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On 30 Dec 2013 17:31, "Richard Brown" <wildwoodslosty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> Just to fill you on the HP. I have been speaking to the FreeNAS
> community and finding out a bit more about using FreeNAS and also ZFS.
>
> 1. FreeNAS uses the whole drive. So if you have a 20gb drive FreeNAS
> will use that completely for the OS. If you have a 250gb drive FreeNAS
> will use the whole drive for the OS.
> 2. In order to run ZFS it is recommended that you have a minimum of
> 8gb memory available as it has a lot of overheads.
>
> This is why you are encouraged to run of a bootable flash drive. You
> can burn the os to a usb stick which is only 8gb in size.
>
> In view of this my HP box needs upgrading in terms of ram and I need
> to burn to a memory stick. I haven't been able to do this at the
> moment. Could anybody help with this please? I have tried burning to a
> stick a couple of times and it isn't bootable. I would happily
> contribute towards beer fund etc if someone did this.
>
> Also is it still best to go down the FreeNAS route?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>
Hi Rich,
What is it you're downloading? (Can you provide a link, is possible?)
What is the exact command you are using to try and create your bootable pendrive?
Grant
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