Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:00:17 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing a system onto ZFS Message-ID: <20071006125843.S21670@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> References: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au>
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: AM> Yesterday I tried to install (using the August 2007 snapshot iso) a new AM> FreeBSD system using ZFS. This is what I did: AM> AM> * boot from CD AM> * type "load ZFS" on the boot loader prompt (could this be made default for AM> FreeBSD 7 release?) AM> * drop into the live CD shell and use fdisk, disklabel and zfs to create the AM> appropriate partitions (/boot which is UFS2 and /usr /tmp /var / which are AM> ZFS). ZFS volumes are created inside ad4s1d. AM> AM> A problem is then that the installer tries to mount the partitions and AM> presumably knows nothing about the ZFS partitions I mounted within the live AM> CD shell. Is there a way to do this, or am I expecting too much of the AM> installer tool at this early stage of ZFS in FreeBSD? AM> AM> It appears that the only alternative is to install a full system onto UFS2 AM> partitions, install a second disk with ZFS volumes, copy across the data and AM> set up the boot loader on the second drive, then discard the first drive. Is AM> that what others are doing? you can run install.sh from distribution directories (actually, base and kernel are the only required). As far as I remember sysinstall never could install on an already mounted file systems set. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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