installed FreeBSD from mfsbsd, but cannot update

[Antonio Olivares]

On Friday, September 4, 2020, David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com>
wrote:
> On 2020-09-04 08:36, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>
>> Dear kind FreeBSD users,
>>
>> I have installed freebsd 12.1-RELEASE from mfsbsd
>
> I assume mfsbsd meets its author's needs.  If it does not meet your
needs, perhaps your should contact the author:
>
> https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/
>
>
> Or, perhaps you should use an official FreeBSD installer:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/announce.html
>
>
> For "Partitioning", choose "Auto (ZFS)" and you will be able to set the
swap size.
>
>
> As there is no obvious way to set the boot or root sizes, consider
installing onto a small SSD -- to facilitate backups, restores, and
migrations.  I find that 16 GB devices are sufficient for lightweight
graphical workstations.
>
>
>> with ZFS and I
>> configured SWAP like I wanted to 4GB of SWAP or 2G is not enough.  I
>> have experience many crashes.
>
> If your machine is swapping heavily, you need more memory.
>
>
>> I try to run # freebsd-update fetch and it fails
>
> Please consider this:
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
> Technical support requires facts.  Always install SSH, so that you can
use ssh(1) and/or sshfs(1).  If SSH fails, use a USB flash drive and
"sneaker net".  As a last resort, use a camera and transcribe.  Copy and
paste exact and complete console sessions into support requests and replies
-- prompt, command entered, and output obtained.
>
>
> David
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Dear Sir,

I appreciate your help.  I could not get it to work because one partition
needs to be root "/" and it was named "zfs-root" or similar.  I will have
to try again. I had installed before using mfsbsd, but I used guided and
autozfs and swap was 2 or 4 GB, but en I tried to build rust for firefox I
ran out of swap space.  Machine has 8GB of ram, but nonetheless crashed.
 I wanted to create a 16 GB swap partition to build rust Firefox and other
power hungry apps that require it.  I erased the hard drive several times
and in the end I blew the hardrivw and machine does not power up with the
hard drive.  So I will need to get another disk and try again.  I ran tests
and hard drive passed on to the /dev/null .
 Thank you for your help.

Best Regards,


Antonio