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On 30/12/13 17:30, Richard Brown 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 > > > On 30 December 2013 12:00, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 30/12/13 11:51, Richard Brown wrote: >>> Hi Guys >>> >>> t looks like I don't have the option of booting from a usb drive. >>> When I look at boot device priority it says HDD or Network. Should >>> there be an option for usb please? Is it possible to load the os onto >>> the hd someway or if not looks like I need to get a dvd drive? >>> >>> Thanks Have you tried using unetbootln http://zleap.net/unetbootln-usb-how_to/ Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq