pvaneynd

After a bit of work:

[root@frost ~]# uname -a FreeBSD frost.local 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [root@frost ~]# zpool status pool: zroot state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk2 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors [root@frost ~]# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on zroot 1.4T 329M 1.4T 0% /

Turns out that converting from Debian to FreeBSD isn't that easy: in practice they share no advanced filesystem anymore, so I had to resort to:

tar cf /dev/sdc1 /home/ /root/ /etc/ /Media/ /Backups/

which is not very elegant. Now learning about the wonders of pkg_add and freebsd-update.

First thing: how to compile a kernel only for my hardware...