While I like the FreeBSD bsdinstall(8) profile named Auto (ZFS) – there is one thing that I really do not like about it. I even submitted a Chan

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2024-11-10 20:00:03

While I like the FreeBSD bsdinstall(8) profile named Auto (ZFS) – there is one thing that I really do not like about it.

I even submitted a Change Default bsdinstall(8) Partition Sizes for Auto (ZFS) Option feature request … but it did not get any interest.

Why? Because sometimes You want to – for example – install FreeBSD without encryption and then add another partition to encrypt it with GELI for example … or for some other stuff or ideas.

Of course I can just install FreeBSD manual way like in good old HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness times … but doing all these just for this one single partition seems to be waste of time.

Finally – after thinking how to solve that – I have found even better and faster way to both install FreeBSD and have the FreeBSD system partition in some small size with another partition(s) allowed after that … and all that in just one command 🙂

Since some time FreeBSD besides providing ISO and IMG images also started to provide VM-IMAGES and CI-IMAGES for each CURRENT/STABLE/BETA/RC/RELEASE version.

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