Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:59:44 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs booting feedback Message-ID: <20120712035944.GA28500@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <A5544CFF-14B5-4E78-9360-02CA3915CF3F@distal.com> References: <20120708025435.GA12487@pix.net> <A5544CFF-14B5-4E78-9360-02CA3915CF3F@distal.com>
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:31:35PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 22:54 , Kurt Lidl wrote: > > I built a full 9.0-stable distribution on Friday night, and got to play > > with installing it on a spare Netra T1-105 today. Mostly I was > > interested in testing out the integrated ZFS boot support that > > was commited recently. > > > > First of all -- it works! Thanks very much to all who made it possible! > > On this front, I'm trying to find a FreeBSD sparc64 stable build to install > on a v240 I have for testing. I've not found it easily by googling, so if > someone on the list could point me to sparc64 nightly's of the 9.0-STABLE > branch, or if you. Kurt, could make the ISO you built and have working > available, I'd very much appreciate it. > > I'm looking forward to experimenting with FreeBSD sparc64, and zfs. > I'm a zfs newbie. :-) I put the iso I built, along with a checksum file for it, and the script that I used for installing all the bit here: http://www.pix.net/ftp/pub/freebsd/ You might want to fiddle with the size of the ZFS partition that the script creates. I have Sun "18GB" drives, so I just told it use 12GB as ZFS, and the rest as swap. -Kurt
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