Newto TrueNAS

[kdmiller45]

What would you suggest for installing Truenas, I installed it but it too the whole drive for booting
what would be the steps

Thank you

[SmallBarky]

You can start with the Documents. Getting Started and the Hardware section.

Other intro articles or posts
Boot Drive

I have to waste an entire drive just for booting?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. With the advent of TrueNAS Scale, we seem to be getting a large number of people from the Linux community who are not quite grasping what TrueNAS is. TrueNAS is not a “Linux distro” and it is not designed to try to meet your arbitrarily spec’d use cases. TrueNAS is an appliance firmware for storage, which happens to be built on top of FreeB…

BASICS

ZFS Primer

iX Systems pool layout whitepaper

TrueNAS Comprehensive Solution Brief and Guides

[pmh]

TrueNAS needs a whole drive for booting. It’s an appliance OS and the boot drive holds the “firmware”. You are supposed to add storage disk drives to manage with TrueNAS.