Re: [SOLVED]Re: How to create ZFS on Root using MBR slices?

> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:13:15 -0500
> From: Jason Garrett <kingedgar_at_gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 19:09, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Jason Garrett<kingedgar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>snip-all
> > >
> > > I have a bit of a problem with the instructions, specifically the part
> > > below...
> > >
> > > 1. Fixit# cd src ; ./install.sh all
> > > 2. Fixit# cd ./kernel ; ./install.sh generic
> > > 3. Fixit# cd /zroot/boot ; cp -rp GENERIC/* ../kernel
> > >
> > >
> > > Line one works fine and as expected. Line two does not work, spits out
> > this
> > > error: cd: can't cd to ./kernel.
> > >
> > > If I run cd ../kernel; ./install.sh generic it does not error, but the
> > next
> > > line does, like this...
> > >
> > >
> > > cp: ../kernel is not a directory
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
> > >
> > The instructions were in error, I have updated them to::
> >
> > 8. install FreeBSD to zroot
> >
> > Fixit# cd /dist/8.0-20090628-SNAP
> > Fixit# export DESTDIR=/zroot
> > Fixit# for dir in base catpages dict doc games info lib32 manpages ports; \
> >           do (cd $dir ; ./install.sh) ; done
> > Fixit# cd src ; ./install.sh all
> > Fixit# cd ../kernel ; ./install.sh generic
> > Fixit# cd /zroot/boot ; cp -rp GENERIC/* /zroot/boot/kernel/
> 
> 
> Thanks!

I really hope someone from the doc project is going to ask Scot for
permission to base an addition to the handbook on this. While this
thread will help people for a while, I think it belongs in  the official
documentation.

Great job, Scot!
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