Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:29:29 -0600 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing to RaidZ-1 Message-ID: <861syg5z7a.fsf@WorkBox.homestead.org> In-Reply-To: <e611c60c-9722-57d7-4261-b41afa8bb4ac@columbus.rr.com> References: <e611c60c-9722-57d7-4261-b41afa8bb4ac@columbus.rr.com>
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Baho Utot writes: > I want to reinstall my desktop system using a raidz-1 filesystem using > the current installation image for usb drive. Reading the handbook I > find that bsdinstall will not do the installation I want. I am using 4 > 1TB drives and I want to partition to 800GB and install the raidz > there. Can I create a raidz storage pool manually and then use > bsdinstall or will I have to manually install freebsd not using bsdinstall? > > How do I do this? When the installer reaches the disk partitioning stage, it will present you with a list of options, one of which is "Shell." This will drop you to a shell instance where you can manually create your partitions and your zpool. A brief message will appear when you first enter the shell with basic instructions: 1. Mount your custom partitions with /mnt as the root of the system. In this case, use the `-R /mnt` flag when creating the pool so your new root ZFS filesystem is mounted there. 2. Create a custom fstab file and place it in /bsdinstall_etc. I'm not sure how necessary this is if you aren't using fstab to mount any ZFS filesystems; that is, I don't know if the installer will try to stick its own fstab into the installed system if a custom one isn't present. Once you exit the shell the installer will proceed as normal: installing everything to the mounted disks/filesystems, adding users, etc. After the installation, you'll want to choose the option to drop to a shell again in order to edit /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf, make sure no invalid fstab file has been installed (if necessary) and set the "bootfs=" property on your new pool. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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