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16 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

So I’m trying to set up a NAS and I keep getting this message (look down below in the image) what am I doing wrong? I set it up to RAID 10 since I have 4 HDD and I’m putting it into BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode (for True Nas) any clues as to what it’s doing?

The point of TrueNAS is that it does the RAIDing for you (via ZFS). Remove drives from RAID; you'll set the array up later. In your case, you'll make two pairs of mirror VDEVs.

 

P.S. You'll need a disk separate from your HDDs to install to/boot from. Small SSD recommended (I use a 16GB SATA M.2 drive from an old Chromebook).

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Spoiler 
                       ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ── Cloud Gateway Max ══╦═ Pro XG 8 ══╦═ Flex 2.5-8 ══╦═ Doven Wolf
                      La Vie en Rose (DNS) ═╬═ Narrative  ╠═ Veda-NAS     ╠═ La Vie en Rose (vmbr)
                                Veda (DNS) ─┘             ╠═ Veda (vmbr)  ├─ Ptolemy (vmbr)
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═ Ptolemy-NAS  ├─ Veda (Mgmt)
║   ┌ Closet ┐      ┌───────── Bedroom ─────────┐                         └─ Veda (IPMI)
╚═══ Flex XG ══╦╤═══ Flex XG ══╤╦═ Byarlant
       (PoE)   ║│              │╠═ Narrative 
Kitchen Jack ══╣└─ Dual PoE ┐  │╚═ Jesta Cannon*
   (Testing)   ║┌─ Injector ┘  └── Work Laptop
     Bedroom ══╝│        ┌─────── Media Center ────────────────────────────┐
     Jack #2    └──────── Switch 8 ────────────┬─ nanoHD Access Point (PoE)
Notes:                                         ├─ Sony PlayStation 4 
─── is Gigabit / ═══ is Multi-Gigabit          ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed from Bedroom to Media Center  └─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
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33 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

The point of TrueNAS is that it does the RAIDing for you (via ZFS). Remove drives from RAID; you'll set the array up later. In your case, you'll make two pairs of mirror VDEVs.

 

P.S. You'll need a disk separate from your HDDs to install to/boot from. Small SSD recommended (I use a 16GB SATA M.2 drive from an old Chromebook).

Would an 80gb HDD work for this instead?

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4 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

Would an 80gb HDD work for this instead?

That will be fine.

 

Just don't use a USB flash drive or SD card, and your boot drive can't participate in your storage pool.

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33 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

The point of TrueNAS is that it does the RAIDing for you (via ZFS). Remove drives from RAID; you'll set the array up later. In your case, you'll make two pairs of mirror VDEVs.

 

P.S. You'll need a disk separate from your HDDs to install to/boot from. Small SSD recommended (I use a 16GB SATA M.2 drive from an old Chromebook).

Would an 80gb HDD work for this instead?

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7 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

Would an 80gb HDD work for this instead?

Yes, an 80GB hard drive would work for your boot drive. Don't choose a drive that could fail though, so make sure it's a healthy drive. Solid state drives are recommended these days for boot drives, but if that's not an option a mechanical drive will work as well. 

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2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That will be fine.

 

Just don't use a USB flash drive or SD card, and your boot drive can't participate in your storage pool.

 

Just now, BondiBlue said:

Yes, an 80GB hard drive would work for your boot drive. Don't choose a drive that could fail though, so make sure it's a healthy drive. Solid state drives are recommended these days for boot drives, but if that's not an option a mechanical drive will work as well. 

Ok thank you, any other info I should know before I continue? Also since it’s an old workstation that I transformed into a NAS would using BIOS be better than using UEFI?

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34 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

Ok thank you, any other info I should know before I continue? Also since it’s an old workstation that I transformed into a NAS would using BIOS be better than using UEFI?

Leave it on UEFI. That's fine.

 

I'm running TrueNAS Scale on a couple Dell R720xd servers, both in UEFI mode.

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2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That will be fine.

 

Just don't use a USB flash drive or SD card, and your boot drive can't participate in your storage pool.

 

Just now, BondiBlue said:

Yes, an 80GB hard drive would work for your boot drive. Don't choose a drive that could fail though, so make sure it's a healthy drive. Solid state drives are recommended these days for boot drives, but if that's not an option a mechanical drive will work as well. 

Ok thank you, any other info I should know before I continue? Also since it’s an old workstation that I transformed into a NAS would using BIOS be better than using UEFI?

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Should I “create 16gb swap partition on boot devices” it says this so I’m a bit confused

Yes, let the installer do what it wants to the boot drives. You can just accept all its defaults and get a working install.

 

Once it reboots and you're at the text console, you can set the hostname and root password.

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5 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

Ok thank you, any other info I should know before I continue? Also since it’s an old workstation that I transformed into a NAS would using BIOS be better than using UEFI?

If it's an older system I would just stick with BIOS. 

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4 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Yes, let the installer do what it wants to the boot drives. You can just accept all its defaults and get a working install.

 

Once it reboots and you're at the text console, you can set the hostname and root password.

Thank you 

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4 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Yes, let the installer do what it wants to the boot drives. You can just accept all its defaults and get a working install.

 

Once it reboots and you're at the text console, you can set the hostname and root password.

Thank you, I’m now in the text console and very confused as to where to go next.

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3 minutes ago, yaboi824 said:

Thank you, I’m now in the text console and very confused as to where to go next.

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On another computer, go to the IP address it's showing you. Log in with the user name 'root' and the password you set during setup. From there, you can put together a ZFS pool, create datasets, and set up SMB shares.

 

You might want to read through the official documentation from here. 

 

https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/gettingstarted/install/

 

Craft Computing has a few good videos about setting up TrueNAS, too.

 

 

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