![]() ![]() Now I can just run the following command from my local machine ( brew install wakonlan required) where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Responding to Magic Packets which is indicated by WOL_MAGIC in the options line on ifconfig: ifconfig re0 In FreeBSD you don’t need to do anything as long as WOL is support/enabled in your BIOS and your network device supports Wake-on-LANĪs I want to use WOL to boot my system, I already prepared for the struggle I know from setting this up on linux. I also enabled ntpdate for automatic time synchronization: sysrc ntpdate_enable=YES 3.3. Post installationĪfter I successfully logged in via SSH, I installed pkg, zsh, vim-lite (which is vim-console in newer versions)įor better security I also disabled ChallengeResponseAuthentification (aka password auth) and set up my public key toīe allowed to connect. Then reboot and - viola: working system! 3.2. When it came to the system startup configuration I enabled sshd, powerd and ntpd. At this point I chose to not use encryption for system disk as I can do this on a per-jail basis later on. Pool to a mirror) and called the pool “system” which is essential as I want to create another pool for data storage later Only one system disk without redundancy I used ZFS striping (later on we’ll attach a mirror disk and convert the single-disk I gave the system static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and chose “Guided Root-on-ZFS” for the disk setup. And because I use prebuilt binary packages rather than the ports collection (at least on the host), I didn’t To keep the system footprint as minimal as possible, I did not install any additional components like docs or kernel Supported since 10.3 so I thought it’s time to give it a try. In the bootloader menu I chose “UEFI boot”, as this is ![]() All components are supported and there’s no need to load additionalĭrivers or to do any sysadmin voodoo to get it working. The FreeBSD installation itself is straight forward. “secure boot” option in the UEFI BIOS by changing “Windows UEFI mode” to “Other OS”.Īdditionally, in the advanced setup menu I enabled the “PCIe power” setting to enable Wake-on-LAN for the internal networkĪdapter to allow the system to be booted remotely, which is essential if you don’t have a IPMI module :-) 3. But as the FreeBSD bootloader is not listed, this won’t work. The motherboard I bought uses trusted boot to ensure that I don’t use a bootloader that is corrupted by checking When I first attached the memstick and booted the system, I got the following error: I also chose to disconnect all hard disks except for the system disk to eliminate the risk of accidentally installing Sudo dd if=freebsd-memstick.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=8m Wrote the image file to the disk (please be sure to change the device to the one matching your memory stick): sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 From OS X I unmounted the memory stick and I decided to use the netinstall image of FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 on a memstick. Of this series I already described my intentions and the hardware assembly. Only offers anything you would expect from a file system but is also easy to set up and to maintain. It’s reliable and rock-solid and it’s file system ZFS not : vim-lite is vim-console in FreeBSD 12įreeBSD is the ideal system to use when building a server. ![]()
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