You will have to enter your password to run the command as sudo.The boss snagged an Intel SS4200 NAS as part of the corporate “redundant array of inexpensive crap” strategy. Sudo dd if=/Users/Username/Desktop/FreeNAS-圆4.img of=/dev/disk1 So, if you’re having the same problem, just use a command like this: Plug it into your machine and start having fun with FreeNAS!ĮDIT: Running Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I had the problem that the Terminal gave me Permission Denied errors when running the last command. Just hit ignore or unmount and everything will be alright. That’s totally normal, the Mac can’t read the filesystem on the stick. Your Mac will tell you that it can’t read the drive. I tried it on a very slow merchandise drive and it took 42 minutes. That process can take quite a while so be patient. The command for that is dd and should be like this:ĭd if=/Users/Username/Desktop/FreeNAS-圆4.img of=/dev/disk1 Now you can let your Mac do the magic of transferring the image to the drive. The result should look somewhat like this:
Note that path, it’ll look something like /dev/disk1. To enable your Mac to partition the drive you’ll have to unmount it. That will give you a list of devices one of which is your USB stick. Disk Utility often fails to restore images so we do it the old school way by using Terminal and dd.First, you have to find the path to your drive. img file on the thumbdrive with the Disk Utility, but that approach is flawed. Feel free to download it from there so you won’t need keka. Store it somewhere you’ll find it later.ĮDIT: I tool the liberty and uploaded an already unpacked FreeNAS-圆4.img. Keka is one of the few free Mac tools that can unpack. However, it includes the correct image, a file named FreeNAS-圆4.img.xz (or ). iso file is meant to be used with a CD or DVD so it doesn’t work out of the box on a thumbdrive. – Keka, an open source unarchiver (please see the EDIT under 2.). – The FreeNAS image file, x86 or 圆4, depending on architecture. img file which isn’t available anymore for the most recent versions. Since it is widely praised I chose FreeNAS for that machine but unfortunately it is not very good documented how to actually get your FreeNAS image on a thumbdrive when you’re running Mac OS X. The main point is to benefit from wireless Time Machine backups. Recently, I reactivated an old Asus notebook to use as a NAS.
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