Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:03:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install Message-ID: <20130128140349.7aee4be6.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP4490AA5B4BAE0C642F7D64593180@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP4490AA5B4BAE0C642F7D64593180@phx.gbl>
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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, ...
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