Install NAS4Free on an Icybox IB-NAS4210-B

[Meteorhead]

Hi!

Totally new to both the forums and NAS4Free in general, so bear with with me.

I wanted to pimp my old NAS with a seed capable torrent server, that could actually be controlled remotely in a comfortable fashion. My NAS' own OS is no longer maintained, and even though the firmware is open-sourced, there is little guidance on how to update a package, plus, it was last compiled with GCC 3.4 (not a feat I could pull off in 2017).

Therefore: upgrade. Enter NAS4Free.

My NAS uses an ARM processor (http://wiki.nas-portal.org/index.php/IB-NAS4210-B) and the FreeNAS comparison page (http://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-nas4free/) says NAS4Free has experimental ARM support.

Could I get some guidance on how to install to an embedded system? I can

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to the disk over the USB interface, but I have no idea how the board will try to boot my disk (I cannot obtain video output from a BIOS-like something). How should one proceed?

[ChriZathens]

Hello, there...
While N4F did support ARM platforms, the ARM releases are no longer maintained/available.
One of our mods, however (alexey123) has mentioned that he is going to proceed with further development in ARM releases.
BUT, I highly doubt that the Icybox is capable of running n4f..
As far as I could see, after a -really- quick look, it has a 300MHz CPU and what, like 32MB of RAM?
The ARM releases were oriented towards Rpi and such (about 700-100MHz CPUs and 512-1GB of RAM)
I think you should stick with the stock firmware..
I used to have an old Icybox like the one you have, but the 2drive version (don't remember the exact model - it went to the recycle bin years ago)
But I do remember that I had installed openwrt and it was fine with that.
OpenWRT even has extra modules, so you could install a torrent client in there.
Maybe worth to look towards that direction