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From: Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com>
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Subject: manageBE and ZFS boot-environments WAS [Re: ZFS NAS configuration
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Dan Naumov wrote:
> Anyone else think that this combined with freebsd-update integration
> and a simplistic menu GUI for choosing the preferred boot environment
> would make an _awesome_ addition to the base system? :)

I guess freebsd-update is not a problem, should be "freebsd-update -b
<path_to_new_boot-environment>".  But I can't test this, because I can't
update STABLE with freebsd-update. ;-)

I wrote a small step-by-step example to show how stuff works:
http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/browser/manageBE/example.txt

greetings,
philipp