FreeBSD On Linode - 11.1-RELEASE x64

A Note about image location:

I've now moved it off git LFS because it was annoying and expensive. The image is now hosted at https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/linode-freebsd-img/FreeBSD11/freebsd111-linode.img You'll need to fetch it separately from the contents of the git repo. Granted, without the git-lfs tool installed, you needed to anyway. This simplifies things and makes downloads faster as well.

Table of Contents

1. What is this?
2. Configuration
3. Verification and Integrity Checking
4. Notes
5. Installation
6. Download Link

What is this?

This is a FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE image installed from the 11.1-RELEASE mini-memstick installer. It is meant to be used with a paravirtual KVM Linode from http://linode.com

Filesize is 1536 Mb

Certain changes made to this image will cause some freatures to not work right off the bat with a Full Virtualization Linode.

THIS IMAGE WILL NOT BOOT ON A Xen LINODE.

Configuration

The following changes have been made:

/boot/loader.conf contains these lines

boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
comconsole_speed="115200"
console="comconsole,vidconsole"

Hostname is set to "freebsd111"

ZFS is enabled. To keep the image size down, we have kept the image to 1.5GB The autoexpand=on zpool property has been set on the root zpool, zroot.

This was done by running zpool set autoexpand=on zroot

Once you've dd'd it to the disk you want and made sure the disk is the dize you want, reboot your Linode into your FreeBSD installation, log in, and run these commands:

gpart recover da0
gpart resize -i 2 da0
zpool online -e zroot /dev/da0p2

This will expand your zpool to your full disk size.

Timezone is set to UTC

/!\ /!\ /!\ SSH IS DISABLED BY DEFAULT. PLEASE LOG IN VIA LISH /!\ /!\ /!\

/!\ /!\ /!\ OR GLISH FROM THE REMOTE ACCESS TAB /!\ /!\ /!\

Default root password:

changeme

ZFS Configuration:

Single Disk
Pool Name: zroot
Force 4K Sectors?: YES
Encrypt Disks?: NO
Partition Scheme: GPT
Swap Size: 0 (See Below)
Mirror Swap?: NO
Encrypt Swap?: NO

Swap: Please enable your own swap. Consider a second disk mounted as /dev/da1

You can enable it by running:

swapon /dev/da1

Then add your swap disk to /etc/fstab according to https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html

Default, if you use a swap disk created in the Linode Dashboard, would be:

/dev/da1	none	swap	sw	0	0

Datasets:

Base
lib32
src

Keymap:

Default en-US

Networking:

• Interface is vtnet0
• IPv4 is provided by DHCP
• IPv4 DNS is set to 8.8.8.8
• IPv6 is assigned via SLAAC
• IPv6 DNS is set to 2600:3c03::5 (Newark)

Packages:

pkg has been bootstrapped. No database has been created and no other ports installed.

Verification and Integrity Checking

You can verify integrity of the image by downloading freebsd111-linode.sig from either my github or the fileserver you found this on.

Grab my key (0x7D1919E3) and run gpg --verify freebsd111-linode.sig freebsd111-linode.img

The file was signed by running: gpg --output freebsd111-linode.sig --detach-sig freebsd111-linode.img

Notes

Please note that this file was signed by my work key, as opposed to previous releases. This key was signed by my personal key, and should be considered to be as trusted as my personal key. (How much you trust that, well, that's up to you.)

Installation

Installation is as simple as:

1. Create a new disk.

2. Boot into rescue mode

3. From Rescue Mode, run the following:

   apt-get update

   apt-get install -y ca-certificates

   wget -O - https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/linode-freebsd-img/FreeBSD11/freebsd111-linode.img | dd of=/dev/sda

Download

https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/linode-freebsd-img/FreeBSD11/freebsd111-linode.img