Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:57 +1000 From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing a system onto ZFS Message-ID: <696B381F-4A7F-4397-9E3B-5D3C820909DA@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org> References: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org>
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On 06/10/2007, at 5:26 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: > What I do is install a minimal system into the UFS root (ad4s1a or > whatever, to become the boot partition). Then I create the ZFS > volumes from within, mounted on a temporary mount-point and copy > over the whole contents of the minimum installation. [snip... lot's more helpful instructions about getting ZFS working from sysinstall] We took your instructions, refined them a little, and assembled this page: http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs Hopefully they will help people who want to get FreeBSD 7 installed and running under ZFS. It really isn't hard once you get your head around the /boot /bootdir thing. Please let me know if there is anything that can be improved, and if any part of this is useful to go into the FreeBSD docs I'd be happy for it to be of use. Thanks again for your help, Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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