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On Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:30:08 BST Dale wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:37 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com |
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> > <mailto:markknecht@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:21 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > > <SNIP> |
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> > > > I have looked into OpenNAS and other NAS OS stuff. Some are on |
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> > |
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> > USB sticks and basically, you shut it down, upgrade the USB stick, |
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> > insert it back into NAS and boot up. |
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> > > <SNIP> |
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> > > |
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> > > The first version of TrueNAS I used was on a USB stick and it worked |
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> > fine so I'm fairly confident you'd be at least functional. |
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> > One last thing for now - if you do buy a used MB do some research into |
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> > whether it will actually boot from USB. One of the ones I bought |
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> > actually did not do that so I had to dig up a old DVD drive to install |
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> > from a CD. |
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> > - M |
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> I've got a older donated machine that doesn't boot from USB too. The |
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> newer donated machine does, I've booted from USB sticks before. I'm |
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> going to pull the side off and see how many drives it can hold and such |
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> in a bit. If I gather up enough steam. As it is, I only need three at |
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> the moment, four maybe later. Most come with six but this is a factory |
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> built machine. I can't recall what it comes with. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Depending on the age of the MoBo, even if it can't boot from USB, it should be |
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able to boot with 'pixie'. Set up a tftp PXE server on your LAN and the old |
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MoBo will fetch the image(s) to boot with. You can take a look here for |
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ideas: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ |
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Installation_alternatives#Diskless_install_using_PXE_from_the_LiveCD |