I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! 1 Preliminary Note In this article I will set up a NAS system with three 30GB hard disks, where the first one is split up in a small partition for the FreeNAS system itself and a large data partition. Gsdx 890 download. I will combine the other two hard drives in a RAID1 array. I will use the IP address 192.168.0.100 for my FreeNAS system with the gateway address 192.168.0.1. 2 Installing FreeNAS Download the latest FreeNAS iso image (0.68 at the time of this writing) from and burn it onto a CD. Then boot from that CD. The following screen will come up.

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Select 7 to install FreeNAS on the hard drive: We want to have two partitions on our first hard drive (one for FreeNAS, one for data storage), so we select 2: Enter the name of your CD-ROM drive. In my case it was acd0: Then enter the name of the hard drive where you want to install FreeNAS and create the data partition. In my case I select the first hard drive, ad0: FreeNAS is now being installed.

Afterwards press, then 3 and 5 to reboot the system: Confirm that you want to reboot by typing y: The system will now reboot. Make sure you remove the FreeNAS CD from the CD-ROM.