It is a web based, open source and one of the well known central data storage management tool. It is freeBSD based and support CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FTP, RSYN along with RAID support. Even you can use it as a portable drive to run the FreeNAS on any other system of your home or friend.FreeNAS is a Network Attached Storage operating system. Whenever you want to use the FreeNAS simply boot your computer with the drive in which you have installed the FreeNAS. Remove the FreeNAS bootable drive but not the drive in which you installed it.
Like we did in the following screenshot.įrom there follow the guided steps of installation. When the installer asks you to choose the hard drive to install the FreeNAS at that time select your USB drive. ( For the installation steps you can refer to this link) The FreeNAS installer set up will boot up.As soon as the PC booted up with the FreeNAS, you will get a black window with the option to boot the FreeNAS.Restart the PC and boot it using the FreeNAS bootable thumb drive which created above.Now I assumed that you have attached both USB drives (the one you FreeNAS bootable we made above and other one blank at least 8GB) to your computer system.You should have one spare which we will use to install the FreeNAS bootable and other system files. Note: You can’t install FreeNAS on the same bootable USB drive. Once it has done! Let the FreeNAS bootable USB drive as it is and attach one more blank pen drive where we will install the FreeNAS OS. It will take a few minutes to the tool to create a bootable FreeNAS USB drive. After that select the USB drive from the right side drop-down box. 4: Install Freenas on USBĬlick on the Dropdown box and select Try Unlisted Linux ISO (GRUB). Select the downloaded FreeNAS.ISO file by clicking Browse button. Just Double click on the Universal USB Installer tool. 3: Run the portable USB maker Universal USBĪfter downloading run the Universal USB Installer tool, it is a portable USB maker. If you already have this then move to the next step otherwise here is the link to download. Second thing, we require is the FreeNAS.ISO image. We use it to write the FreeNAS.iso image to our Pendrive to make a bootable FreeNAS USB drive. 5: Boot with FreeNAS bootable USB drive 1: Download the Universal USB Installer Toolįirst of all download the Universal USB Installer Tool.
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