Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:58:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <seklecki@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer Message-ID: <1001036116.730501250265523013.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1250265019.2306.35.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com>
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> No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even > have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use > sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you > need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the installation process as easy and complete as possible. If bootstrapping a system using the livefs file system is possible, then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. Yes, a higher-level sysadmin can do it...but the vast majority of people who administer servers for a living are not higher-level sysadmins. Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz tjg@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354
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