From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 14:39:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F61106564A for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:39:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09018FC0C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.139] (helo=smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaU0x-0000y3-NQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:39:15 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaU0w-0005Da-2B for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:39:14 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by westmark (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 0F6632; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:42:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4E05F31B.3050603@nagual.nl> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:39:23 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valentin Bud References: <4E00EA98.1090805@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QaU0w-0005Da-2B X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (cached, score=-0.175, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.67, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_ZF 0.08) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:39:17 -0000 Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk > 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 > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "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?