FreeNAS USB Drive Installation
In order to fully utilize system by FreeNAS, also like to test whether similar hanging issue happened when directly installed on USB drive without ESXi, installation had been done with following steps.
Create on USB drive from ISO image
Creating USB drive on Mac using steps mentioned below.
Preparing the Media
Using rdiskX, which is raw device (not read-only device), will be faster as mentioned in the instructions.
dd if=FreeNAS-9.3-RELEASE-x64.iso of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=64k
Boot from USB drive
Boot from the USB drive created above, and another USB drive will be used for installation.
Select BIOS mode
By choosing BIOS instead of UEFI, the PC bios could not set as auto boot from USB drive, but it can be chosen for manual boot. So choose UEFI mode instead.
Secure Boot
in PC bios also requires to be set to Other OS
instead of Windows UEFI
, otherwise, following error will occurre.
System found unauthorized changes on the firmware error...
Configure network
To set aggragation mode, two original interfaces which had configured, will not be displayed in aggragation menu.
IP address will be configured on aggragation interface.