Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:29:53 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 213488] bsdinstall wants MANIFEST from filesystem even when installing from ftp Message-ID: <bug-213488-8135-ZGe37ts28A@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-213488-8135@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-213488-8135@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D213488 Tim Chase <freebsd@tim.thechases.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |freebsd@tim.thechases.com --- Comment #11 from Tim Chase <freebsd@tim.thechases.com> --- [sorry ~3yr late to the thread, but this PR was referenced from a blog post= I was reading today] If you're soliciting other use cases in which I've used `bsdinstall` from a running system, I was trying to create a .img file with a file-backed md0 # IMG=3D/path/to/freebsd.img # truncate -s 20G $IMG # mdconfig -f $IMG -u 0 # bsdinstall # install to md0 # mdconfig -d -u 0 As a side note, at least the last time I did this, bsdinstall assumes that = it can freely and forcibly unmount any previously-mounted ZFS & GELI volumes w= hich is a problem if your existing/running system is ZFS-on-GELI: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D214911 so either you have to not install to ZFS, run bsdinstall from a UFS (possib= ly without GELI) system, or you have to comment out the "detach all ZFS & GELI volumes" code from /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot (I went with the 3rd opt= ion so I could create a ZFS-on-GELI .img file from a ZFS-on-GELI host system) With the above caveats/modifications, this creates a disk image that I can = then dd(1) to a drive (in my case, an OVH disk via the recovery console) --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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