On 17/08/2025 01:55, Graham Perrin wrote to freebsd-pkgbase:
Subject: Using pkgbasify to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD
14.3-RELEASE
<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/9570092c127bd43777961b6f016e75ba>
The routine is effective, to the best of my knowledge, however it's not
particularly attractive. At least:
- the condensed steps will be too long for some users
- the first step assumes that the operator will have local access
and a USB memory stick.
I love this response to the Foundation's recent Community Check-In:
> … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as
some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote
machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is always
a problem.
<https://witter.cz/@klokanek/115083259795252616>
An enhancement to bsdinstall could, before creation of the partition
table, allow the user to specify an amount of space to be left free at
the end of a device …
