so i ironed out a few things. one, the default installer has some 4k option when creating a mirror for zroot. i guess the usb drives did not agree with that at all. i turned that option off so now they’re working a bit more normal. using 4k blocks was giving me all types of […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 07): attempt
i tossed a couple 8TB disks into it that i had laying around to use for testing. after getting beadm set up and creating a boot environment i started off with cbsd. it works, but the way it works is super sloppy. even though it has been around for years the configuration is definitely not […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 06): beadm
since i have to wait to put disks in i think i can work on some things in the meantime on the freebsd server. first things first. i want to set up boot environments on the freebsd server to make sure i can roll back in case things really come off the rails with updates […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 05): install
so i’m having issues installing freebsd on the 1u supermicro. i’m using two 128GB usb drives to use for booting / os stuff and trid installing onto them mirrored and it panics on first boot. i need to probably pull it out of the rack but it’s a mess right now so it will have […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 04): router
so problem one is that i run opnsense (my router) in a vm on the proxmox server. this is probably not a good idea. i know a lot of people do this and there are some decent reasons to do it (like backing up your router), but i only did it because my original standalone […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 03): hardware
the hardware. currently the proxmox server is a ryzen 3700x on an asrock x570d4u motherboard. as i said earlier: say what you want about asrock but the x570d4u hit all the check boxes when making a cheaper server that supported ecc. i am going to install freebsd on an ancient supermicro 1u running dual xeon […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 02): plan
so this won’t just be a migration from proxmox to freebsd. there are other plans. for instance: i am running opnsense in a proxmox (kvm) vm. it works but this probably isn’t a very sane way to do it. i’m going to move that to some miniforum nuc (with 2 x 2.5gbit nics built in) […]
migrating from proxmox to freebsd (part 01): introduction
so the plan is to migrate from proxmox to freebsd. the goal is to use jails to replace lxc and bhyve to replace kvm. i only run two vms on the proxmox server so that shouldn’t be too big of an issue. but i do run a ton of containers, some of which are kind […]
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