So I've been having a bear of a time for the past week (on and off) trying to install BOINC-Client into a FreeNAS 9.3 Jail. I have found many ways to fail but not a single way to succeed. I have performed several internet searches for instructions on how to install BOINC-Client into FreeBSD and there are only a few but they are all rather old (2007/2009) but I did try them.

Here is what I've done so far...
So thinking I should upgrade my ports collection and do a "make install clean", well that leads to issues with a kernel compatibility issue so I tried something different and decided not to update the ports, then I got considerably further, well up to the point that "orc" could not be patched because there was a mismatch in version numbers. Truth be told, even though it doesn't sound like much, it took me 2 weeks to get this far. Then I figured why not see if the boinc-client wasn't already a package so I did the pkg_add -r boinc-client and to my surprise, it all installed. I was very happy until I tried to actually do something.

So trying to configure it failed, the file locations according to the old online docs were a bust, trying to run it ran into errors. Arg!

So why am I even attempting this you ask? I've been running BOINC on my windoze machine for too many years and I have a FreeNAS computer which sits around burning up power and not doing a whole lot. I'd like to put BOINC on this device and then turn off my main computer or sleep it when not in use.

I have one other option which I have yet to try, in FreeNAS 9.3 there is a Jail template for Virtualbox. I wanted to keep things simply using a FreeBSD jail but I may be forced into using a different OS. This would likely add additional processing overhead, something else I wanted to avoid.

So if someone either has some advice or could point me to some instructions that work on FreeBSD 9, I'd appreciate it.