March 11, 2015

now it’s not there, now it is

Leave a Comment / beadm, FreeBSD, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / March 11, 2015

I started trying a Root-on-ZFS upgrade using beadm and quickly encountered an anomaly: no /usr/bin Then, it was there, then it wasn’t. I wasn’t sure of what steps I took to reproduce it. So I went through logs and eventually understood what happened. Let me show you. Here is what I did: # beadm create […]

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Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout

Leave a Comment / beadm, FreeBSD, freebsd-update, Open Source / By Dan Langille / March 11, 2015

Today I sat down to install some packages on a server I just configured for Ansible and iocage. I failed. My poudriere host runs FreeBSD 9.3 and can build for older version of FreeBSD but not newer versions. Solution: upgrade that host. I will be using beadm to allow me to keep my existing 9.3

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