Installing FreeNAS without cdrom?

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Phimp

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I've burned several cds in several different ways, tried 3 different cdrom drives and every setting in the bios.

Every time, after it boots up from the cd, and I select option 1 (i believe it's one - install freenas to cf/hd/usb), it says "failed to detect any cdrom".

So how can I write the iso directly to a usb drive?
dd if=freenas.iso of=/dev/sda
or something like that? of course I'll have to use a live linux cd for that since I don't use linux.
should i use dd for windows? what would the command be?

sorry for the questions, im eager to get my new NAS box up and running.
 
Well... After several hundred attempts at using the dd command to copy the image to the usb drive, I finally got it.
I used the embedded image, and used the command:
sudo gunzip -c /home/ubuntu/Desktop/FreeNAS-i386-embedded-0.686b2.img | dd of=/dev/sda1
In a Ubuntu 6.04 live cd.

So ya... aaaaaanyways, if a mod could just delete this thread, that would be splendid. :rolleyes:
 
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