I fixed my sick NAS box. The rebuild may take a while.

Since before we moved house last year, one of my home NAS boxes has been poorly. It kept locking up, whether in use or busy. At our old house I attached a screen and found out why. Drive errors on the boot SSD.So, having a very rare quiet night in alone, I am using it to do one of the more urgent jobs on my personal to-do list. I have been working on it for nearly 2 hours now and it is 90% done.It's an HP Microserver Gen 8. (The other two are Gen 1.)I replaced the SSD with one of the smallest of my spares. Physically, that was easy.Then I needed to reinstall an OS on it. It was running TrueNAS Core, but that is end-of-life now and the company behind it is promoting its new Linux based alternative. My box is a bit too small for this: it has half the minimum recommended RAM.So, I am trying a recent revival of the terminated project, called FreeCORE. This is the same management GUI, with any proprietary bits removed, and rebased on a current version FreeBSD. Right now that means FreeBSD…

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