freenas lcd module free sample
I"m using the FreeNAS 9.3, and I want to know if it possible to attach a LCD Display to it, to show if anything is wrong, at least the initialization, process, once I do not have a monitor near by to connect to it, every time that I need to restart.
You can’t import your existing data as FreeNAS does not support ext4 file systems. Your drives will be fully wiped when you create a ZFS array. However, a preview of the webgui without creating an array is harmless…
umount /dev/cdromNo need to reboot the VM even if the script asks to. That"s an old message from back when it was needed to install a kernel module in addition to the management agent. We"ll get rid of it at some point.
FreeBSD is a 30-year-old operating system used widely to run all sorts of systems and has served as the basis for a number of operating systems, including MacOS, pfSense, and FreeNAS. The Xen kernel modules are built and distributed in the GENERIC kernel, so if you haven"t customised or recompiled your kernel, the drivers will be present.
FreeNAS is a locked-down version of FreeBSD, with many packages disabled to ensure a more stable environment for the fileserver. xe-guest-utilities is part of the packages that are not available in FreeNAS. But because it"s based on FreeBSD, the packages from that OS can be installed, at your own risk. This is not a big issue for this particular package, because it"s a leaf in the chain of dependencies - nothing in FreeNAS depends on it.
If you are using FreeNAS v11.2 or higher, you also have to disable the local package repository to avoid an issue in that particular release and that may affect later versions(opens new window) before running pkg install:
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