Re: should bsdinstall work?

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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.



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.

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 '/'".

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