should bsdinstall work?

[Daniel Dowse]

On Tue, 4 May 2021 20:22:35 +0100
tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> "error while fetching file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST : No such file or
> directory"
> 

Hello J.

you can try to run bsdinstall with script option. 
Create a file name it e.g rpi.bsdinstall and put


export DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz"
export
BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE="https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/13.0-RELEASE/"

bsdinstall zfsboot


inside. Then run

bsdinstall script rpi.bsdinstall 

and follow the dialog. 

This to be said, i haven't used it with ZFS but with UFS to create VM Images
(amd64) successfully this way.


Daniel


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Daniel Dowse <freebsd-ml at daemonbytes.net>