Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Quoting Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net (from Mon, 30 May 2011 11:01:06 -0400): --As of May 29, 2011 9:10:57 AM -0400, George Kontostanos, freebsd-current@freebsd.org is alleged to have said: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at : http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) --As for the rest, it is mine. Ok, I've tried shell mode and live CD mode. I've re-partitioned my disks several different ways. Nothing gets me a system that will actually boot. Or even recognize that there is an OS loaded anywhere. Help? I did it like this: http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/ (My preferred partitioning: ada1: 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-swap 8G 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. You show the boot partition on ada1, but you do not tell if ada0 has a boot partition too or not. Did you try to have the boot partition on the same disk as the pool? I hope ada1 is a SSD. If not, it does not make much sense to have a cache there (a cache needs to have lower latency than the main pool, I do not expect that just another spindle gives a significant perf improvement). Bye, Alexander. -- Please don't put a strain on our friendship by asking me to do something for you. http://www.Leidinger.netAlexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 29, 2011 9:10:57 AM -0400, George Kontostanos, freebsd-current@freebsd.org is alleged to have said: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at : http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) --As for the rest, it is mine. Ok, I've tried shell mode and live CD mode. I've re-partitioned my disks several different ways. Nothing gets me a system that will actually boot. Or even recognize that there is an OS loaded anywhere. Help? (My preferred partitioning: ada1: 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-swap 8G 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. This takes advantage of the mSATA SSD in ada1.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Could you please explain where did you actually got stacked ?
Have you installed the OS by :
for file in base.txz lib32.txz kernel.txz doc.txz ports.txz src.txz;
do (cat $file | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C ${DESTDIR:-/}); done
Did you copy zpool.cache ?
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of May 29, 2011 9:10:57 AM -0400, George Kontostanos,
freebsd-current@freebsd.org is alleged to have said:
--As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to
have said:
The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't
work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at :
http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132;
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this
point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to
use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?)
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Ok, I've tried shell mode and live CD mode. I've re-partitioned my disks
several different ways.
Nothing gets me a system that will actually boot. Or even recognize that
there is an OS loaded anywhere. Help?
(My preferred partitioning:
ada1:
1 freebsd-boot
2 freebsd-swap 8G
3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil)
4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache)
ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem.
This takes advantage of the mSATA SSD in ada1.)
Daniel T. Staal
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Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 30, 2011 6:11:19 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to
have said:
Could you please explain where did you actually got stacked ?
Have you installed the OS by :
for file in base.txz lib32.txz kernel.txz doc.txz ports.txz src.txz;
do (cat $file | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C ${DESTDIR:-/}); done
Did you copy zpool.cache ?
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Did both of those. A half-dozen times. ;)
The machine fails to find a bootable drive. It searches, tries PXE booting
a couple of times, then dumps me into the BIOS's boot drive chooser. I can
try selecting either of the internal drives at that point if I wish, and it
will just loop back to there.
Daniel T. Staal
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Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
I suppose that you didn't forget to add a boot code to your boot disk(s) ?
gpart bootcode -b boot/pmbr -p boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of May 30, 2011 6:11:19 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to
have said:
Could you please explain where did you actually got stacked ?
Have you installed the OS by :
for file in base.txz lib32.txz kernel.txz doc.txz ports.txz src.txz;
do (cat $file | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C ${DESTDIR:-/}); done
Did you copy zpool.cache ?
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Did both of those. A half-dozen times. ;)
The machine fails to find a bootable drive. It searches, tries PXE booting
a couple of times, then dumps me into the BIOS's boot drive chooser. I can
try selecting either of the internal drives at that point if I wish, and it
will just loop back to there.
Daniel T. Staal
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Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 30, 2011 6:29:06 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: I suppose that you didn't forget to add a boot code to your boot disk(s) ? gpart bootcode -b boot/pmbr -p boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 --As for the rest, it is mine. Nope, I got that. Although that line as written threw errors. I used: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1 (Normally I was installing the boot code to the mSATA drive, as it was the one I was partitioning.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Sorry about the typos. The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from. I see that you have: ada1: 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-swap 8G 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot from ada0 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 30, 2011 6:29:06 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: I suppose that you didn't forget to add a boot code to your boot disk(s) ? gpart bootcode -b boot/pmbr -p boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 --As for the rest, it is mine. Nope, I got that. Although that line as written threw errors. I used: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1 (Normally I was installing the boot code to the mSATA drive, as it was the one I was partitioning.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
On 29.05.11 16:10, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) Actually, you don't need to go via the trouble to make /boot writable. You can obtain zpool.cache by using zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot Then copy that file to the mounted root filesystem of the zpool. Daniel ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Thanks, I will reproduce it and update the guide. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 29.05.11 16:10, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) Actually, you don't need to go via the trouble to make /boot writable. You can obtain zpool.cache by using zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot Then copy that file to the mounted root filesystem of the zpool. Daniel ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 30, 2011 6:47:32 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from. I see that you have: ada1: 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-swap 8G 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot from ada0 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 --As for the rest, it is mine. I said that was my preferred partitioning. I had tried others. ;) I just double-checked putting the bootcode on ada0. It doesn't help. (Note that if it did that'd be an interesting regression from 8.2. My home server is running with *only* the bootcode on one drive, and the OS loaded from a ZFS RAIDZ array.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Could you please post the output of: gpart show On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 30, 2011 6:47:32 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from. I see that you have: ada1: 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-swap 8G 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot from ada0 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 --As for the rest, it is mine. I said that was my preferred partitioning. I had tried others. ;) I just double-checked putting the bootcode on ada0. It doesn't help. (Note that if it did that'd be an interesting regression from 8.2. My home server is running with *only* the bootcode on one drive, and the OS loaded from a ZFS RAIDZ array.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
*zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot can not import /tmp/zpool.cache no such pool available * Well, it seems that -c switch is for specifying where to read from and not where to write. I haven't been able to import the pool and find a way to store zpool.cache in a diffrent place other than /boot/zfs On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 29.05.11 16:10, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) Actually, you don't need to go via the trouble to make /boot writable. You can obtain zpool.cache by using zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot Then copy that file to the mounted root filesystem of the zpool. Daniel ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
George Kontostanos gkontos.m...@gmail.com writes: *zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot can not import /tmp/zpool.cache no such pool available Try modifying pool's property: $ zpool import -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache zroot Well, it seems that -c switch is for specifying where to read from and not where to write. I haven't been able to import the pool and find a way to store zpool.cache in a diffrent place other than /boot/zfs ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Bingo! That did it. I will update the guide soon. @Daniel my apologies it seems that another typo is preventing you from booting. You have to set the bootfs in the pool. zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Pan Tsu iny...@gmail.com wrote: George Kontostanos gkontos.m...@gmail.com writes: *zpool import -c /tmp/zpool.cache zroot can not import /tmp/zpool.cache no such pool available Try modifying pool's property: $ zpool import -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache zroot Well, it seems that -c switch is for specifying where to read from and not where to write. I haven't been able to import the pool and find a way to store zpool.cache in a diffrent place other than /boot/zfs -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 31, 2011 1:21:49 AM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: Bingo! That did it. I will update the guide soon. @Daniel my apologies it seems that another typo is preventing you from booting. You have to set the bootfs in the pool. zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot --As for the rest, it is mine. I'd actually caught that one... (Yesterday afternoon.) I was hoping this was something people had seen before. At this point, I've been trying to get a FreeBSD+ZFS install on this box for about a month - including spending much of my first vacation in two years on it - and I know that even if I do manage to do so I'll still have a problem with the screen resolution. (Sandy Bridge integrated graphics. It works in VERSA mode, but doesn't detect the native mode.) I've decided to call it quits for now. A current Linux runs fine. The power management isn't as good as FreeBSD, I'm loosing the ZFS coolness, and the other advantages of a FreeBSD box over Linux, but it means I've got a working laptop for the moment. I'll revisit putting FreeBSD on it sometime in the future, once the hardware isn't quite so current-edge. For now, I've invested too much time into just getting this running. George, a couple other notes on your walkthrough: (I'd decided to wait until I was done to go over all of these.) cd /tmp copy -R * /boot# Needs to be cp. zpool create -O mountpoint=/mnt zroot /dev/gpt/disk0 # Will avoid the export/import later. And in theory it doesn't make *much* difference, but setting the checksum before creating usr, var, and tmp is slightly better practice. (The directory entries are checksummed as well, which would be the only difference. If any files were created in between they'd get the fletcher2 checksum.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
oops typos, typos! That's one of the bad things that happens when you type without having the copy - paste functionality. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 31, 2011 1:21:49 AM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: Bingo! That did it. I will update the guide soon. @Daniel my apologies it seems that another typo is preventing you from booting. You have to set the bootfs in the pool. zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot --As for the rest, it is mine. I'd actually caught that one... (Yesterday afternoon.) I was hoping this was something people had seen before. At this point, I've been trying to get a FreeBSD+ZFS install on this box for about a month - including spending much of my first vacation in two years on it - and I know that even if I do manage to do so I'll still have a problem with the screen resolution. (Sandy Bridge integrated graphics. It works in VERSA mode, but doesn't detect the native mode.) I've decided to call it quits for now. A current Linux runs fine. The power management isn't as good as FreeBSD, I'm loosing the ZFS coolness, and the other advantages of a FreeBSD box over Linux, but it means I've got a working laptop for the moment. I'll revisit putting FreeBSD on it sometime in the future, once the hardware isn't quite so current-edge. For now, I've invested too much time into just getting this running. George, a couple other notes on your walkthrough: (I'd decided to wait until I was done to go over all of these.) cd /tmp copy -R * /boot# Needs to be cp. zpool create -O mountpoint=/mnt zroot /dev/gpt/disk0 # Will avoid the export/import later. And in theory it doesn't make *much* difference, but setting the checksum before creating usr, var, and tmp is slightly better practice. (The directory entries are checksummed as well, which would be the only difference. If any files were created in between they'd get the fletcher2 checksum.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
on 29/05/2011 07:08 Scott Lambert said the following: If you want to end up with a mirrored ZFS only setup, have you seen ? http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ That one was pretty straight-forward for me. You get to use sysinstall and don't have to manually install the OS. There is no sysinstall :-) [in the latest CURRENT] -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at : http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; Regards On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 29/05/2011 07:08 Scott Lambert said the following: If you want to end up with a mirrored ZFS only setup, have you seen ? http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ That one was pretty straight-forward for me. You get to use sysinstall and don't have to manually install the OS. There is no sysinstall :-) [in the latest CURRENT] -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
--As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at : http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Last time I checked it was practically the same. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of May 29, 2011 12:06:30 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: The new bsdinstall has a different layout so the previous guides don't work. I have prepared one that works for recent 9-Current at : http://www.aisecure.net/?p=132; --As for the rest, it is mine. Thanks, that's about what I expected the install procedure to be at this point. Nice to have the reminder about the zpool.cache. (Do I have to use the Live CD mode? Can I use shell mode instead?) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net http://www.aisecure.net ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
Ok, I think I've figured this out, but I want some confirmation before I start playing with actual hardware... The install steps on http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot no longer appear to apply. The /dist/ directory doesn't exist on any of the current snapshots, so the actual install process given in that page can't work. Am I correct in guessing that the /usr/freebsd_dist/ directory has replaced it in some form? Also, instead of sub-folders with install scripts, there are tarballs, which I assume are extracted over the new filesystem? Then any necessary pre-boot configuration would be done. (Anything special need mention beyond what is on the page above?) If there's a doc someplace on this, feel free to point me to it. I just want a sanity-check before I dive in headfirst... Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:16:37PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: Ok, I think I've figured this out, but I want some confirmation before I start playing with actual hardware... The install steps on http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot no longer appear to apply. The /dist/ directory doesn't exist on any of the current snapshots, so the actual install process given in that page can't work. snip If there's a doc someplace on this, feel free to point me to it. I just want a sanity-check before I dive in headfirst... If you want to end up with a mirrored ZFS only setup, have you seen ? http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ That one was pretty straight-forward for me. You get to use sysinstall and don't have to manually install the OS. -- Scott LambertKC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lamb...@lambertfam.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
