From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 09:00:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6A616A421 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B202E13C45B for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:00:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9690HVp048019; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:00:17 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:00:17 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Aristedes Maniatis In-Reply-To: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> Message-ID: <20071006125843.S21670@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:00:17 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing a system onto ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:00:21 -0000 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 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------