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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:55:06 -0500, Carmel wrote:
> I have a spare amd64 PC that I want to install FreeBSD 9.x on. I want
> it to utilize ZFS right from the start. There are two HD's in the PC.
> One will handle the "/var" partition and the other everything else. The
> last FBSD installer I used was on the 7.x branch. Does the new
> installer in the 9.x branch handle that automatically?

If you tell it to? :-)

No, honestly: The PC-BSD installer can be used to install
a normal FreeBSD system _and_ take care of ZFS initialisation.



> Would it be advantageous to run something like FreeDOS to remove the
> existing partition information, etcetera and then reformat the dives?
> They are currently formatted in Microsoft's NTFS format.

That's not needed. The installers (of FreeBSD and of PC-BSD)
can remove existing partitions in an early step.



> Also, for the 9.1 branch, I read that I have to run:
> 
> # /usr/sbin/pkg
> To bootstrap the system. I also need to place:
> WITH_PKGNG=	yes
> in the /etc/rc.conf file.

The above option doesn't look as if it belongs to /etc/rc.conf.
Instead it would probably go to /etc/make.conf.





-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...