How to install on a CF

[plegault]

I've been going through several how-tos but cannot find a working solution for this.

I'm trying to install from the LiveUSB img file onto a CF:

dd if=NAS4Free-x64-LiveUSB-9.1.0.1.273.img of=/dev/ada4

System boots fine, I can import my ZFS pool but for the life of me, it seems impossible to make any changes to the configuration and everything is lost on reboot.

What's the deal with this?

[raulfg3]

please check if is the same problem that alexey123 describe here: viewtopic.php?p=4646#p4646

[armandh]

I do not use the .img file. I prefer the CD .iso
and use a CD to load NAS4Free on to most any boot medium.
simple and to date, no problems!

it does not have to be done on the computer which will become the NAS
However when wiping and loading on another computer,
use great care to select the correct drive.

I have used for a embedded boot drive

1] live CD
2} a small Hdd
3] usb thumb drive
4] a micro sd [internal usb]
5] a SATA flash drive
6] both 40 and 44 pin PATA flash drives
what ever the hardware works well with

the SATA and PATA flash
http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/f ... sh_modules

of the 3 below
the 4 thread uses a 40 pin flash
the 2 thread uses a SATA flash
the 1 thread uses a 44 pin flash with a cable adapter to 40 pin

everything I have used was loaded from a CD

[daoyama]

I'm trying to install from the LiveUSB img file onto a CF:

dd if=NAS4Free-x64-LiveUSB-9.1.0.1.273.img of=/dev/ada4

LiveUSB is as same as LiveCD. If you want change it, you must install NAS4Free after bootup LiveUSB.
If you want modify CF, boot from another CF or USB then install to CF by console menu.

[plegault]

I'm running on a headless box. Is there any way to install the embedded version via an ssh session after bootup? I haven't seen this console menu on bootup.

[raulfg3]

I'm running on a headless box. Is there any way to install the embedded version via an ssh session after bootup? I haven't seen this console menu on bootup.

You can install embeded version on other machine Eg: Win7 machine using dd or phisicdiskwrite , etc... see this post. viewtopic.php?f=55&t=19

But remember that embeded version is designed to run on RAM so all manual changes are lost when reboot ( you maintain changes that you do using webgui, but you can't install aditional packages or modify config files by hand).

If you need persistent changes, you need full install, and you need monitor & keyboard to do the install.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=606

[Onichan]

I'm running on a headless box. Is there any way to install the embedded version via an ssh session after bootup? I haven't seen this console menu on bootup.

You can install embeded version on other machine Eg: Win7 machine using dd or phisicdiskwrite , etc... see this post. viewtopic.php?f=55&t=19

But remember that embeded version is designed to run on RAM so all manual changes are lost when reboot ( you maintain changes that you do using webgui, but you can't install aditional packages or modify config files by hand).

If you need persistent changes, you need full install, and you need monitor & keyboard to do the install.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=606

I have actually done a full install using VMware. Plug the USB/CF device into your desktop that has VMware Workstation running. Then attach the USB device to the virtual and mount the ISO to the virtual then boot. I did this for my last full upgrade.

[plegault]

I also tried to dd the embedded OS onto the CF card but that is simply unreadable afterwards.

I also tried to have my config.xml copied on the mounted CF card in /mnt/cf/conf/config.xml but that is completely ignored on bootup.

[plegault]

I also tried to dd the embedded OS onto the CF card but that is simply unreadable afterwards.

I also tried to have my config.xml copied on the mounted CF card in /mnt/cf/conf/config.xml but that is completely ignored on bootup.

I'm just a little mesmerized that this was so easy on FreeNAS and has become quite the headache on NAS4Free.

Is it possible to just dd the embedded version to a device? Anybody here having done that?

[shakky4711]

Hello,

the current image files are no plain dd images, they are compressed with gzip.

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user@ede:~/Downloads/9.1.0.1.262$ gunzip -l NAS4Free-x64-embedded-9.1.0.1.262.img
         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
           79641071            91865088  13.3% NAS4Free-x64-embedded-9.1.0.1.262.img
user@ede:

So just uncompress the file, then you can dd the uncompressed file.

One forum member suggested to rename these ".img" files at Sourceforge to "img.gz", then people do not run in these problems because they know it is necessary to uncompress before dd the file.

But this would break the possibility to upgrade older embedded installs which expect ".img" files, so I understand the developers can not switch. But a big warning could be sensefull, but as I know from practice only < 0.1 percent from all users read any README.FIRST files

Shakky

[wallacefung]

I am running Full ver Nas4Free on my 4GB USB Stick. It works fine