badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 I'm trying to build a standalone Emby server with an embedded Intel i7 board. I installed FreeBSD 11.2 amd64. That seemed to have worked as advertised. I came here and just followed the instructions https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html but it fails at step 2. pkg: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz: Authentication error I do not know FreeBSD beond just running the installer and logging in. Anyone care to help me out?
Luke 42077 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 Hi, what is the command that failed? @@makarai @@MRobi are you able to reproduce?
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 you should install it with package -pkg install emby-server for other method like port or using beta, you should wait to master your skills on FreeBSD
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 This is the command that is given on the download page root@:~ # pkg add -f https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz Don't really want to master BSD. This box will only ever run emby. once its running i dont want to have to think about it.
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 This is the command that is given on the download page root@:~ # pkg add -f https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz Don't really want to master BSD. This box will only ever run emby. once its running i dont want to have to think about it. then, in my opinion, you should you use : pkg install emby-server then pkg upgrade from time to time
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 pkg install emby-server This command returns: New packages to be INSTALLED: emby-server: 4.2.1.0 that's a few revisions old isn't it? Is that ok?
Luke 42077 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 then, in my opinion, you should you use : pkg install emby-server then pkg upgrade from time to time Agreed. It sounds like you just want to set it and forget it, so why choose the beta install?
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 (edited) I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta. Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot? And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there? Thanks! Edited October 18, 2019 by badfrogg
Luke 42077 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta. Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot? And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there? Thanks! https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html Let us know if this is not sufficient and we will improve the instructions. Thanks.
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta. Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot? And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there? Thanks! sysrc emby_server_enable="YES" service emby-server start to enable start and start on boot then you will be able to go to your_ip:8096
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 Yes. It is up and running now and it starts on reboot. I think the last thing is mounting and using the hard drive. FreeDBS and Emby are installed to a small SD. I have a large HDD installed for media but I think its not mounted, can't find it. I'm reading up on it now. I think it's ID is ada0.
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 Well following one of the 10 different ways the internet says to mount the hdd has killed the system. It wont even boot at all now. I wish there was an easier way to do this...
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 (edited) https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ should be the first place to look for the documentation egrep 'da[0-9]|cd[0-9]' /var/run/dmesg.boot should give you all recognized hardrive Edited October 18, 2019 by bernux
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ should be the first place to look for the documentation LOL, that link is broken. But I get what your saying. "Read the 10,000 page manual. ya noob!"
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 hyperlink corrected sorry No It was much more like : the handbook is really well done and well classified so you don't have to go on obscure website to find the response to your interrogation and you don't need to read hundreds of page
bernux 0 Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mount-unmount.html and https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html if it's a new hardrive should help you
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 No. I know. I was just making some light of my situation. I appreciate the link to the manual. The manual is certainly complete and I'm sure it is comprehensive to a computer scientist. But It is entirely overwhelming for me to even begin to know how to use it to solve this trivial and mundane task of mounting a HDD.
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 (edited) So for instance. I go to https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mount-unmount.html and read about fstab. because I want to mount a hdd with an existing ntfs partition that contains all of the media i wan to put on my emby server. It gives explanation for each parameter but I've read it three times now and dont know what to type. I know that if I add the line: but I am just guessing by looking at the other entries. /dev/ada0p1 /media ntfs rw 0 0 my system no longer boots Edited October 18, 2019 by badfrogg
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 also I could find where the manual explained what the correct fstype syntax should be for a ntfs file system. I just put "ntfs" it's just a guess..
badfrogg 1 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Posted October 18, 2019 I'll head over to the FreeBSD Forum. Maybe those guys know. Thanks for getting me this far though. I appreciate it.
badfrogg 1 Posted October 19, 2019 Author Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) Oops... Edited October 19, 2019 by badfrogg
badfrogg 1 Posted October 19, 2019 Author Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) I had embarrassed myself with a rant. I thought that no one at FreeBSD had replied to my post asking for help with mounting that hard drive. turns out that I was not being notified of the post. I was not subscribed to my own post I guess. Could have sworn that I was. They helped immensely. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/help-install-a-hdd-to-existing-11-2-system.72708/ I redacted my rant. and replaced it with "Oops" Edited October 19, 2019 by badfrogg
badfrogg 1 Posted October 20, 2019 Author Posted October 20, 2019 Well. It's all done. (I hope) The server is running. Its a sleek little box. You could slide it between two small books on a book shelf and never notice it. I can access it through SSH to manage the server and FTP to manage the media content on the storage drive. It seems to be working well with the little ROKU Express boxes I have in the house too. I even get surround sound. It was a royal pain in the ass though.
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