consol menu missing

[robkenbat]

I downloaded FREEnas okay and burnt the iso file to CD. Also plugged in a USB drive to the computer I want the nas on.
installing the software was impossible as no consol menu appeared to give a choice of drive to install freenas.

All I got was a scrolling of files, ending with a da0 fault code.

I tried redownloading 32 and 64 bit and burnt 5 CDs, all to no effect. The same result each time ???

Any ideas???

[joeschmuck]

Try to boot the CD without the USB drive. I suspect it will boot fine. If so, try another USB Flash drive, 2GB or larger, do not use USB3 Flash drive or a USB3 port.
You didn't specify which version of FreeNAS you were trying to use either but I would suggest 8.0.3-RC3 and expect the final release of that version soon.

If the above suggestion doesn't work, what is your system hardware setup (be specific)?

[robkenbat]

Thanks for replying.
I've tried all of those suggestions and have downloaded 8.0.3 beta 1 and burnt the iso. Same result.
The message I get at the end of the file installation seems to indicate it's loking to install on the CD drive ???

Error message is: trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mdo /dev/dao
unknown class 'daeman' fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such directory

The PC I want to make into an NAS is an AMD quad core 9850 with 4 GB RAM.
I've tried 64 and 32 bit iso files.

It's a very strange one this??

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next morning.

Sorted it!! I used an old laptop and bingo, got the Console menu. Still don't know why the nas pc wouldn't cooperate though!