Building / Updating FreeNAS 9.10 or 10

Build Guide

Detailed instructions for building FreeNAS can be found here.

The steps below are the short summary version.

Requirements

• Your build environment must be FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE or later (or FreeBSD 10-STABLE) (building on FreeBSD 9 or 11 is not supported at this time).

• An amd64 capable processor. 12GB of memory, or an equal/greater amount of swap space, is also required.

• An internet connection for downloading source and packages

Building FreeNAS

Note: All these commands must be run as root.

Install the dependencies:

# make bootstrap-pkgs

Download and assemble the source code:

# make checkout

Compile the source, then generate the .ISO:

# make release

Once the build completes successfully, you'll have release bits in the _BE directory. 😄

FreeNAS 9.10

To build FreeNAS 9.10, simply add the argument PROFILE=freenas9 to the checkout and release commands, or if you are using a custom profile (see build/profiles directory, copy to new profile) then edit to suit. eg:

# make checkout PROFILE=freenas9
# make release PROFILE=freenas9

Updating an existing installation

To update an existing FreeNAS 9.10 or 10 instance that you are using for development purposes:

• make update
• make ports
• make reinstall-package package=freenas host=root@1.2.3.4

Where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of your development platform. SSH will be used to push and install the new packages onto that host.