My goal is to make an easy way to upgrade with beadm by using the idea found in this post. I had a problem with my first attempt which I solved with the details in this post. boot mfsBSD This tool has very quickly become one of my favorites. I like how easy it is […]
Fixing the system/bootenv/default/usr to be mounted Read More »
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
now it’s not there, now it is Read More »
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
Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout Read More »