Pre-install Setup Questions
John Gaskill <[email protected]> Fri, 15 May 2026 17:55:57 +0000 (UTC)
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As a newbie to FreeBSD, I am interested in getting my installation done correctly, providing as much utility to my system as possible. I have not found an answer in the Man pages or Handbook. Maybe one of you knows from experience. Question 1: Can the dvd1 iso be copied to a USB thumb drive and used to boot he install from a UEFI BIOS? My system is a FreeBSD only system with AMD EPYC CPU, 32 GB RAM, a 2 TB SAMSUNG 2280 SSD, and two 500 GB Seagate SSHDs, plus optical drive and multiple USB ports. ASUS PRIME motherboard. Question 2: Will a ZFS RAID configuration see a single SSD (ada0) partitioned into the main boot drive partition (512k) freebsd-zfs 480 GB plus freebsd-swap 20gb, plus three additional logical partitions of 480 GB freebsd-zfs and 5.25 GB freebsd-swap, as one disc drive or four for purposes of calculating the RAID configuration? The two 500 GB drives will be partitioned at 480 GB freebsd-zfs and 20 GB freebsd-swap. Ideally I could then choose a ZFS pool type of raidz3, but it may only be up for raidz1. All thoughts are appreciated. Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer