Re: should bsdinstall work?
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 04:37:12PM +0200, Daniel Dowse wrote: Hello J. you can try to run bsdinstall with script option. Create a file name it e.g rpi.bsdinstall and put export DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz" export BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE="https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/13.0-RELEASE/; bsdinstall zfsboot inside. Then run bsdinstall script rpi.bsdinstall and follow the dialog. This to be said, i haven't used it with ZFS but with UFS to create VM Images (amd64) successfully this way. Hi Daniel, thanks for yr input. Managed to get a little further with your instructions, but now the error is "no root partition found. The root FreeBSD partition must have a mountpoint of '/'". This happens after the disk is selected to install zfs-on-root If I remove the zfs element from the script, re-run it then select auto ufs, it gets a little further then fails at the point where it wants to alter the MBR, with the same error message. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. What I really need is an installer. As far as I can tell, the only things available for arm64.aarch64 for the rpi4 are bootable images - ie without installer. -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: should bsdinstall work?
On Tue, 4 May 2021 20:22:35 +0100 tech-lists wrote: > "error while fetching file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST : No such file or > directory" > Hello J. you can try to run bsdinstall with script option. Create a file name it e.g rpi.bsdinstall and put export DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz" export BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE="https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/13.0-RELEASE/; bsdinstall zfsboot inside. Then run bsdinstall script rpi.bsdinstall and follow the dialog. This to be said, i haven't used it with ZFS but with UFS to create VM Images (amd64) successfully this way. Daniel -- Daniel Dowse ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: should bsdinstall work?
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 02:37:30PM -0700, Mark Millard via freebsd-current wrote: As I remember, I had to use bsdinstall's DISTRIBUTIONS environment variable to pick what to download in order to get MANIFEST to download. Otherwise I got just the 2 files (base.txz and kernel.txz) and the complaint that you report. Thanks Mark, setting DISTRIBUTIONS env var is next on the list -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: should bsdinstall work?
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 04:48:13AM +0100, tech-lists wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 07:33:40PM -0700, Chris wrote: Doesn't bsdinstall allow choosing different means of fetching the dist files? iirc it gives an ftp list. I tried with ftp.uk and ftp.de.freebsd.org. Last I remember using it, I was able to choose ftp http(s), etc... Making, or using an already matched MANIFEST is fairly trivial. i'll try downloading a matched manifest by hand, next. Thanks for the tip. Clarified there's no http/https in the download list, just ftp urls I tried running bsdinstall in one console and fetch in another root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # fetch ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/14.0-CURRENT/MANIFEST MANIFEST 782 B 2145 kBps 00s root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # fetch ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/14.0-CURRENT/MANIFEST fetch: MANIFEST: stat() root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # fetch ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/14.0-CURRENT/MANIFEST fetch: MANIFEST: stat() root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # bsdinstall bails with the error. then: root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # ls -lah ls: .: Not a directory root@generic:/mnt/usr/freebsd-dist # clearly theres an issue with the bsdinstaller unmounting the chroot at /mnt at the wrong point. If bsdinstall *should* work, I'll raise a PR looking at man 8 bsdinstall, theres loads of parameters I can set, and there's also logging. will read all this before making a PR. -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: should bsdinstall work?
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 07:33:40PM -0700, Chris wrote: Doesn't bsdinstall allow choosing different means of fetching the dist files? iirc it gives an ftp list. I tried with ftp.uk and ftp.de.freebsd.org. Last I remember using it, I was able to choose ftp http(s), etc... Making, or using an already matched MANIFEST is fairly trivial. i'll try downloading a matched manifest by hand, next. Thanks for the tip. -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: should bsdinstall work?
On 2021-05-04 18:58, tech-lists wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 04:35:17PM -0400, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Where are you trying to install to? Usually the assumption is that the microsd images *are* the installed system rather than a tool you use to install a system. I'm trying to install -current (or stable/13 or releng/13.0) to a bootable usb3-connected external hd on raspberry pi 4 hardware. The goal is to have this pi booting without microsd to a root-on-zfs system. I have used raspios 64-bit to update its firmware and configured it so it tries to boot the microsd card and if this fails, boots to usb3. Took out that card, wrote FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210415-14d0cd7225e-246078.img to another and booted it, then ran bsdinstall and selected the external hd. The install fails to progress beyond the point I mentioned. Maybe another wau of doing it would be to just write FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210415-14d0cd7225e-246078.img to the hd from my freebsd desktop. Would that method be expected to work? The thing is, I want root-on-zfs *and* booting with no microsd. Just writing the .img to the hd would mean i'd have to abandon zfs. Doesn't bsdinstall allow choosing different means of fetching the dist files? Last I remember using it, I was able to choose ftp http(s), etc... Making, or using an already matched MANIFEST is fairly trivial. You could obtain your desired base files and create or use the one with it. Then point bsdinstall to somewhere to get them. If you need a remote. I could give you one to use. HTH --Chris ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: should bsdinstall work?
Hi, On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 04:35:17PM -0400, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Where are you trying to install to? Usually the assumption is that the microsd images *are* the installed system rather than a tool you use to install a system. I'm trying to install -current (or stable/13 or releng/13.0) to a bootable usb3-connected external hd on raspberry pi 4 hardware. The goal is to have this pi booting without microsd to a root-on-zfs system. I have used raspios 64-bit to update its firmware and configured it so it tries to boot the microsd card and if this fails, boots to usb3. Took out that card, wrote FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210415-14d0cd7225e-246078.img to another and booted it, then ran bsdinstall and selected the external hd. The install fails to progress beyond the point I mentioned. Maybe another wau of doing it would be to just write FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210415-14d0cd7225e-246078.img to the hd from my freebsd desktop. Would that method be expected to work? The thing is, I want root-on-zfs *and* booting with no microsd. Just writing the .img to the hd would mean i'd have to abandon zfs. -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: should bsdinstall work?
tech-lists tech-lists at zyxst.net wrote on Tue May 4 19:22:39 UTC 2021 : > I've been trying to set up a boot-from-usb3 raspberry pi 4. I thought > i'd be able to do this by booting into latest current snapshot image for > arm64 rpi (written to microsd), and then running bsdinstall as root. I've done something similar, deliberately making the root file system ZFS based to experiment with bectl usage and to have GPT instead of MBR, for example. Even when other things work, do not expect bsdinstall to deal with the RPi firmware or u-boot in the msdos file system partition. I copied those over separately. > I can select the auto-zfs option then select the usb3 disk as > installation destination. The bsdinstall selects the sets and downloads > them, but then get the error: > > "error while fetching > file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST > : No such file or > directory" As I remember, I had to use bsdinstall's DISTRIBUTIONS environment variable to pick what to download in order to get MANIFEST to download. Otherwise I got just the 2 files (base.txz and kernel.txz) and the complaint that you report. Ultimately I picked to get more than just base.txz and kernel.txz as well. I'll note that: http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arm64/13.0-RELEASE/ has the MANIFIEST file available. As does: http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/14.0-CURRENT/ Unfortrunately, there has not been a successful snapshot build for arm64/aarch64 or arm/armv7 recently. So there are no .../13.0-STABLE/ examples yet. Another place to stable-13 materials is paths matching: https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/stable-13/*/arm64/aarch64/ that have MANIFEST and *.txz files. For example, https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/stable-13/d6d039ea74a26357173d1263682d4f5119037434/arm64/aarch64/ has a snapshot as of one of today's commits. When looking in such folders, be sure to check the dates on the files: they might be older than the parent directory dates suggest. Sometimes one finds the directory is empty despite the arm64/aarch64/ level being created.) There is also: https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/stable-11/ https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/stable-12/ https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/ and aliases based on names like 13.0-STABLE and head . > also tried via release/13 image, same error. Looks like it's downloading > the files but then the installer can't see them, something like that. > > the downloaded files are there: > > > root at generic > :~ # ls -lah /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/ > total 187454 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4B Apr 9 06:51 . > drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 6B Apr 9 06:50 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 158M Apr 9 06:51 base.txz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel25M Apr 9 06:51 kernel.txz Yea, without DISTRIBUTIONS it seemed to grab just the 2 files without also getting MANIFEST. Or at least that is my memory of how it went. I used DISTRIBUTIONS to get more files and so also got MANIFEST. You can also put the files in place separately and tell bsdinstall to look in a file:///path that you type as I remember. file:///usr/freebsd-dist could be an example. > root at generic > :~ # > > worth submitting a PR? or is bsdinstall legacy and I need to use some > other method. I've not tried releng/12.2 yet. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: should bsdinstall work?
Yes, it should work just fine; however, we don't provision the microsd images for the installer, especially for -CURRENT. The actual OS is fetched in plaintext to allow caching and the MANIFEST files are what provides authentication -- they provide the checksums of the files that get fetched so that they can be verified against corruption and tampering. For snapshots, the current version changes all the time and that doesn't work; it also means that network-install media have to be set up with those checksums in advance. Where are you trying to install to? Usually the assumption is that the microsd images *are* the installed system rather than a tool you use to install a system. -Nathan On 5/4/21 3:22 PM, tech-lists wrote: Hi, I've been trying to set up a boot-from-usb3 raspberry pi 4. I thought i'd be able to do this by booting into latest current snapshot image for arm64 rpi (written to microsd), and then running bsdinstall as root. I can select the auto-zfs option then select the usb3 disk as installation destination. The bsdinstall selects the sets and downloads them, but then get the error: "error while fetching file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST : No such file or directory" also tried via release/13 image, same error. Looks like it's downloading the files but then the installer can't see them, something like that. the downloaded files are there: root@generic:~ # ls -lah /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/ total 187454 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4B Apr 9 06:51 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 6B Apr 9 06:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 158M Apr 9 06:51 base.txz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25M Apr 9 06:51 kernel.txz root@generic:~ # worth submitting a PR? or is bsdinstall legacy and I need to use some other method. I've not tried releng/12.2 yet. thanks, ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
