Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:39:23 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS system Message-ID: <4E05F31B.3050603@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik%2Bk8jPV2N2Ge_PjOx3%2BA7NCUe4_Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E00EA98.1090805@nagual.nl> <BANLkTik%2Bk8jPV2N2Ge_PjOx3%2BA7NCUe4_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl > <mailto:dick@nagual.nl>> wrote: > > OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an > ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. > However, I have one question: > > I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror > In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but > how's this in this situation> After all, an UFS partitin is also > created. How can I get the equivalent of an OpenSolaris mirrored > install for a FreeBSD system? > > Hope I phrased the question clearly enough. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > Hello Community, > > Like others said in their answer to your question, you don't have to > put /boot on UFS, just go with root on ZFS. > If you would like speed when installing the system I recommend mfsBSD > - http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/. As pointed out > in the web page there is a script (zfsinstall) that does all the work > for you. It does all the steps described in the > wiki - http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror. > > If you want to gain knowledge about the process of installing FreeBSD > with root on ZFS then go with the wiki > article. Using mfsBSD I install a 8.2-STABLE custom system in under 5 > seconds. That's pretty neat :). OK, I tried mfsbsd. I had the iso loaded at ata1 master and freebsd-8.2-dvd as ata1 slave. I booted my VM; mfsbsd came up fine. I mounted my fbsd dvd drive on /cdrom and tried to run the zfsinstall script. Alas, it refuses.. It can't find the (needed!) 8.2-RELEASE.???tgz file It does not exist. There is only a directory 8.2-RELEASE (on DVD as well as on CDROM ). Question: is this a bug in zfsinstall script? How do I work around it?
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