and now for something completely different

[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...