You can download it from FreeNAS Project on SouceForge.
When you come to FreeNAS Project download page on SouceForge:
Choose Stable release if you expect a stable system and want to distribute it into daily use.
Choose Nightly build if you want to check if the newer experimental build can solve a question you have in the current stable release. Further you can try FreeNAS 0.7.* nightly build if your hardware is not supported by FreeBSD 6.4 but supported in FreeBSD 7.0/7.1.
AMD64 for 64bit cpu,i386 for non-64bit cpu; Download FreeNAS*LiveCD*.
ISO and burn it to a CD/CDRW using your favorite tool.
Don't burn the *embedded*.img(since 0.69.*) to a CD/CDRW. The *embedded*.img(since 0.69.*) file is used in these situations: The system doesn't have a CD rom; The system doesn't support to boot from CD ROM. Then you can write the image directly to the install destination by following the
M0n0wall guide.
Boot from the LiveCD,you can run FreeNAS in ram,store configuration file (config.xml) on a floppy/falsh/USB/harddisk, and store your data on harddisk. Or after you boot the LiveCD, you can choose to install FreeNAS to flash/USB/harddisk, and remove the CD from the cd rom after installation.
“LiveCD” is the new name of the old “ISO” ⇒ This release is started from a CDROM, and create a RAM drive for FreeNAS (only one read access during startup), and use a MS DOS (FAT) formatted floppy disk or USB key for saving the configuration file.
“Embedded” is the new name of the old “Generic-pc”. ⇒ This release, installed on an hard drive or on a flash device, use a RAM drive (like the LiveCD) for limiting access to a flash devise. But it write the configuration on the flash device.
Here is the VMware image (create with VMWare Workstation) VMware Player (use it for running the VMware image)
The VMware PC has this configuration
128Mb of RAM
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1 E1000 virtual NIC
Download FreeNAS 0.69RC2 ESX virtual machine (Thanks to Rabbitod for the VM.)
