Support #766
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 8 years ago
This is a guide on how I manually setup FreeBSD with a UFS root, without the help of a GUI or bsdinstall. This guide is intended to install FreeBSD using the installation DVD and will work offline. * When the FreeBSD Installer Welcome message appears, choose *Shell*. * Create the slices: <pre> gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -b 40 -s 512K -l gpboot -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart add -s 4G -t freebsd-swap -a 1M -l swap0 ada0 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 1M -l disk0 ada0 </pre> * Create a new file system on the new UFS partition: <pre> newfs -U /dev/ada0p3 </pre> * Mount the UFS partition to the temporary mount directory: <pre> mkdir /tmp/mnt mount /dev/ada0p3 /tmp/mnt </pre> * Extract the base.txz and kernel.txz to the ufs zfs root to install the base system: <pre> cat /usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C /tmp/mnt cat /usr/freebsd-dist/kernel.txz | tar --unlink -xpJf - -C /tmp/mnt </pre> * Add the initial system configuration: <pre> echo 'if_em_load="YES"' >> /tmp/mnt/boot/loader.conf echo 'sshd_enable="YES"' >> /tmp/mnt/etc/rc.conf echo 'ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.10.70 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 198.100.10.255"' >> /tmp/mnt/etc/rc.conf echo 'defaultrouter="192.168.10.1"' >> /tmp/mnt/etc/rc.conf echo 'hostname="freebsd.example.com"' >> /tmp/mnt/etc/rc.conf echo 'nameserver 192.168.10.1' >> /tmp/mnt/etc/resolv.conf </pre> * Install the bootcode: <pre> gpart bootcode -b /tmp/mnt/boot/pmbr -p /tmp/mnt/boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 </pre> * Create an /etc/fstab file: <pre> vi /tmp/mnt/etc/fstab </pre> #* And add the following: <pre> /dev/ada0p2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ada0p3 / ufs rw 2 2 </pre> * Reboot the system and eject the FreeBSD install disc: <pre> reboot </pre> h2. Resources * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/42773/ * http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html