Re: bsdinstall: TERM, ZFS options (was: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available)

From: vermaden <vermaden_at_interia.pl>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:48:44 UTC 
> I have never seen that question in bsdinstall, can you share
> a photograph or screenshot?

# vm console VMNAME
(...)
Starting syslogd.
Starting local daemons:
Starting primary installer on ttyu0

Welcome to FreeBSD!

Please choose the appropriate terminal type for your system.
Common console types are:
   ansi     Standard ANSI terminal
   vt100    VT100 or compatible terminal
   xterm    xterm terminal emulator (or compatible)

Console type [vt100]: 

If You hit [ENTER] here it will continue in 'vt100' mode - which is quite a 'downgrade' from 'xterm'.



> "No disks(s) present to configure"
> 
> Workaround: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287569#c3

I know how to work around those - I am sending these errors so they will be fixed so they will not hit newcomers.

From the 287569 BUG:

> 5. switch to ttyv3

I am not sure this is possible to do with 'vm console VMNAME' under 'vm-bhyve' connection that uses cu(1) command to attach to Serial Console ...





Temat: bsdinstall: TERM, ZFS options (was: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available)
Data: 2025-09-28 4:23
Nadawca: "Graham Perrin" &lt;grahamperrin@gmail.com>
Adresat: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" &lt;freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>; 

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> > On 27/09/2025 23:49, vermaden wrote:
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>> The 256MB vRAM install fails …
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> …
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>> … at first boot installer asks what TERM I want&nbsp;…
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> I have never seen that question in bsdinstall, can you share a 
> photograph or screenshot?
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>> … started that bsdinstall(8) again - this time in 'vt100' mode - I
was unable to change the ZFS options from 'compression=on' to
'compression=zstd' …
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> (Without the vt100 aspect) I can not reproduce an inability to change 
> the option.
> 
> I can change the option, then there's a different issue (unrelated to 
> the option):
> 
> "No disks(s) present to configure"
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> Workaround:

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