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Joe James
By Joe James
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I downloaded freenas from the website, and have been trying to create an installer, but every time, it just unallocates my drive. I have tried win32, rufus, and image usb. I have tried several usbs, i checked the checksum several times, redownload and rechecked its fine. I can write elementary os to any drive no problem, but freenas just formats the drive and removes the drive letter. And says it's successful. Anyone have any ideas?

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Strange. I've never had such problem with Rufus. If it's only doing it with the FreeNAS.ISO you can try using DD on Linux. It's not hard if you need instructions.

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Dd on Linux? I don't have a Linux install right now, when i put elementary on my 510 it didn't have a mouse, and my keyboard buttons were wrong. Finally was able to update drivers, but it still didn't have a cursor, i was only able to scroll, not click. So thats a whole different issue, i want freenas on it anyway.

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Try using Balena Etcher.

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2 hours ago, 2FA said:

Try using Balena Etcher.

Just tried it, same result. Makes me think its the freenas file, but unfortunately the checksum says its fine. And i have tried multiple downloads.

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8 hours ago, Joe James said:

I downloaded freenas from the website, and have been trying to create an installer, but every time, it just unallocates my drive. I have tried win32, rufus, and image usb. I have tried several usbs, i checked the checksum several times, redownload and rechecked its fine. I can write elementary os to any drive no problem, but freenas just formats the drive and removes the drive letter. And says it's successful. Anyone have any ideas?

I used this to create my freenas boot disk on a usb flash drive. It worked first try for me.

 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

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