Sometimes you just need that old version. So I installed it. FreeBSD 9.3
Sorry, but this article is light. I stopped taking notes after a bit….
We created a VM via VMware, put FreeBSD 11.1 on it, over ZFS. Then install iocage.
This is what it looked like:
$ sudo iocage fetch Setting up zpool [zroot] for iocage usage If you wish to change please use "iocage activate" ******************************************************************************** fdescfs(5) is not mounted, performance may suffer. Please run: mount -t fdescfs null /dev/fd You can also permanently mount it in /etc/fstab with the following entry: fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 ******************************************************************************** Creating zroot/iocage Creating zroot/iocage/download Creating zroot/iocage/images Creating zroot/iocage/jails Creating zroot/iocage/log Creating zroot/iocage/releases Creating zroot/iocage/templates [0] 9.3-RELEASE (EOL) [1] 10.1-RELEASE (EOL) [2] 10.2-RELEASE (EOL) [3] 10.3-RELEASE [4] 10.4-RELEASE [5] 11.0-RELEASE (EOL) [6] 11.1-RELEASE Type the number of the desired RELEASE Press [Enter] to fetch the default selection: (11.1-RELEASE) Type EXIT to quit: 9.3-RELEASE Fetching: 9.3-RELEASE Downloading : MANIFEST [####################] 100% Downloading : base.txz [####################] 100% 5.32Mbit/s Downloading : lib32.txz [####################] 100% 5.01Mbit/s Downloading : doc.txz [####################] 100% 4.86Mbit/s Downloading : src.txz [####################] 100% 7.03Mbit/s 7.03Mbit/sExtracting: base.txz... Extracting: lib32.txz... Extracting: doc.txz... Extracting: src.txz... * Updating 9.3-RELEASE to the latest patch level... src component not installed, skipped Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 2 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 790 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220....230....240....250....260....270....280....290....300....310....320....330....340....350....360....370....380....390....400....410....420....430....440....450....460....470....480....490....500....510....520....530....540....550....560....570....580....590....600....610....620....630....640....650....660....670....680....690....700....710....720....730....740....750....760....770....780....790 done. Applying patches... done. Fetching 136 files... done. The following files will be removed as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p53: /usr/share/doc/ntp/driver1.html /usr/share/doc/ntp/driver10.html /usr/share/doc/ntp/driver11.html .... /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kashgar /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Rangoon The following files will be added as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p53: /usr/include/stdalign.h /usr/include/stdatomic.h /usr/include/stdnoreturn.h /usr/share/doc/ntp/access.html /usr/share/doc/ntp/authentic.html .... /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kirov /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Ulyanovsk /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Bougainville The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p53: /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist /etc/ntp.conf /lib/libbsdxml.so.4 /lib/libc.so.7 /lib/libcrypt.so.5 .... /var/db/etcupdate/current/etc/ntp.conf /var/db/etcupdate/log /var/db/mergemaster.mtree WARNING: FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. Any security issues discovered after Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2017 will not have been corrected. src component not installed, skipped Installing updates... done. $
What did it just install? This:
$ zfs list -r zroot/iocage NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot/iocage 825M 30.2G 25K /iocage zroot/iocage/download 180M 30.2G 23K /iocage/download zroot/iocage/download/9.3-RELEASE 180M 30.2G 180M /iocage/download/9.3-RELEASE zroot/iocage/images 23K 30.2G 23K /iocage/images zroot/iocage/jails 23K 30.2G 23K /iocage/jails zroot/iocage/log 23K 30.2G 23K /iocage/log zroot/iocage/releases 645M 30.2G 23K /iocage/releases zroot/iocage/releases/9.3-RELEASE 645M 30.2G 23K /iocage/releases/9.3-RELEASE zroot/iocage/releases/9.3-RELEASE/root 645M 30.2G 645M /iocage/releases/9.3-RELEASE/root zroot/iocage/templates 23K 30.2G 23K /iocage/templates
Creating the jail
In this case, I wanted the jail to have the same IP address as the host:
$ sudo iocage create -u foo ip4_addr="10.11.204.133" --release=9.3-RELEASE ******************************************************************************** fdescfs(5) is not mounted, performance may suffer. Please run: mount -t fdescfs null /dev/fd You can also permanently mount it in /etc/fstab with the following entry: fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 ******************************************************************************** foo successfully created!
And that’s where I stopped taking notes, but it’s up and running now.
