CD/DVD: Select Install/Upgrade: Select the drive where the OS will be installed (not sharable volume).

We suggest to use a flash drive (8GB will be enough) but you can use a HD too: Press Yes: Specify a root password: The installation is quite fast, you can eject the CD/DVD and reboot: Now FreeNAS is up and running. The shell informs us of the assigned IP. In our lab network we have an Active Directory Domain Services so we want to configure the domain controller as the DNS server. To do so we must select option 6: Specify the DNS domain and the nameserver IP: Now it’s time to discover the FreeNAS web interface. To access the web UI use the IP address of the machine, specify the root credentials: A quick wizard will start: Select the default volume and go on: Specify the credentials of a domain administrator: We’ll see how to create a CIFS (SMB) share in future posts, for now leave the fields empty: You can configure FreeNAS to send alerts and notifications to an email account.

We skipped this step: Confirm: We need to create the volume where we will put the data. Go to the Storage section and click Volume Manager: We have 4 disks available and a RaidZ setup is the best trade-off between security, storage capacity and performance (more information about RaidZ available ): The volume creation will take a while: Volume ready!

Important: I take absolutely NO responsibility of what you do with your machine; use this tutorial as a guide and remember you can possibly cause data loss if you touch things carelessly. About this guide This guide is not intended for newbies, FreeNAS is a little more complicated than usual Linux distributions. If you just want to start learning about the *nix world I suggest you start. If like me you want to install FreeNAS 9 on a USB prendrive avoid USB3 drives. Nonton streaming inuyasha the movie 5 sub indo. They’re not guaranteed to work well with FreeNAS (even though there are people that reported USB3 drives were working either plugged in USB2 ports).

The recommended size of the drive is 16GB but you can also use a 8GB or even 4GB (the installation size is quite small but it will get big as time grows because of updates). You should use; using non-ECC memory is a potential threat to your data and should be avoided. FreeNAS 9 has 8GB of memory suggested but you can start with 4GB (at one point the system will choke if you start using it intensively, but 4GB is really fine for the first times). Remember you need a processor.

For the advantages of FreeNAS you can. The main advantage is. As long as you use. 1) PreparationsThe first thing you have to do to proceed with the installation of FreeNAS 9 is boot it from a support (CD/DVD and USB Pendrives are today the best options). Tip: if you plan to install FreeNAS on a USB pendrive you can't use that same pendrive to boot from (you will need two USB drives). Once you have your support, reboot the machine, select an option like “boot options” or “boot priority list” and select your support, in this way you should see this screen. Press enter and then enter a second time.

3) Selecting install destination In this step you will get a list of the possible destinations for your FreeNAS 9 installation. The most common destination is a USB device (you can also select a disk, however FreeNAS won't allow you to use that same disk as storage). If like me you want to install FreeNAS on USB search for entries starting with da, if you want to install on a disk search for entries starting with ad. Check your selection twice: the installation will erase the destination.

When you're ready click enter and confirm.