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  • FreeBSD SPARC (was Re: Solaris testing of C++ library

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to syseng@gfsys.co.uk on Sat Jul 23 17:56:07 2016
    XPost: comp.unix.solaris, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc

    [followup's to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and comp.sys.sun.hardware]
    In article <nn09os$c39$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Chris <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> wrote: >Haven't got that far yet, but one of the reasons for the FreeBSD
    interest is because of the native ZFS support and jails, which
    may get me close enough to Solaris zfs and zones. Originally
    installed 11.0 Alpha 4 early July, but there's now Alpha 6, so
    have put that disk aside as is, put in another and started again
    with the latest release.

    <URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/>

    Does the SPARC install ISO include OpenZFS or do you have to bootstrap
    a new kernel?

    And can you boot ZFS?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

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  • From Chris@21:1/5 to John D Groenveld on Sat Jul 23 22:38:22 2016
    XPost: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc

    On 07/23/16 17:56, John D Groenveld wrote:


    <URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/>

    Does the SPARC install ISO include OpenZFS or do you have to bootstrap
    a new kernel?

    And can you boot ZFS?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

    There's an article here for 9.x which describes a zfs root, here:

    https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/VTOC8ZFSBoot/9.x-RELEASE

    so I guess it must be there on 11.x as well.

    Not attempting that here at present, as the specific goal is to try and
    get gui capability of some sort working. Will fudge a way through
    to that goal, then tidy up, recap and look in depth later :-)...

    Regards,

    Chris

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  • From Chris@21:1/5 to John D Groenveld on Sun Jul 24 23:29:11 2016
    XPost: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc

    On 07/23/16 17:56, John D Groenveld wrote:


    <URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/>

    Does the SPARC install ISO include OpenZFS or do you have to bootstrap
    a new kernel?

    And can you boot ZFS?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

    Haven't looked in enough depth to be sure, but looks like a zfs root is possible, but not as automated as per Solaris install...

    Regards,

    Chris

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