I've tried installing from remote a dedicated root server bought from http://www.hetzner.de/ (EQ4).
I wanted to do a fresh 8.0-STABLE installation with ZFS as root filesystem, so I was following the http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS for the mirror configuration.
I tested the installation several times on VMs and other machines, and all was ok.
But, when I ask remote console access to the machine for installation, they burn me a DVD iso image of:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201001/FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE-201001-amd64-dvd1.iso
which works perfectly since it's the very same i used for my VM installations, but I have a problem.
FreeBSD boots correctly, i see sysinstall, but when I ask for FIXIT console it tells me it cannot find a LIVEFS environment, as if the DVD was not inserted correctly or he cannot find it.
My best guess is that sysinstall is STUPID and only looks for CD/DVD livefs iso on standard paths (like /dev/acd0), while my DVD ISO is mounted on a non standard path maybe (/dev/acd2 or /dev/whateverdriver0).
I've tried to find a way to 'manually' start fixit mode from holographic shell, but no 'mount' command or 'ln' command to try to give sysinstall /dev/acd0 he maybe is looking for.
Can you help me?
What I need is one of this
A) A way to start fixit mode manually from holographic shell, from a given DVD iso dev path (/dev/acdX or whatever)
OR
B) A way to tell sysinstall where to look for, for finding a LIVEFS environment (maybe some SET variable i can set from holographic shell? like "set LIVEFSDEVICE=/dev/acd2" or whatever.
Can anyone help
I wanted to do a fresh 8.0-STABLE installation with ZFS as root filesystem, so I was following the http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS for the mirror configuration.
I tested the installation several times on VMs and other machines, and all was ok.
But, when I ask remote console access to the machine for installation, they burn me a DVD iso image of:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201001/FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE-201001-amd64-dvd1.iso
which works perfectly since it's the very same i used for my VM installations, but I have a problem.
FreeBSD boots correctly, i see sysinstall, but when I ask for FIXIT console it tells me it cannot find a LIVEFS environment, as if the DVD was not inserted correctly or he cannot find it.
My best guess is that sysinstall is STUPID and only looks for CD/DVD livefs iso on standard paths (like /dev/acd0), while my DVD ISO is mounted on a non standard path maybe (/dev/acd2 or /dev/whateverdriver0).
I've tried to find a way to 'manually' start fixit mode from holographic shell, but no 'mount' command or 'ln' command to try to give sysinstall /dev/acd0 he maybe is looking for.
Can you help me?
What I need is one of this
A) A way to start fixit mode manually from holographic shell, from a given DVD iso dev path (/dev/acdX or whatever)
OR
B) A way to tell sysinstall where to look for, for finding a LIVEFS environment (maybe some SET variable i can set from holographic shell? like "set LIVEFSDEVICE=/dev/acd2" or whatever.
Can anyone help
