Bug #12682

The great thing about FreeNAS is it's 'jails' system that allows you to spin up purpose-built specialty virtual machines on the system. Jails are not FreeNAS specific, it's a BSD technology. Linux has chroot, Solaris has containers, and Windows, well, nothing out of the box, Sanboxie or Virtuozzo containers can provide similar functionality.
Here are the steps to create the FreeNas Server: Disable PERC controller in BIOS. Edit Loader.conf to allow PERC driver to load. Choose option 9 “shell”. Set file system into writeable mode “mount -rw /dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a” (or whatever the device is called) nano /boot/loader.conf. Add mfiload=”YES” to /boot/loader.conf.

It's a purpose-built NAS, you probably can't install a plain-Jane OS on it at all. Look through the first document Joe linked you to: it's entitled 'Reinstalling the Operating System on the Dell™ PowerVault™ 745N'. Tells you what to do, and it's quite specific. It's not a standard OS install. – mfinni Aug 25 '11 at 14:27.

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Description

I've been trying to install freenas on my old dell poweredge 2950 server. I have it up and running fine but it is unable to detect the hard drives connected to the server's hot swap backplane. They are routed through a raid card, is this a problem?

History

#1 Updated by Sam Clay over 5 years ago

Fileixdiagnose.tgz added

#2 Updated by Jordan Hubbard over 5 years ago

Status changed from Unscreened to Closed: User Config Issue

#3 Updated by Kris Moore almost 5 years ago

Seen in changed from Unspecified to N/A

#4 Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 4 years ago

File deleted (~~ixdiagnose.tgz~~)

#5 Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 4 years ago

Target version set to N/A
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I've just replaced my inkjet printer with a laser one (Samsung ML-2955ND: Netword and Duplex).
Samsung provide drivers for lot's of OS (HP-UX, IBM AIX, GNU/Linux, MacOSX, etc…) but nothing for FreeBSD :-(
Hopefully the GNU/Linux drivers is CUPS based and use standard PPD file… But with a binary only cups-filter.
I didn't know if it was possible to use the Linux emulation layer of FreeBSD for using this cups-filter, but a previous experience was successful, then I try it too.
The major idea is to:

Install print/cups
Enable and install the FreeBSD Linux binary compatibility
Getting the Samsung Unified drivers for the ML-2950 series
Extracting the PPD file and the i386 binary cups-filter used by the PPD
Fixing the missing dependency needed by the samsung cups-filter

I will not explain the steps 1,2 and 3.
Extract the Unified Linux Drivers:
$ tar zxvf ULD_Linux_V1.00.06.tar.gz
Then check the filter used by the PPD file:
$ grep cupsFilter uld/noarch/share/ppd/Samsung_ML-2950_Series.ppd
*cupsFilter: 'application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertospl'

=> This PPD file use the 'rastertospl' filter.

Now copy the PPD and the Samsung cups-filter to the local cups directories:
$ mkdir /usr/local/share/cups/model/samsung
$ cp uld/noarch/share/ppd/Samsung_ML-2950_Series.ppd/usr/local/share/cups/model/samsung/
$ cp uld/i386/rastertospl /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/
Once copied, you can execute rastertosamsungspl from a CLI for displaying the missing Linux libs:
# /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertospl
/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Install Freenas 11

There are two method here:
The first and easiest is simply to install print/linux-f10-cups-libs. It should install all dependency needed by the crappy Samsung binary filter (Thanks Patrick for this tips!)
The second, a lot's more complex, and that add lot's of file not managed by the FreeBSD package manager is to check for missing libs one by one: You need to install the missing libs, running a ldconfig and re-execute rastertosamsungspl for discovering that another libs is missing.
Here is the list of all libs that I've installed:
# cd /tmp
# fetch http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/cups-libs-1.3.9-2.fc10.i386.rpm
# fetch http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/gnutls-2.4.2-2.fc10.i386.rpm
# fetch http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/libtasn1-1.5-1.fc10.i386.rpm
# fetch http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/libgcrypt-1.4.3-2.fc10.i386.rpm
# fetch http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/libgpg-error-1.6-2.i386.rpm
# cd /compat/linux
# rpm2cpio /tmp/cups-libs-1.3.9-2.fc10.i386.rpm | tar -zxf -
# rpm2cpio /tmp/gnutls-2.4.2-2.fc10.i386.rpm | tar -zxf -
# rpm2cpio /tmp/libtasn1-1.5-1.fc10.i386.rpm | tar -zxf -
# rpm2cpio /tmp/libgcrypt-1.4.3-2.fc10.i386.rpm | tar -zxf -
# rpm2cpio /tmp/libgpg-error-1.6-2.i386.rpm | tar -zxf -
# /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
Once all dependencies are installed, you should have this message when executing rastertosamsungspl:
# /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl
INFO: Usage: rastertosamsungspl job-id user title copies options [file]
ERROR: Wrong number of arguments
Now you can add your printer from the CUPS admin panel and use it :-)